Post lockdown, the need for Chorley families who want bigger homes has meant local homebuyers must now to pay considerably more to trade up to that larger home… One thing that has come out of lockdown has been the inexorable movement of Chorley households wanting to upsize to a larger home. Often considered to be […]
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The Chorley property market is an enigma and chock-full of contradictions. Notwithstanding an economic recession and forecasts of property values dropping, nobody seems to have informed the local homeowners selling their homes and those people looking to buy them. As I have discussed in many recent articles on the locality, the Chorley property market is […]
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With around 1 in 4 local house sellers actually selling their home in the last month, Chorley home sellers and buyers will need to continue to be pragmatic if the surprisingly strong current levels of activity in the Chorley property market are to be sustained. To start, we had the once in a lifetime event […]
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Buying or selling a property can sometimes be stressful. It can even cause you sleepless nights. At Forbes Estate Agents we do all we can to insulate our clients from any unnecessary stress. Our years of successful experience in helping people to move homes means there’s hardly anything we’ve not come across and dealt with […]
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One question we get asked a lot is ‘do I need a board outside my property?’ We never force our sign boards on any of our clients. It’s totally their choice and we understand that some people don’t like or want them outside their property. But speaking from years of experience selling and letting homes […]
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Going into lockdown in March, the Government proclaimed a ban on tenant evictions, pledging that no tenant in a private rented home, who had lost their wages due to Covid-19 would be kicked out of their private rented home until the late summer. Fast forward to August and the press were being briefed as late […]
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Talking of price, or more specifically the asking price. There is a window of opportunity for Chorley homeowners to take advantage of this stamp duty tax cut, yet don’t let local estate agents curry favour with you by tempting you with a high initial asking price to win the right to put their for sale […]
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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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