Blog
24/06/2019
Renting property is not a hobby, it’s a business. Well, that’s the way you should be looking at it. You are providing a service for a valued customer and you need to be professional and provide a great service at all times.
But i... read more »
14/06/2019
Moving home is said to be the third most stressful life event, following a member of your family dying or getting divorced. So it is always best to keep your stress levels down by investigating and doing your homework on both the particular area of S... read more »
05/06/2019
Many Skelmersdale people ponder the best places to invest their hard-earned savings and the best piece of advice I can give you is to do your homework and speak to lots of people. It depends on your attitude to risk versus reward. Normally, the lower... read more »
25/05/2019
A handful of Skelmersdale landlords and homeowners have been asking me what would happen if we had another property crash like we did in 2008/9?
The UK property crash in 2008/9 caused property prices in the UK to drop by an averag... read more »
03/05/2019
Bargains – well yes and no – and let me explain why. To find a bargain you need to know the ‘market’, yet there is not one ‘property market’ in the UK. In fact, the British property market is like a fly’s eye... read more »
17/04/2019
For most Skelmersdale people, a mortgage is the only way to buy a property. However, for some, especially Skelmersdale homeowners who have paid off their mortgage or Skelmersdale buy to let landlords, many have the choice to pay exclusively with cash... read more »
11/04/2019
The proportion of 25 to 34-year olds who own their home in Skelmersdale has nearly halved in the last 20 years, so what does this mean for all the existing Skelmersdale landlords and homeowners together with all those youngsters considering buying th... read more »
21/03/2019
You read the personal finance pages of the newspapers and it all seems to be the impending pensions crisis ... where people aren’t saving enough for their retirement. But it’s not the lack of Skelmersdale peoples’ future pension inc... read more »
05/03/2019
Over the last 5 years, we have seen some interesting subtle changes to the Skelmersdale property market as buying patterns of landlords have changed ever so slightly.
The background to this story was the recently published set of buy-to-let ... read more »
28/02/2019
Skelmersdale property values are currently 1.3% higher than at the end of 2017, notwithstanding the uncertainty and threats over the potential impact of Brexit in 2019. This has exceeded all the predictions (aka guesses) of all the City of London eco... read more »