December is an interesting month in the property calendar. It’s a time when we look back at the year just gone and speculate about the 12 months ahead. December 2024 was also a month where serious buyers and sellers didn’t succumb to Christmas distractions.
Yes it’s a cliché but will 2025 be a case of ‘New Year, new home?’ If you are serious about purchasing a property, almost everything will be dictated by your monetary situation. Here’s how to get your finances in order before you start looking for a new home.
The colour experts have spoken and the Pantone Colour of the Year 2025 is……Mocha Mousse. This annual choice is described as a colour that ‘captures the global zeitgeist’, and is a shade we expect to see in fashion, advertising and in our homes.
It is one of the most unusual property phenomena but the Boxing Day bounce is real and potential sellers can prepare for it now.
With stamp duty rates changing for many buyers from 1st April 2025, many movers are stepping up their search for a property at a traditionally quiet time in the market. This sentiment was reflected in Rightmove’s November House Price Index. The portal said the number of sales being agreed is 26% higher now, when compared to the same period in 2023.
November is when winter really arrived. Dark mornings, dark nights, a touch of frost, even a layer of snow. It is also the month many of us will have fired up the central heating for the first time this season.
Data held by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government estimates there are almost 5 million leasehold homes in England alone. As a result, many people buy, and subsequently sell, a leasehold property.
The first Labour Budget for 14 years was a hotly anticipated political event, with rumours swirling in the build-up. Now, with Rachel Reeves safely back in No. 11, we can start digesting the contents. Here is what’s relevant to home movers.
The Guardian recently ran an article celebrating the ensuite bathroom. It highlighted the changing requirements of home movers who are, as a minimum, increasingly requesting an ensuite to at least one bedroom.
Many things have changed since the Covid pandemic but no one would have predicted how two new habits with no direct links to the medical world would radically shift our perspective, perhaps forever. Even more surprisingly, both habits have a direct link to property sales.
The annual ‘colour of the year’ announcements are always eagerly awaited by those who follow interior trends. The first to stick its head above the parapet and make an announcement this year is paint specialist Dulux. Its Colour of the Year 2025 is True Joy.
More rain, less daylight, kids back to school? It can only mean one thing. Autumn is here. September usually marks the start of a peak in the property calendar and 2024 proved no different.
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