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Portsmouth Homebuyers & Landlords Set to Save £2,011,880 in Stamp Duty Over Next Nine Months
The British are infatuated with owning their own property and politicians know that. Margaret Thatcher used it as a vote winner in 1979 when she allowed council house tenants to buy their own home. Coming to the present day, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government have anxieties that the Brits have not been buying nearly enough homes […]
PORTSMOUTH RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT – JUNE 2020
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How to add long-term value to your Portsmouth property
In Portsmouth we have certainly been busy with new properties coming onto the market and buyers eager to view. Lockdown has meant we have spent many an hour at home and, as such, you could have been contemplating what improvements you could make. If you think you may sell your home in the future, at NEXA we […]
Buy to Let Landlords and The Housing Crisis
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. If […]
Is This a Good Time to Buy Your First Home in Portsmouth?
Should you wait to buy your first home in Portsmouth or buy now? What sort of mortgages are available? What sort of deposit is required? These are questions all Portsmouth buyers are asking at the moment, yet this week I would like to focus on Portsmouth first time buyers and what it means directly and […]
The Lockdown Landlords of Portsmouth
Despite Government regulations that have been in place since the 26 March 2020, when in-person viewings were made illegal, Portsmouth buy to let landlords have during that time been chomping at the bit to build their property empire by looking at buying additional properties for their Portsmouth buy to let portfolio. There are plenty of investors […]
How kerb appeal could aid a post-lockdown sale in Portsmouth
The restrictions are starting to lift and although it will take a long time before things resemble what they were, there are trickling signs of life returning. Not everyone has had the desire to continue with their plans to move, and others’ decision to find a new home in Portsmouth could be a recent one. […]
7.4% of Portsmouth Workers Worked from Home Before Covid-19 – Wonder How Many More do Now?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, 8,401 Portsmouth people worked mainly from home, or about 7.4% of Portsmouth’s 113,075 workforce (compared to the national average of 14.9%). Yet over the last few weeks many thousands more Portsmouth workers have joined them in their spare rooms or at their kitchen or dining room tables. Amongst warnings from […]
How we are adapting our estate agency NEXA Portsmouth to stay open
How we are adapting our estate agency NEXA Portsmouth to stay open A week of progressive announcements from the Government started to change how we ran our business, and then, with the announcement of a ‘lockdown’, traditional estate agency changed overnight. Our branch in Portsmouth has had to close, yet that doesn’t mean we are […]
The Rights, Obligations & Responsibilities of the 8,980 Portsmouth Landlords & 22,181 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 Portsmouth and will challenge you, our families, our relationships and test us all. The drive of this worldwide action of social […]