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I don’t know about you, but I find if you read the Daily Mail, there are only three topics that make the blood boil of ‘Middle England’. Bureaucracy from Brussels, House Prices and the late Princess of Wales. Ignoring the late Princess if I can for this article, but...

That isn’t a typo, of the 45,093 households in Rotherham, 15,090 of those properties don’t only have one spare bedroom, but two spare bedrooms! … and it is this topic I want to talk about this week, my Rotherham Property Market Blog readers – because this could be the...

The ‘Right to Buy’ scheme was a policy introduced by Maggie Thatcher in 1980 which gave secure council tenants the legal right to buy the Council home they were living in with huge discounts. The heyday of Council ‘Right To Buys’ was in the 80’s and 90’s, when...

My parents bought their first house in the 1960’s, they were in their early 20’s. Interestingly, looking at some research by the Post Office from a few years ago, in the 1960’s the average age people bought their first house was 23. By the early 1970s, it had reached...

I do like to have a coffee at Swan Lake Tearooms on Rawmarsh Road in Rotherham. Whilst in there, a suited gentleman approached me and asked if I was the person who wrote the newsletters about the Rotherham property market. We ended up having an interesting chat about...