This blog follows the property market in Colchester and the surrounding district. You’ll find tips, guidance and analysis that relates specifically to properties in and around Colchester. If you are thinking of buying or selling a property, or would like some impartial advice, please get in touch. To keep up to date with the Colchester property market, including buy-to-let and investment properties please subscribe.
A few weeks ago I received an interesting email, related to tenancy length, from a Colchester Councillor asking me: “Are Colchester landlords meeting the challenges of tenanted families bringing up their families in Colchester?” Irrespective of whether you are tenant or a homeowner bringing up a family the most important factors are security and stability … Read more
I had an interesting chat with a Stanway landlord who owns a few properties in and around Colchester. We had never spoken before (he uses another Colchester property agent to manage his properties) but, after reading my Colchester property market blog for a while, the landlord wanted to know my thoughts on how the recent … Read more
With many Colchester tenants not able to buy their own property, my research suggests the increasingly important role the private rented sector plays housing people who need a roof over their head. At a time when first time buyers are finding it harder than ever to afford their own property and social housing providers (local … Read more
Even the most sane person in Britain has to admit the Brexit vote will, for better or worse, affect the UK Property market. Excluding central London, which is another world, most commentators broadly agree prices will be adversely affected by around 10%. Looking at commentators’ thoughts in more detail, Colchester property values will be 10% … Read more
Just a few months since Brexit and we’re settling into Autumn with the Great British Bake Off, Strictly and the new football season. Newspapers continue to publish the news according to the world view of their owners while the stock market is up and Sterling is down. Meanwhile I remain focused on most Brit’s favourite … Read more
Roll the clock back 35 years to 1981 when Thatcher was in power, there was a Royal Wedding, Britain won the Ashes and Bucks Fizz won Eurovision with ‘Making your Mind up’. Haven’t things changed? The number of homeowners and property investors who said they wish they had hindsight and bought up every house in … Read more
As the trees turn from green to hues of red and brown, Colchester property values and the property market has a confident feel to it. With the underlying fundamentals of a continued lack of properties being built, a shortage of properties (both in terms of quantity and quality) coming to the market and the continued … Read more
I was having an interesting chat with a Colchester buy to let landlord looking to invest in more private rental properties the other day when the subject of the size of households came up in conversation. Post Brexit one of the reasons I think the Colchester property market will, in the medium to long term, … Read more
Is this a Problem or an Opportunity? The orthodox way of classifying Colchester properties (and UK wide) is to count the number of bedrooms rather than the size of the house in square metres (although now we are leaving the EU – I wonder if we can go back to feet and inches?). It seems … Read more
Is Colchester Over Crowded? Colchester is already in the clutches of a population crisis that has now started to affect the quality of life of those living in Colchester. There are simply not enough homes in Colchester to house the greater number of people wanting to live in the town. The burden on public services … Read more