So you’ve got the keys and moved the boxes into your new home? The day you have been waiting for has finally arrived, but what’s next? As well as planning your house decoration projects and maybe even a house- warming, we have created a list of quick and easy after moving house essential tasks whether […]
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Chorley property blog: Nimbyism in Chorley is Dead – Long Live the Planning Permission Rule Changes:
How will this affect the 45,973 Chorley Property Owners? The 1st July 1948 heralded a new dawn in how property was built, as the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 came into force, meaning no property could be built without the say so of the local authority. Now, Boris Johnson has announced a substantial change […]
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There is no doubt that Coronavirus will have an effect on the Local Property Market, but just how? The ensuing economic challenges are going to impact the Chorley (and UK) property market, yet no one knows the real answer. The newspapers eulogise different opinions, but that’s all they are – opinions and everybody’s got a […]
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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 have anxieties that the Brits have not been buying nearly enough homes […]
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There’s a first time for everything, and in this 3-minute easy-read, we share advice on making your property buying debut a successful one. Do you remember when you rode a bike without support for the first time? Or when you learned to swim? And who can forget the moment when the driving examiner turns and […]
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What we have learned in the first month? From talking to most of the Chorley 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 lockdown was lifted from the property market in mid-May. There […]
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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 Tesco without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as the weather. Yet now, […]
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Despite Government regulations that have been in place since the 26 March 2020, when in-person viewings were made illegal, Chorley’s buy to let landlords have during that time been chomping at the bit to build their property empire by looking at buying additional properties for their local buy to let portfolio. There are plenty of investors […]
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Should you wait to buy your first home in Chorley or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all local buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on first-time buyers and what it means directly and indirectly to […]
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, 1,360 Chorley people worked mainly from home, or about 7.9% of Chorley’s 17,314 workforce (compared to the national average of 14.9%). Yet over the last few weeks, many hundreds more Chorley workers have joined them in their spare rooms or at their kitchen or dining room tables. Amongst warnings from […]
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