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Hackney & Leigh Win North West Family Business of the Year Award

We have just won the North West Family Business of the Year Award 2022 for Business Services, beating off strong competition from a record number of 186 businesses from across the North West region.

The award was presented on Friday night at The Rum Warehouse in the Titanic Hotel, Liverpool, with food writer and presenter Nigel Barden as the host for the evening.

When announcing the winner, the judges said that “It was clear how much Hackney & Leigh care for the team that work with them, and how culturally, they all live the vision and values of their story as a family business,” going on to add that “It was evident that this was very important to all, and not just as part of growth, but also for the sustainability of their business in the local communities.”

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Economic Update – October 2021

What next? (and no, I’m not talking about the fuel crisis!).

‘What next?’ is a question being asked by many at the moment, and particularly within the housing industry given the ‘triple whammy’ that arrived today.

The combination of the end of the Furlough Scheme, the end of the Stamp Duty Holiday, and the changes for Tenant Evictions, all came to an end overnight, and has left some wondering how it will impact the housing market and wider economy.

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Best Estate Agents Guide 2021/22

It’s official! For the 4th year running we’ve been awarded the highest rating in estate agency in the Best Estate Agents Guide 2021/22!

Each year The Property Academy work alongside Rightmove to create a definitive guide to the best estate agents.

Every agency in the country is rated on their property marketing, customer service and results, through a combination of performance analysis and mystery shopping – we’re very proud to be in the top 5% of the entire country!
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Economic Update – June 2021

This week, we were again privileged to hear the latest thoughts from our friendly behavioural economist Roger Martin-Fagg.

Roger uses his study of human behaviour to predict economic trends, and the impact they will have on UK industries. Regular readers will remember me saying that Roger describes himself as being “…broadly right, the majority of the time…”, and his predications for the last year or so have followed this pattern, despite many of them not being widely held views at the time!

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Market Update

Buying & Selling in a fast-moving market.

Buyers

Firstly, what is a buyer in today’s fast-moving market?

The vast majority of those currently buying, are people who are able to exchange contracts quickly, either because they are first time buyers with a mortgage offer already in place, or because they have sold their own home and are renting (or staying with family), or they simply have the cash to exchange and complete!

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The Budget

Like I am sure many of you, we have been looking at the implications from the Budget announcements on Wednesday, and like us, I suspect most of you thought it didn’t hold too many surprises, given the government’s recent pattern of ‘leaking’ information ahead of time, and then confirming their plans.

Whilst there were lots of very big (and quite scary!) numbers, certainly in terms of the country’s debt, following all of the various support packages for the pandemic, there were also a number of very positive and encouraging signs, with the economy predicted to rebound to pre-covid levels later this year, as the vaccine rollout continues, and life get back to some sort of normality.

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Economic Update

Those of you who are regular readers of our updates, will remember us mentioning our friendly behavioural economist Roger.

During the first lockdown, he was flying in the face of all the doom mongering media and their predictions for a long recession, and instead telling us we were all in for a huge rebound, following the pent-up demand, with everyone starting to spend again as lockdown eased.

As Roger often puts it himself, he is “…broadly right, the majority of the time…”, and certainly in property terms, it appears this was another of those occasions!

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Strange Times…

We are indeed in remarkable times – life changing, very sad, hopeful, frightening, unprecedented (in most people’s lifetime) – and all at the same time!

There are also an increasing number of positive stories staring to circulate; hope around vaccination, schools reopening (yes please!), holidays, and the economy rebounding.

The local property market (both Sales and Lettings) here in our beautiful part of the world are also experiencing unprecedented demand, and can be described with confidence by the word ‘vibrant’ (can you tell I have been helping with home schooling?) – so much so, that some new listings are attracting more than one buyer (six on one home!) who are ready willing and able to proceed, and we are receiving multiple applications on nearly all of the new lettings properties going live!

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