Some of you reading this will be old enough to remember the 1970s – the bell-bottom trousers, the huge collars, frayed jeans, disco glitter balls, maxi dresses, midi skirts but above everything else – HYPER-INFLATION. With inflation currently standing at 11.1%, many of us envy the last few years when we have been lucky to […]

We are delighted to announce our latest incentive which sees us support the Stratford Foodbank located in the Fred Winter Centre on Guild Street in Stratford. This Christmas is likely to be the most challenging winter the food banks will ever face due to the soaring cost of living meaning more and more people are […]

Doom and gloom in the British property market or clickbait doom-mongers? Newspapers and clickbait 24-7 news websites, desperate for clicks, are peddling a story of a doomsday time for the economy, particularly the property market, as interest rates and inflation create the perfect storm for the UK property market. So, let us look at what […]

Stratford-upon-Avon OAP retirees have to make tough choices with the onset of the cost-of-living crisis. Growing inflation, unpredictable financial markets and the high cost of living mean many former retired Stratford-upon-Avon people are returning to work in what has been dubbed the ‘great unretirement’. Some are even bringing forward their downsizing house move. Looking at […]

With the cost-of-living crisis beginning to hit, the 20 and 30-somethings of Stratford-upon-Avon urgently need the help and support of the Government to help them get on the property ladder. For the last few weeks, we have listened to the debates and hustings of Liz and Rishi. Between them, they have told us how they […]

The predicament of the Stratford-upon-Avon 20 to 30 year olds who rent and their inability to get onto the housing ladder is often discussed in the press. There are 4.43m properties in the UK that are still in the private rented sector (compared to 2.13m in 2002). This group of people in their 20s and […]

The total value of homes owned by Baby Boomers in Stratford-upon-Avon alone is £1,962,933,291 – and two-thirds of the Stratford-upon-Avon Millennials are set to inherit all that in the next few decades! Could this be the answer to the housing crisis? Could Stratford-upon-Avon Millennials live it up for the next few decades, safe in the […]

Even though the average value of a Stratford-upon-Avon first-time buyer property has risen by 316.8% since 1989 to £320,310, the monthly payments Stratford-upon-Avon first-time buyers must make on their mortgages as a proportion of their take-home pay is 40.7% less today compared to 1989. Today, according to the Nationwide Building Society… the average Stratford-upon-Avon first-time […]

166 of the 539 properties on the market in the Stratford-upon-Avon area have had a price reduction in the last 3 months. The average reduction has been 5.6% of the original asking price. This is great news for Stratford-upon-Avon home buyers and Stratford-upon-Avon buy-to-let landlords, strangely Stratford-upon-Avon house sellers as well. The last couple of […]

If you have post-Jubilee blues, let me ask you, how much was the average Stratford-upon-Avon house worth in 1952? To start with, let me look at what a property is worth today in Stratford-upon-Avon. The average price paid for a property in the Stratford-upon-Avon area in the last 12 months was £409,040. Now, let’s go […]