In 2019, the private rented sector accounted for just over four and a half million households or 19.9% of UK households, no change from the year before. Interesting, when compared to the proportion of private rented households in the 1980’s and 1990’s, when the...
Isn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as...
Should you wait to buy your first home in Lewisham or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all Lewisham buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on Lewisham first time buyers...
Despite Government regulations that have been in place since the 26 March 2020, where face-to-face viewings were made illegal, Lewisham buy to let landlords have during that time been chomping at the bit to build their property empire by looking at buying additional...
An immediate fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic is that it has placed many Lewisham families house moves on hold. Government guidelines state all home buyers and home sellers who are in the process of selling their Lewisham home and moving to a new home must adapt to...
Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, 1,808 Lewisham people worked mainly from home, or about 7% of Lewisham’s 22,522 workforce (compared to the national average of 14.9%). Yet over the last few weeks many hundreds, even thousands more Lewisham workers have joined them in...
Lewisham Electricians are going to very busy in the next 13 months as they will have to test the electrics of every private rented property in Lewisham and potentially may have to install new fuse boards and wiring in some circumstances. New regulations set out in the...
The last three or four weeks, unquestionably, have been one of the most life-changing times we have seen since WW2. The imminent threat of the Coronavirus has taken over the world, the UK and Lewisham and will challenge you, our families, our relationships and test us...
Even though the new legislation was placed on hold because of the recent General Election, it is expected the Government will start fining around half of all UK local authorities for failing to build enough new homes as Westminster starts to force local authorities to...
If you are buying a home in England costing more than £125,000, you will have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax on the purchase of your new home. In the provinces, it’s called something slightly different, so if you are buying a property in Scotland over £145,000 you will...
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