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 […]

Should you buy now or wait for the bargains? Many commentators believe we have seen the peak of the Stratford-upon-Avon property market. So, should savvy bargain hunters wait for Stratford-upon-Avon house prices to fall? Or could postponing your house buying for any anticipated Stratford-upon-Avon house price drop be a costly mistake? Over the last two […]

According to some newspapers and pundits, the property market boom could soon be over with the increasing interest rates and inflation. In this article, I share the 3 fundamental economic reasons why things are different to the last property market crash. The insider’s way to find out if there will be a property crash. … […]

Stratford-upon-Avon needs 114 additional private rented properties per year to keep up with current and future demand from tenants. Yet over the last 5 years, Stratford-upon-Avon has lost 157 private rented homes. What are the 5 reasons the supply of private rental properties in Stratford-upon-Avon are falling? What does this mean for tenants and landlords […]

The Stratford-upon-Avon housing market over the last five years has behaved oddly. Stratford-upon-Avon house prices are 32.2% higher than in 2017, even though during those five years, the British economy had the uncertainty of Brexit and the massive fall in GDP during the pandemic. Yet, a less observed trend is that the net number of […]

The terraced house is one of the most familiar styles of home in Stratford-upon-Avon (and the UK as a whole). 21.5% of Stratford-upon-Avon people live in a terraced home, interesting when compared with the national average of 22.7%. So, what is it about the humble terraced/townhouse us Brits love so much? In this article, I […]

In 1981, 23.8% of properties in Stratford upon Avon (and the Stratford-upon-Avon District as a whole) were council houses. Today, that figure stands at 1.1%, a proportional drop of 95%. Why has the number of council houses dropped so much in those 40 years? How has that changed the dynamics of the Stratford upon Avon […]