With footfall declining in so many town and city centres, there's little wonder that retailers are thinking about how to reinvent themselves. John Lewis made the news this weekend for venturing into property. Their plans, in our opinion, are visionary. That middle class shop with its premium supermarket sister, Waitrose, wants to exploit empty space
If you're familiar with Leeds at all, you'll know it's a city with some strange idiosyncrasies - one is the definition of suburbs via postcodes (like London) and the other is the vast range of prices depending on compass point. You want the most expensive properties in Leeds? Stand in the centre and face north.
London got 13,000 affordable homes last year. That leading sentence may surprise you - it did with us. Any quick glance by you or our team at Rightmove or Zoopla shows that London property is still one of the most expensive places in the UK. Buying a property in London is a pipe-dream for many
This past year has felt a bit like going back in time with Covid 19 and lockdown. The property market was in danger of imploding but the stamp duty holiday and furlough scheme, arguably, saved it. If you're old enough to remember the heady days of the 1980s, you'll know that back then property prices
What will another lockdown do to the property market? 2020 saw frenetic activity in the property buying and letting industry. Partly fuelled by stamp duty holidays and by people choosing to move for more space, the doom many expected did not materialise. We, like you and your business, had to adapt. Virtual viewings replaced physical
2020, the year we all perhaps want to forget - but one, we're unlikely to forget in a hurry. There's been unprecedented deaths in the Uk and globally. The economic downturn has been drastic too, with job losses, shops going into administration and city centres like Leeds becoming lockdown ghost towns. Property sales and lets
Fast. Two meanings. Fast as in not eat and fast as in quick - like Fast and Furious? We've been running Hogan's FAST Sale for some time now and it's been a successful model for sellers, buyers and investors. We all know that house selling can be frustratingly slow - it's only in soap operas,
Amidst the economic and health turmoil of the global pandemic, there have been several property initiatives introduced by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond in Yorkshire, that caught the eye. The first was the Stamp Duty holiday. This meant all property purchases up to the value of £500,ooo were exempted. It's led to frenzied
Coronavirus and the Harehills property market What a strange year 2020 has been with few signs that the global pandemic will shift anytime soon. At Hogan’s, we’ve switched back and forth between remote working and being in the office. We’re still carrying out many valuations based on market data and our vast knowledge of the
If you follow our active Facebook page, you have probably noticed how proactive our team have been in Covid 19 lockdown. We can't carry out physical face-to-face valuations or accompany viewings of properties we have for sale or to let, but we have made a point of showcasing many properties, where possible, on smartphone video
