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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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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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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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.

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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!).

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