Helen has been a landlord for over 15 years, and together, with John has built up a substantial property portfolio. Helen loves to keep on top of current legislation by attending training courses and lettings events on a regular basis. John and Helen have 5 children ranging in age from teenagers to toddlers, so in the little spare time Helen gets, she enjoys long walks in the country and holidays.
In the latest, and most recently published, set of UK mortgage data (for November 2019) 18,470 pound-for-pound re-mortgages were made (i.e. the borrower went from one…
I am asking Derek Twigg, the Labour MP for Halton, to remind the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to use their persuasive skills to…
Ah, the 2010’s, the tens, the teens – I am not sure what we are supposed to call the decade that has just gone. No matter…
Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, Halifax, announced in early January that there was a ‘Boris Bounce’ in the national property market as they stated national property values…
‘Washing Machine Energy Ratings for Houses’ was the phrase one Runcorn landlord told me a few years ago when we were talking about the colour bar…
Have the baby boomers (people between the ages of 55yo to 75yo) messed things up for the millennials in terms of getting on the Runcorn property…
With the general election almost upon us and having been asked by a number of Runcorn homeowners and landlords what the different main parties would do…
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was voted in on a Tory landslide with the ‘right to buy your own council house’ being a mainstay of Conservative policy.…
I was having a thought-provoking conversation with a Runcorn buy-to-let landlord a few weeks ago about everything to do with property, Brexit and how the reported…
Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings-on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging…