Wigston Property Blog

10/03/2023

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The snow is pretty bad today. 🫤

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Do they need any essential shopping or medication? 💊🍞🥛

19/06/2020

Wigston house prices rose by 13% in the 2 years following the Brexit vote.

Should you wait to buy your first home in Wigston or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all Wigston buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on Wigston first-time buyers and what it means directly and indirectly to Wigston homeowners looking to move up the Wigston property ladder and Wigston buy to let landlords.

Should you wait to buy your first home in Wigston or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all Wigston buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on Wigston first-time buyers and what it means directly and indir...

19/06/2020

Wigston buy to let landlords provide 1,320 Wigston homes
for 3,071 Wigston tenants

Isn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as the weather.

Isn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy to let into the conversation as easily and as often as the weather. Yet now, […]

19/06/2020

In 2019, the private rented sector accounted for just over four and a half million households or 19.9% of UK households, no change from the year before. Interesting, when compared to the proportion of private rented households in the 1980’s and 1990’s, when the proportion of private rented households was stable at around 9.5% to 10.8%...

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-buy-to-let-in-wigston-and-should-wigston-landlords-wigston-homeowners-be-worried/

16/04/2020

New Electrical Safety Regulations could cost each Wigston Landlord £350+ in the next 13 months...

All new tenancies from the 1st July 2020 will need
to have had their electrics tested...

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/new-electrical-safety-regulations-could-cost-each-wigston-landlord-350-in-the-next-13-months/

03/04/2020

Wigston Landlords & Tenants!

The Rights, Obligations & Responsibilities of the 534 Wigston Landlords & 1,320 Tenants During the Virus Outbreak

The last three or four weeks, unquestionably, have been one of the most life-changing times we have seen since WW2. The imminent threat of the Coronavirus has taken over the world, the UK and Wigston and will challenge you, our families, our relationships and test us all.

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/the-rights-obligations-responsibilities-of-the-534-wigston-landlords-1320-tenants-during-the-virus-outbreak/

16/03/2020

Oadby and Wigston’s new home building target was 225 new homes, yet it achieved 399, a surplus of 174 new homes.

Find out more @ https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/wigston-property-market-is-it-time-to-plan-to-get-the-builders-in/

13/03/2020

Get the flags out - all hail Boris as the Conservatives gain their landslide general election triumph - the Boris Bounce is here … or is it?

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/will-there-be-a-boris-bounce-for-the-wigston-property-market/

13/03/2020

Wigston Property Market … the Rollercoaster of the last Decade

The average Wigston property has risen in
value from £143,600 to £214,300 in the last 10 years.

Find out more in our blog @ https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/wigston-property-market-the-rollercoaster-of-the-last-decade/

02/03/2020

If you are buying a home in England costing more than £125,000, you will have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax on the purchase of your new home. In the provinces, it’s called something slightly different, so if you are buying a property in Scotland over £145,000 you will pay Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) and for any property over £180,000 in Wales you will pay Land Transaction Tax (LTT). Whatever the tax is called, it is an important factor when moving, when you consider that

Last year the average UK house buyer paid £10,150 in Stamp Duty Tax alone...

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/wigston-property-market-what-is-going-to-happen-to-stamp-duty-on-11th-march/

02/03/2020

Here are five tips on finding a good Wigston agent. They could save you time, money and a whole lotta stress.

1. Do your research

Letting agents fall into two categories: the good ones, who deliver what they promise; and the bad ones, who milk you dry. To avoid the latter, do your homework and never take an agent at their word...

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/five-tips-to-finding-a-good-leicester-letting-agent/

24/01/2020

61 Wigston Landlords each risk a £5,000 fine in Spring 2020...

https://wigstonpropertyblog.com/61-wigston-landlords-each-risk-a-5000-fine-in-spring-2020/