A few weeks ago I was asked a fascinating question by a local Councillor who, after reading the Horsham Property Blog, emailed me and asked me – “Are Horsham Landlords meeting the Challenges of tenanted families bringing up their families in Horsham?” What interesting question to be asked. Irrespective of whether you are tenant or…
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27 August 2016 Property News
942% – Rise in Horsham Property Prices since 1981
Roll the clock back 35 years to 1981, and Mrs. T was in power, we had 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…
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26 August 2016 Horsham
The Horsham Love Affair with its 4,000 Terraced Houses
Call me old fashioned, but I do like the terraced house. In fact, I have done some research that I hope you will find of interest my Horsham property market blog reading friends! In architecture terms, a terraced or townhouse is a style of housing in use since the late 1600’s in the UK, where…
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23 August 2016 Property News
What will the 0.25% Interest Rate do to the Horsham Property Market?
I had an interesting chat with a Colgate landlord who owns a few properties in the town. He popped his head in to my office as his wife was shopping in the area (and let’s be honest talking about the Horsham Property Market is a lot more interesting than clothes shopping!). We had never spoken…
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15 August 2016 Property News
10,700 People Live In Every Square Mile Of Horsham – Is Horsham Over Crowded?
Horsham is already in the clutches of a population crisis that has now started to affect the quality of life of those living in Horsham. There are simply not enough homes in Horsham to house the greater number of people wanting to live in the town. The burden on public services is almost at breaking…
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10 August 2016 Horsham, Property News
New House Building in Horsham slumps by 22.3% in the last year
Let me speak frankly, even with Brexit and the fact immigration numbers will now be reduced in the coming years, there is an unending and severe shortage of new housing being built in the Horsham area (and the UK as a whole). Even if there are short term confidence trembles fueled by newspapers hungry for…
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3 August 2016 Horsham
85.6% of Horsham Properties have 3 or more bedrooms – Problem or Opportunity?
The orthodox way of classifying property in the UK is to look at the number of bedrooms rather than its size in square metres (although now we are leaving the EU – I wonder if we can go back to feet and inches?). It seems that homeowners and tenants are happy to pay for more…
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1 August 2016 Horsham, Property News
Post Brexit – Horsham Property Prices set to drop £35,500 in the next 12 months?
Even the most sane person in Britain has to admit the Brexit vote will, in one shape or another, affect the UK Property market. Excluding central London which is another world, most commentators are saying prices will be affected by around 10%. So looking at the commentators’ thoughts in more detail, property values in Horsham…
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30 July 2016 Horsham
28.1% Of Horsham Homes Are One Person Households
I was having an interesting chat with a Horsham buy to let landlord the other day when the subject of size of households came up in conversation. For those of you who read my Brexit article published on the morning after the referendum, one of the reasons on why I thought the Horsham property market…
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25 June 2016 Horsham, Property News
Population in the Horsham area set to rise to 154,000 by 2036
Horsham faces a predicament. The population is growing and the provision of new housing isn’t keeping up. With the average age of a Horsham person being 42.1 years (compared to the South East average of 40.0 years old and the national average of 39.4 years of age), the population of Horsham is growing at an…
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