Hello, and welcome to my CW6 market update for March 2019. I’ll be producing one of these every month to keep you up to date with exactly what’s going on in your local housing market. Please like and share so that other local people can also be kept up to date.

Hello, and welcome to my CW9 market update for March 2019. I’ll be producing one of these every month to keep you up to date with exactly what’s going on with your local housing market. Please like and share so other local people can also be kept up to date.

A great way to take a quick snapshot of the market to see how buoyant things are is to compare the percentage of properties that are under offer to the total amount of houses on the market.

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.