Anyone would think that national news, especially when it comes to talking about the property market, is just focused on London centric. In fact, over the last 5 years, the London property market has really manipulated the UK...

Bargains – well yes and no – and let me explain why. To find a bargain you need to know the ‘market’, yet there is not one ‘property market’ in the UK. In fact, the British property market is like a fly’s eye, it...

Whilst chatting with a local landlord a few weeks ago, I suggested property values in Sidcup would be between 0.3% and 1.1% different by the end of the year. It might surprise some people that Brexit hasn’t had the effect on the...

Over the last 5 years, we have seen some interesting subtle changes to the Sidcup property market as buying patterns of landlords have changed ever so slightly.

The background to this story was the recently published set...

With the Government preparing to control tenant's deposits at five weeks rent, Sidcup landlords will soon only be protected in the event of a single month of unpaid rental-arrears, at a time when Universal Credit has seen some...

Sidcup property values are unexpectedly 1.5% higher than at the end of 2017, notwithstanding the uncertainty and threats over the potential impact of Brexit in 2019. This has exceeded all the predictions (aka guesses) of all...

The conventional way of categorising property in Britain is to look at the number of bedrooms rather than its size in square metres (square feet for those of you over 50!). My intuition tells me that homeowners and tenants are...

For most Sidcup people, a mortgage is the only way to buy a property. However, for some, especially Sidcup homeowners who have paid off their mortgage or Sidcup buy to let landlords, many have the choice to pay exclusively with...

As we go full steam ahead into 2019, it's certain that the Sidcup housing market in 2018 was a little more restrained than 2016 and 2017 and I believe this will continue into 2019. Property ownership is a medium to long term...

You read the personal finance pages of the newspapers and it all seems to be the impending pensions crisis … where people aren't saving enough for their retirement. But it's not the lack of Sidcup peoples' future pension...