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
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
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
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
You're probably aware that there's a growing international trend for smaller spaces that are energy efficient and ergonomic. Japan pioneered this and other countries quickly followed suit as demand for urban space increased and supply of said land diminished. The new developments for Leeds South Bank will presumably give a nod to this trend and,
Ten, fifteen years ago, when you switched on tv during the day or evening, you were bound to see property programmes when channel surfing and, you still can today, but now on dedicated channels. These programmes, like Homes under the Hammer, Property Ladder and others, chronicled investors and buyers who'd bought a wreck and transformed
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
