All About The Rochester Riverside Development
Hello readers! I nipped out for a walk the other morning as dawn broke around the Rochester Riverside Development – a significant new development for the Medway towns that will bring 1,400 new homes to the local area. My curiosity drove me as I wandered around the part-developed site, taking in the view of a […]
Predictions for 2020 and a review of 2019
Hello readers, first of all may I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year! It’s been a challenging year for property investors and letting agents. We were hit with several difficult pieces of legislation such as the Fitness for Human Habitation act and the Letting Fees Ban, not to mention all the […]
*WARNING* The Government issue “How to Rent Guide” with incorrect date stamp
Gosh, it’s good to be back. It’s been a while since my last post and so much has happened in that time; I hate being away from the blog and sharing all the industry and local news. Undoubtedly the biggest reason for the gap in my posts has been that I was involved in a […]
New year, new start…the merits of Medway are attracting first time buyers
The new year is in full flow already and it’s started with planning my goals and plans for 2019. Anyone who reads my blog with any regularity will know that I like to focus on the positives. I’m a fairly optimistic person and I believe that good things happen to good people. So this year my […]
Beneath the Brexit terror headlines; Medway house prices show annual growth of 11.5%
A few weeks ago I gave you a round up of the Kent Property Market Report. If you didn’t read it, please do. There were a few points I wanted to dig into more, especially the Brexit effect on the Medway market. With the Brexit deadline of 29th March fast approaching, the PM surviving a […]
A 7.3% rise in new builds, prospering business parks + £22m highway investment – The Kent Property Report headlines
This year’s Kent Property Market Report has been published and it is packed full of good news for Medway. It’s a detailed report produced by Caxtons Chartered Surveyors, Kent County Council and Locate in Kent, designed to give a concise appraisal of property development and investment across the county, broken into six key areas of […]
Autumn 2018 Budget update for landlords
Following on from my landlords tax post, the autumn Budget didn’t exactly deliver the good news we had perhaps hoped for. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond has given very little in the way of help for property investors in Medway or anywhere really. Anticipated waivers of Capital Gains Tax for landlords selling to […]
Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax…. Is a landlord tax bill of 66% really a possibility?
Over the past year, the government clampdown on the buy-to-let sector has continued to throw doubt into the minds of investors about the viability of making a decent return on buy-to-let investments. Landlords tax bills are rising and new laws designed to protect tenants – such as the Right to Rent scheme – no doubt […]
Does the new Innovation Park Medway boost reasons to invest in Medway?
It’s all over the local news – the new Innovation Park at Rochester Airport is ploughing ahead. But what we should really focus on is the 1,300 jobs this will create. Because what do jobs mean? Prizes (well, income) for property investors. The park is aiming to be the prime Medway location for high-quality technology, […]
With an 8.5% drop in house sales but a 4.4% rise in house prices, is Brexit actually affecting our market?
The news is currently crammed full of features about the housing market grinding to a halt over the last couple of weeks and certainly, from what I’ve seen, sales have slowed. One associate who put his house in a lovely village in Medway on the market two months ago, has had only two viewings. Some […]
