Chipping Norton Property Market to Crash in 2022? 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…
Chipping Norton needs 24 additional private rented properties per year to keep up with current and future demand from Chipping Norton tenants. Yet over the last 5 years, Chipping Norton has lost 24 private rented homes. What are the 5 reasons the supply of private rental properties in Chipping Norton are falling? What does this…
Rents have risen to a record high in the first three months of this year and property website Right Move reports that — for prospective tenants — this is the most competitive rental market it has ever recorded. There is currently strong demand from prospective tenants in the Banbury/North Cotswolds area. Some are wanting to…
The Moreton-in-Marsh housing market over the last five years has behaved oddly. Moreton-in-Marsh house prices are 27.5% 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…
Did you know there are 383 Terraced Houses in Chipping Norton? What is the history behind the humble terraced and why are they so popular with Chipping Norton homeowners and Chipping Norton buy-to-let investors? Read this article to find out more The terraced house is one of the most familiar styles of home in Chipping Norton (and…
In 1981, 23.9% of properties in Stow-on-the-Wold (and the Cotswold District as a whole) were council houses. Today, that figure stands at 1.7%, a proportional drop of 93%. Why has the number of council houses dropped so much in those 40 years? How has that changed the dynamics of the Stow-on-the-Wold property market in those…
115 properties have sold in the Moreton-in-Marsh area in the last 12 months. It only takes 50 days to sell a Moreton-in-Marsh home, so why does it take 104 days from the sold board going up to the buyer getting the keys? With a shortage of solicitors and a sub-standard conveyancing system, this article discusses…
The average time to find a buyer for a Chipping Norton property reduced from 96 days in 2020 to 64 days in 2021. Yet still, just over 1 in 4 Chipping Norton homeowners are on the market after 12 weeks. Why are so many Chipping Norton homes still on the market after all that time,…
How Will Rising Inflation Affect the Stow-on-the-Wold Property Market in 2022? The UK is currently experiencing its highest inflation rate since the early 1990s. This increase in prices has primally come about by the combination of an increase in demand for goods and services from consumers following lockdown last year together with global supply chain…
1 in 42 Homes are Sitting Empty in the Moreton-in-Marsh Area 1,090 homes in the Cotswold area are empty, which represents 1 in 42 homes. 709 of those have been empty for more than six months and are worth £334million. Why are those properties standing empty and deteriorating and why could that become an…