Wendy Peterman

What Wonderful News for our Herne Hill Childrens Musical Adventure Group! We love being part of such an exciting group and what an accolade for them all. Heres what they told us:  We have just been appointed Ensemble In Residence for The Commonwealth Resounds – the music arm of the Commonwealth. It’s a real honour […]

Living in our own homes or owning buy to let property in Herne Hill and the surrounding areas, it’s often easy to ignore the regional and national picture when it comes to property. As a homeowner or landlord in Herne Hill, consideration must be given to these markets, as directly and indirectly, they do have

Over the last twenty years, there has been a shift in the way the Herne Hill (and the UK’s) property market works. In the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, a large majority of twenty somethings saved up their 5% deposit, went without life’s luxuries of going out and holidays etc., for a couple of years

The current average value of a property in Herne Hill currently stands at £791,850 and the base rates at 0.5%. In many of my articles, I talk about what is happening to property values over the short term (i.e. the last 12 months or the last 5 years), but to answer this question we need

My analysis has shown that up to the end of the last quarter, Herne Hill first time buyers purchased 51 Herne Hill properties.  With wages rising at 2.8%, unemployment at a low rate of 4.2% (down from 4.6% from a year earlier and the joint lowest since 1975), national GDP rising at 1.87% and inflation

I am of the opinion that buy to let investment in Herne Hill, in the long-term, will bring substantial returns for landlords, irrespective of latest regulation and tax changes. Taking a very conservative (with a small ‘c’) view, I believe landlords will see a projected net profit of £825,433 per property over the next 25

And if it does … who will be the winners and losers? Those Herne Hill people wanting property values to drop would be those 30 or 40 something’s, sitting on a sizeable amount of equity and hoping to trade up (because the percentage drop of your current ‘cheaper’ property will be much less than the

The Millennials were born between the mid 1980’s and late 1990’s thus making them between the age of around 22 to late 30’s. They are the imaginative, artistic youngsters who grew up with the newest tech and computers and who are huge aficionados of music festivals, gourmet pizzas, emoji’s, selfies and old school nostalgia. Also

Beast from the East, Russia, Facebook, Brexit, Trump, House prices up, House prices down … the Press is full of column inches on Brit’s favourite subjects of politics, scandal, weather and not forgetting (and I appreciate the irony of this!) the property market. As an agent belonging a national group of letting and estate agents,