Anyone would think that national news, especially when it comes to talking about the property market, is just focused on London. In fact, over the last 5 years, the London property market has really manipulated the UK on averages to such an extent that many lenders like the Halifax and Nationwide publish two indices, a national one without London and one with.

The proportion of 25 to 34-year olds who own their home in Wilmslow has nearly halved in the last 20 years, so what does this mean for all the existing Wilmslow landlords and homeowners together with all those youngsters considering buying their first home?

Bargains – well yes and no – and let me explain why. To find a bargain you need to know the ‘market’, yet there is not one ‘property market’ in the UK.

A few weeks ago, I suggested property values in Wilmslow would be between 0.9% and 1.9% different by the end of the year. It might surprise some people that Brexit hasn’t had the effect on the Wilmslow property market that most feared at the start of 2018.

The conventional way of categorising property in Britain is to look at the number of bedrooms rather than its size in square metres (square feet for those of you over 50!).

With constant advances in technology, medicine and lifestyles, people in the Northwich area are, on average, living longer than they might have a few decades ago.