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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

So now we are only a matter of a couple of weeks into lockdown, yet can you believe it I am still speaking with agents from all over the UK, and I do not jest, properties are still being sold and let even in these unprecedented times. Yet I would like to address the question […]

The last three or four weeks, unquestionably, have been one of the most life-changing times we have seen since WW2. The imminent threat of the Coronavirus has taken over the world, the UK, Chorley and will challenge you, our families, our relationships and test us all. The drive of this worldwide action of social distancing […]