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How Much Deposit Do I Need to Buy a Home in Herne Hill?

Buying a property isn’t a snap decision (for most of us!). It is one of the largest financial commitments many people will ever make. When you take out a mortgage to purchase a property, you will put...

Renting for Longer: What the Latest Data Tells Us About Today’s Tenants

People are renting for longer. For some, it’s now a deliberate choice – renting long term is seen as a modern option, proactively elected by many young people who baulk at the high prices property has...

Don’t Just Take the Best Offer – Take the Best Buyer

I’ve been around long enough to remember when you could sell a house with a handwritten card in the newsagent’s window – let alone a Polaroid image of the property glue-sticked onto an A4...

How to Prepare Your Herne Hill Home for Sale

When it comes to selling your property, first impressions matter – especially in a select property market like Herne Hill. Buyers decide within minutes whether a house feels right – in fact, some...

Reading Between the Headlines: Making Sense of the Herne Hill Property Market

It’s the end of another week. Like most weeks, there have been a series of different property market headlines some of which entirely contradict each other! Sometimes those contradictions might even...

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Buying a property isn’t a snap decision (for most of us!). It is one of the largest financial commitments many people will ever make. When you take out a mortgage to purchase a property, you will put...
People are renting for longer. For some, it’s now a deliberate choice – renting long term is seen as a modern option, proactively elected by many young people who baulk at the high prices property has...
I’ve been around long enough to remember when you could sell a house with a handwritten card in the newsagent’s window – let alone a Polaroid image of the property glue-sticked onto an A4...

How is the “Exodus” of Eastern Europeans Affecting the Herne Hill Property Market?

I was having a thought-provoking conversation with a Herne Hill buy-to-let landlord a few weeks ago about everything to do with property, Brexit and how the reported voluntary repatriation of Eastern...

The £592 million mortgage debt of West Dulwich homeowners

Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging...

9,763 People Live in Rented Accommodation in Herne Hill

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...

Labour Party’s U-turn on the £1.1bn grab on Dulwich Village landlord’s wallets

Well, with the General Election just over the horizon and having been asked by a number of Dulwich Village homeowners and Dulwich Village buy to let landlords what the different main parties would do...