Rotherham Property Market Research

In the last few months, the Rotherham (and UK) property market has resisted and flouted every economist’s prediction. With the economy a shadow of its former self, unemployment set to hit 11.9%, the Government on track to borrow nearly half a trillion pounds to pay...

12 months ago, the unemployment rate in Rotherham stood at 3.5% of the working population, yet with Coronavirus hitting the UK, what impact will this rise in unemployment have on the Rotherham property market? As I have discussed a number of times in my articles on...

Looking back at the Rotherham property market for 2020, it certainly can be seen as a frenetic game of two halves, albeit with a very long half time in the spring. Between the General Election in mid-December and Christmas, many Rotherham agents saw an unusually...

There is no doubt that Coronavirus will affect the Rotherham property market, but just how? The ensuing economic challenges are going to impact the Rotherham (and UK) property market, yet no one knows the real answer. The newspapers eulogise different opinions, but...

The British are infatuated with owning their own property and politicians know that. Margaret Thatcher used it as a vote winner in 1979 when she allowed council house tenants to buy their own home. Coming to the present day, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government...

What have we learned in the first month? From talking to most of the Rotherham estate and letting agents and our own findings, it might surprise many of you that new enquiries from homebuyers, tenants, landlords and home sellers have been at record levels since...

Isn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as...