There are 23.36 million properties in England and Wales with 64% being owner occupied and 36% being rented either from a private landlord, local authority or housing association. Over nine out of ten of those English and Welsh owner-occupied properties are a whole house or bungalow. Now, most people would assume they would be freehold […]
How East Croydon Train Station Affects the Croydon Property Market
24,261,942 People use East Croydon Train Station a year – How does that affect the Croydon Property Market? It might surprise you that it isn’t always the poshest villages around Croydon or the swankiest Croydon streets where properties sell and let the quickest. Quite often, it’s the ones that have the best transport links. I mean, there is […]
Croydon’s housing affordability hits a ratio of 11.74 to 1
A Croydon homeowner emailed me last week, following my article posted in the Croydon Property Blog about the change in attitude to renting by the youngsters of Croydon and how they thought it was too expensive for first time buyers to buy in Croydon. There can be no doubt that buy to let landlords have […]
How The Rented Sector Has Transformed The Property Market In Croydon
How The Rented Sector Has Transformed The Property Market In Croydon The Croydon housing market has gone through a sea change in the past decades with the Buy-to-Let (B-T-L) sector evolving as a key trend, for both Croydon tenants and Croydon landlords. A few weeks ago, the Government released a White Paper on housing. I […]