The UK is currently experiencing its highest inflation rate since the early 1990s. This increase in prices has primarily come about by the combination of an increase in demand for goods and services from consumers following lockdown last year together with global supply chain disruptions. Most economists weren’t too concerned about this increase in the

Everything you need to know about the Bath rental market in February 2022. Reside General Manager Toby Martin summarises rental activity over the last month, with the latest facts and figures from the local market. Reside is an award-winning independent letting agent in Bath. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss any aspect of

Some Bath landlords could face bills of between £11,000 to £14,000 as Michael Gove, the Housing Minister, declared an attack on poor quality private rental homes. 2,114 Bath rental properties could require upgrading. The Government announced in their ‘Levelling Up’ White Paper last week, they plan to introduce a new minimum standard for private rental properties.

Everything you need to know about the Bath rental market in January 2022. This month: just how bad is the Bath property shortage? Tenant demand has far exceeded property supply for the last 12 months, but just what is the extent of this property shortage? As Reside’s Toby Martin discusses in the above video, the number of

The headlines… Bath rents up by 6.5% in the last 12 months Bath house prices up 15.3% in the last 12 months Bath landlords helped by ultra-low mortgage rates and a stamp duty holiday Yet, some landlords anxious about a possible end to no fault evictions New EPC rules could cost landlords £10,000+ per property

Traditionally, if you had not sold your Bath home by the first week in November, you would normally have to wait for the house sellers to return in the famous Boxing Day rush on the portals (Rightmove, Zoopla etc) to get potential buyers interested. Yet matters have been different this year as the various lockdowns