Traditionally, if you had not sold your Lincoln home by the first week in November, you would normally have to wait for the house sellers to return in the famous Boxing Day rush on the portals (Rightmove, Zoopla etc) to get potential buyers interested. Yet matters have been different this…
House prices tend to rise with inflation, so with UK annual inflation hitting 4.2% last week, that’s good news, isn’t it? Yes and no – let me explain what it means for Lincoln homeowners. The year-on-year cost of living rose by 4.2% in October, its highest rate in almost a…
In recent articles on the Lincoln property market, I have been talking a lot about house prices over the last 12 months and 5 years in Lincoln. When it comes to newspapers talking about the property market, the headline most people look at is what is happening to house prices.…
How far would you go to help your child get on in the world? Many Lincoln parents move area to ensure their child gets into the best primary school, or to fund their university costs. Many of you reading this have even helped your children with the deposit for their…
With grocery, energy and other household prices/costs rising and hitting everyone’s back pocket, inflation (rising prices) may feel like an unimportant issue when it comes to the cost of keeping a roof over your head. Yet nothing could be further from the truth for many Lincoln homeowners and Lincoln landlords.…
The stamp duty tax holiday is over, furlough finished at the end of September, unemployment is due to rise, and inflation is rife … is this the end of the post lockdown Lincoln property boom? Surely, we are heading for house price correction? Forecasting what will happen in the Lincoln…
The number of properties for sale in Lincoln has fallen by 39% since this time two years ago (October 2019). One of the reasons is that many Lincoln buyers feel overwhelmed and fearful they will be made homeless if they sell their home and can’t buy another. So, I have…
The property market continues to ride the wave as we head into autumn. Buyer demand per property is more than double pre-pandemic levels (Rightmove). Rightmove report a 14% increase in new listings at the start of September*, but the number of available properties for sale remains low and competition for…
Homes sold with an EPC rating A or B over the past years achieved a 10% price premium over properties with an EPC energy efficient rating of D. One in every 12 properties sold achieved an energy efficiency rating of A or B on its EPC, 47% of properties…
A recent report by Legal & General stated that since the pandemic, many older homeowners had put their plans to move home ‘on ice’. It said that fewer OAP homeowners are planning to downsize from their large family homes after the pandemic made them realise the actual value of their…
Hello, and welcome to another Lincoln Property Blog, brought to you by Ben from Walters of Lincolnshire, following on from our earlier Social Media post on the average size of a bungalow and how it varies significantly across the UK, this week we look at The Great Lincoln Bungalow: Why…
As we are now half way through 2025, it’s certain the Lincoln housing market has been more restrained than the post pandemic 24 months of summer 2020 through to July/August of 2022, and I believe that the ‘steady as she goes’ outlook will continue into the rest of 2025 and…
In early 2023, most property forecasters anticipated a significant downturn in the UK housing market over the following two years. Halifax predicted an 8% drop in house prices, Savills went further at 10%, and Nomura Bank predicted a fall of up to 15%. While these gloomy forecasts grabbed headlines, the…