According to some newspapers and pundits, the property market boom could soon be over with the increasing interest rates and inflation. In this article, I share the 3 fundamental economic reasons why things are different to the last property market crash. The insider’s way to find out if there will be a property crash. …and

Everything you need to know about the Bath rental market in April 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

The Bath housing market over the last five years has behaved strangely. Bath house prices are 29.4% higher than in 2017, even though during those five years, the British economy had the uncertainty of Brexit and the massive fall in GDP during the pandemic. Yet, a less observed trend is that the net number of

In 1981, 23.8% of properties in Bath (Bath and the North East Somerset District as a whole) were council houses. Today, that figure stands at 3.4%, a proportional drop of 86%. Why has the number of council houses dropped so much in those 40 years? How has that changed the dynamics of the Bath property

Everything you need to know about the Bath rental market in March 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

The average time to find a buyer for a Bath property reduced from 72 days in 2020 to 66 days in 2021. Yet just over 1 in 4 Bath homeowners are still on the market after 12 weeks. Why are so many Bath homes still on the market after all that time, and what does

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