Drewery team

Freehold or Leasehold .. which is best? Well, when buying a property in the UK there are two main types of ownership – freehold and leasehold and, when boiled down, they mean the following...

Freehold: The person who...

Well, with the General Election just over the horizon and having been asked by a number of Sidcup homeowners and Sidcup buy to let landlords what the different main parties would do to the local property market, in this...

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was voted in on a Tory landslide with the ‘right to buy your own council house’ being a mainstay of Conservative policy. She encouraged people to buy their own council flats and houses, although...

The British housing market has never been so newsworthy. Every other day, there is an article in the newspaper or online about impending house price drops, house price rises, building on the green belt, mortgage rates up/down,...

The Government’s Annual Housing Survey is 50 years old this year. It has taken a snapshot of the UK’s property market every year since 1969 and in the recently published report for 2018, it wasn’t a surprise that...

The foundations of the Sidcup Property Market over the summer have continued to be principally sound, yet the existing political macroclimate means that the critical element of consumer confidence has been reduced and that is...

Has England’s green and pleasant land all of a sudden become England’s green and overcrowded land?

With the nation’s ever-increasing population and the double whammy that people are now living longer, this means as...

The need for more homes has always been one of the biggest issues with regard to the Country’s housing crisis. One of the main reasons for families wanting to move home is the need for more accommodation as their families...

Lots of people say moving home is one of the top ten most stressful events in your life. Fortunately, there is a way to mitigate your stress. In a nutshell, start as early as you can, plan ahead and do everything you can to...

Looking back at the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landing a few months ago, it reminded me of the huge changes that have happened to Sidcup and more specifically the Sidcup property market since WW2. Back in 1946, the average...