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For most Herne Hill people, a mortgage is the only way to buy a property. However, for some, especially Herne Hill homeowners who have paid off their mortgage or Herne Hill buy to let landlords, many have the choice to pay exclusively with cash. So the question is, should you use all your cash, or […]

As we go full steam ahead into 2019, it’s certain that the Herne Hill housing market in 2018 was a little more restrained than 2016 and 2017 and I believe this will continue into 2019. Property ownership is a medium to long term investment so, looking at the long-term, the average Herne Hill homeowner, having

You read the personal finance pages of the newspapers and it all seems to be the impending pensions crisis … where people aren’t saving enough for their retirement. But it’s not the lack of Herne Hill peoples’ future pension incomes that are my immediate concern. The fact is that so many of the future retirees

With constant advances in technology, medicine and lifestyles, people in the Herne Hill area are, on average, living longer than they might have a few decades ago. As Herne Hill’s population ages, the problem of how the older generation are accommodated is starting to emerge. We, as a borough, have to consider how we supply

It’s now commonly agreed amongst economists and the general public that the dramatic rise in Herne Hill property prices of the last six years has come to an end. Read the National newspapers, and they talk of doom and gloom in the British housing market with such things as strained buyer affordability (as property prices

Following on from my last article, if you recall I said that Norwood Road had the most properties sold in the SE24 Herne Hill postcode, yet I felt that this information wasn’t telling the whole story, as some roads in Herne Hill have more properties on them than others. Therefore, I promised that I would

Many folks say moving home is the most stressful thing. Moving home is like someone (and that someone is usually you and you are the cause of this devastation) has collected all your worldly goods, put them into brown boxes and into a lorry making your whole life look like a Amazon delivery van, only

A few months ago, I wrote an article on the Herne Hill Property Blog about the length of time it took to sell a property in Herne Hill and the saleability of the different price bands (i.e. whether the lower/middle or upper local property markets were moving slower or quicker than the others). For reference,

“I just love looking over and keeping up to date with the 108 pieces of legislation that govern the rental of residential property in the UK” …No Herne Hill Landlord, ever If you are one of the 776 Herne Hill landlord’s (or an SE24 landlord to be precise) that manages your own property, would it

What is it to be British? Our stubbornness, long-suffering stoicism, our vexation at injustice, our obsession with football and rugby, we are weather obsessed external awkward noncommittal modest people whilst underneath seething like a volcano because someone jumped the queue….. and our No.1 obsession is with the property ladder. This ‘love affair’ with owning our own