Black Grace Cowley - Isle of Man estate agents

Humming the ’12 Days of Christmas’ won’t get your house on the market, but if you’ve decided that Christmas 2018 will be the last festive celebration in your current home, then following the 12 steps below will put you in the best possible position to...

You read about how lettings is getting more difficult, the sales market is toughening, interest rates are likely to be on the rise and unless you’re involved in the tech sector somehow, you’re never going to make money again.
Then the following week you read how well the property market is doing, how desperately we all need stock and how it’s fast becoming a sellers’ market in certain price ranges. I suppose the point is, we all live in challenging times, where volatility...

That’s what we’re told. We’re also told we must ‘adapt or die’. Helpful rhetoric for all of us doing our best every day. Anyway, flippancy aside, I decided to ask myself why this utter waffle is being shot across our bows as regularly as clockwork.
The digital revolution is the main culprit apparently. Digital disruption has changed the business ‘existentially’. Our industry’s challenges have been likened to the struggles camera and print firm Kodak had in the late nineties/early noughties where...

Fewer homes have been on the market in 2018 than in any year of the past decade, the UK’s biggest mortgage lender has said.
The Halifax said house-hunters have been left with relatively little choice, which means that prices have still risen as a result. House prices rose by 2.5% in the year to the end of September, with the average home costing £225,995, it said....