The Telford housing market has gone through a sea change in the past decades with the Buy-to-Let (B-T-L) sector evolving as a key trend, for both Telford tenants and Telford landlords. A few weeks ago, the Government released a White...

Last week, I wrote an article ‘Generation Rent’ Forever…. on the plight of the Telford 20 something’s often referred to by the press as ‘Generation Rent’. Attitudes to renting have certainly changed over the last twenty years and as my...

Starting with the bigger picture, over the last 12 months in the UK, 1,061,557 properties were sold with a total value of £223.74 bn. To give that some context, ten years ago 1,581,727 properties sold with a total value of...

Recent statistics published by the Office of National Statistics show that there are 267,704 private rented households in the Country that are occupied by people aged 65 and older, meaning 4.39% of OAP’s are living in private rented property. It...

“How much would it cost to buy all the properties in Telford?” This fascinating question was posed by the 14-year-old son of one of my Telford landlords when they both popped into my offices before the Christmas break (doesn’t that...

An Englishman’s Home is His Castle as Maggie Thatcher lauded – everyone should own their own home. In 1971, around 50% of people owned their own home and, as the baby-boomers got better jobs and pay, that proportion of homeowners...