It’s official!
Hackney & Leigh is one of the very best Estate Agents in the country!
For the 3rd year in a row, we have been independently identified as one of the top estate agents in the country, and again feature in the Best Estate Agent Guide.
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What draws people to want to live here?
Some are fortunate enough to be deemed locals – lucky them! Some are clever enough to have worked out why it’s one of the best places in Britain to live (and work!). Some have yet to make the decision to start to enjoying one of England’s finest areas and call it home for themselves and their family.
So what can you do here that is so different?
Continue reading » “What draws people to want to live here?”
New Office in Penrith Now Open!
Well hello again!
FIRSTLY…
We have just, this week, opened our NEW OFFICE in the market town of PENRITH!
This now gives Buyers and Sellers and Landlords and Tenants NINE places to pop in and see us, and obtain the very best agency service in the region.
Stamp Duty Holiday Part 2
Stamp duty holiday for 265 days from today!
Well we didn’t imagine that the esteemed Chancellor Rishi Sunak would this week, provide us with a really positive, helpful, and cost saving topic for the local and national property market – but he did bless him!
As many of you will already know our local property market is generally buoyant, and in some areas extremely active. Those who follow these updates will have seen last week’s that referred to simply excellent activity and results in June (in several of our offices they were better than June 2019!).
Stamp Duty Holiday
Breaking News – Stamp Duty Holiday
The government have announced they are increasing the threshold at which you start paying Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) from £125,000 to £500,000 with immediate effect!
This could save you thousands on your purchase.
The stamp duty holiday applies from midnight last night, which means that anyone completing a purchase of a main residence today will still get the benefit. (Which could be worth nearly £15,000 for a property priced at just under the £500,000 top limit!).
Those people buying a home over the £500,000 limit, will save on the SDLT due up to half a million pounds, but will still have to start paying the duty at 5% for the amount paid above £500,000, rising to 10% and 12% for the most expensive properties.
It is estimated the tax break will cost the Treasury £3.8bn, and is due to last until March 2021.
For further advice, please contact us today and see if we can help find you your next home.
The New Normal
Here we are at the beginning of July – it seemed so far away back in March didn’t it?
We have talked to you on many topics since the start of the pandemic, some of which we hope were useful!
We have also been criticised by some who were of a mind to believe what they read in the papers, where doom and gloom were being preached, and we even lost a sale as a result of a buyer being given negative advice (as it turns out, it was from a professional advisor!).
Preparation… Part 4 (Tenants)
Hello again!
This week we have the final instalment of the four principle areas of property activity, Selling, Buying, Letting, and Renting a property.
This week our thoughts and comments are aimed at those seeking to Rent a property and make their home.
What a Week!
It started with 15 offers on Monday alone, and has just carried on! (at the time of writing it currently stands at 60 – at this rate we are going to run out of property to sell!!).
But we digress, and this week as promised, we continue with our thoughts, comments, and advice, to existing and would be Landlords of residential property, across this wonderful region.
Preparation… Part 2 (Buyers)
Hello again, and we do hope you have had a good and safe week.
Following on from our comments for those selling their homes, we now move on to our thoughts for Home Buyers (Purchasers), and using our experience, hope to offer some comments and insight that will be both useful, and even interesting, to those seeking to buy a home, whether it be for the first time, a change to a bigger or smaller home, or as will be perhaps the case for many, that you have decided to move to a new location or area where you want to live – work – retire or holiday in!
(Even the national press has started to comment on the changing agenda of some property seekers, who are now targeting areas to live in that they may not have done just a couple of months ago!).
Preparation…
No economic tutorial this week! (thank goodness you say!)
Instead, we thought we would share with you our thoughts, and offer guidance, based on our experience as property agents over many a year (more than 50 for some of the team!), in the world of residential property in its many guises.