Brixton Property Market
What is going to happen to Stamp Duty on the 11th March and how will affect the value of your Brixton Property?
3% additional Stamp Duty surcharge on non-UK resident buyers?
Some are asking if Sunak will impose what was promised with the 3% additional Stamp Duty surcharge on non-UK…
That number surprised you didn’t it? With the General Election done, I thought it time to reflect on renting in the manifestos and party-political broadcasts and ask why?
As the best way to tell the future is to look at to the past, so we decided to look at the number of…
Over the past five years, the thumbscrews on the buy to let market for British (and de facto) Brixton investors have slowly turned with new barriers and challenges for buy to let investors. With the change in taxation rules on mortgage relief starting to bite plus a swathe of over 320…
Brixton Property Market Update Summer 2019
With record low interest rates at 0.75%, low unemployment rates of 3.8%, and decent mortgage availability, Brixton buyers have a lot going in their favour, aside from the perceived political uncertainty. Even those with low deposits – there were 224 mortgage deals available on the day…
41.1% of Brixton OAP’s own their own home … and they are worth £581.3m
Yes, that number is staggering isn’t it ….
Of the 2,708 households in Brixton where the head of the household is 65 years or older, an astounding 1,113 (or 41.1%) of those are owned, which is far below the national average…
In 1979, more than 4 in 10 British people lived in a council house, yet today that figure is only 1 in 12!
According to Shelter 65% of families on the Council House waiting lists had been on those lists for more than a year and 27% had been waiting for more…
Improving the energy efficiency of Britain’s 27.2 million homes, which are responsible for more than a quarter of the country’s CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, is seen as key to tackling the issues of climate change, fuel poverty and our country’s energy security.
This is particularly important as in June the Government announced they…
Do We Have the Right Sort of Brixton Homes For the 21st Century?
Would it surprise you to know that in some parts of Brixton, predominantly prosperous areas with high proportions of mature residents, the housing crisis is not one of supply so much as dispersal of that supply? Theoretically, in Brixton there are…
5.4% of all Properties Sold in Brixton are New Builds
Brixton residents might be surprised that only 5.4% new builds were sold in Brixton, when new builds seem to be everywhere!
New development completed this year on the site of a former council office, which offers 94 new homes in the centre of Brixton, 40%…
One of the key factors of the health of the Brixton property market is the number of properties for sale at any one time. The issue with housing is that when demand goes up, unlike with a chocolate bar factory, who can add a couple of hours overtime to increase supply/production to satisfy demand, it…
