Two news items broke recently: London has only four properties listed under £125,000 Leeds has many under £70,000 and Hogan's were featured here. The first one may not surprise you at all, as in some parts of London., £100,000 would get you only a garage or less. The second one may alert you as a
Can you believe Christmas is approaching? Like us, you've probably seen supermarkets getting seasonal aisles in shape and wondered why when it's still so warm. But bear with us as three months is a typical selling time for property. The housing market is never a predictable one, but what we can safely say each year at
The list of big businesses that have crashed in the past twenty years makes for quite grim reading: Woolworth's, BHS, Littlewoods, Maplins, Toys R Us, with others having to restructure and slim to survive: M and S, HMV, Jessops and Mothercare being three examples. What's caused it? People's habits have obviously changed - the days
Adam Parkin heads up Hogan's Fast Sale and Hogan's Online Plus and is someone who is popular with the team, landlords and house sellers and buyers for his acute local knowledge and dry sense of humour. He's been in the property business for some time now - though he's reticent about saying how long for
Last week, we posted a Facebook update from the news that revealed the top 20 things home buyers now demand and it provoked a lot of interest. If you scroll down this article, you can see the full list, or if you like our Facebook page, you will read more property and Leeds facts daily. Number
News broke last week and made headlines online on various property websites and in the mainstream press that buying a house is now officially cheaper than renting. We think it’s true and not just in east Leeds, but in many places across the UK (London and the south east perhaps excepted). Look at the figures.
Leeds, like many major cities, is undergoing transformation of its property market, which is largely being driven by the digital explosion. The days of consumers spending hours browsing in shops may be coming to an end as we have all access to high speed broadband and the likes of Amazon, eBay and Gumtree. Giant commercial
I lived in Leeds from 1986 to 1987, as a student, in the suburb of Headingley, long before I made acquaintance with the team at Hogan's. I do vaguely remember a bus route that took me through Harehills and not directly to the city centre, when I was teacher training and if I squint back
Property prices vary massively across the country - in some parts of the south east, £50,000 wouldn't buy you a garage or beach hut, but in other places, you'd have spare change for refurbishments and holidays. Take the north east for example. A terraced house in some parts of County Durham can be bought for
We are looking this week in our latest blog at surveys - not the ones used on "Family Fortunes" (if you're old enough to remember that phrase) but the ones you need for house purchases. You can find further advice on surveyors on the RICS and RSPA websites but we thought, at Hogan's, we'd give
