Property News

Buyers are acting like it’s a buyers market…because it is! If there’s one house and ten buyers, sellers call the shots. If there are ten houses and one buyer, the buyer does. Buyers can be choosy right now because they have more choice. Sellers are competing for their attention! Or at least they should be. […]

Your Selling Price – How To Tip The Balance In Your Favour Whether you are selling in North Devon or further afield, one of the most corrosive feelings for sellers is powerlessness. Interest rates. Political Headlines. Election noise. A slow winter market. A friend who sold high in 2022 and still won’t stop mentioning it. […]

Best time to sell a house in North Devon – The six weeks that will decide if North Devon sellers will sell well – or not.   January often feels like a holding month. But we are actually right in the middle of one of the most crucial times in the annual selling calendar. The […]

If 2024–2025 felt like a long, awkward pause in the North Devon property market, you’re not imagining it. Mortgage rates climbed, confidence wobbled, and buyers became a lot more… forensic. But as we step into 2026, and I think something has shifted. Not a frenzy. Not a boom. But a quiet recalibration — and for […]

Your North Devon house selling guide to December. 2025 tested your nerve. Double council-tax premiums rattled the coast, rates teased then stalled, the Autumn Statement pressed pause, and a year-long buyers’ market tugged prices back to earth. That was just the way it was. Here’s the way to bounce back. December is the ember—small, dim, […]

Once upon a very recent time, Halifax announced that average UK house prices had crept back up again. New “record high”, they said. Headlines shouted about nearly £300,000 average values and year-on-year growth. If you only read that, you’d assume the market is roaring, buyers are queuing round the block, and every seller simply has […]

This week’s reality check: buyers are parked up until the Autumn Budget (26 Nov). Sales agreed have dipped, £500k+ buyers are cautious, and the South West has its handbrake on. RICS says buyer enquiries have fallen for the third month. Translation: fewer viewings, more thumb-twiddling—if you do nothing. What “wait-and-see” really means Demand hasn’t died; […]

The Autumn Budget (set for 26 November 2025) is being trailed with a flurry of property-tax leak stories. None are law yet, but several ideas keep recurring. Here’s what they are, how they could work, and what they might mean for sellers at every price point in North Devon—plus the calm, practical moves to make […]