If you’re ready to move, we’re ready to take the challenge. If we don’t sell your home in 90 days you’ll receive 50% OFF your agency fee. T&C’s Apply. 90 Day Challenge Terms & Conditions 2025 To Qualify, the property must: Be instructed during the qualifying period which starts on 1st Jan 2025 and ends […]
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Upcoming changes to Tenancy Law and the pending Renters Reform Act 2023. It’s really not as scary as you might first think!
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After lots of pre-budget speculation, the Chancellor has now announced some important factors affecting the housing market. The first being confirmation that the current stamp duty holiday that was due to end on 31st March 2021 will now be extended until the end of June, along with an additional extension of the stamp duty holiday
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The Government’s ‘Help to Buy’ equity loan means it’s possible to buy a ‘New Build’ home up to £600,000 with a little as 5% deposit. For example: 5% deposit + 20% from Help to buy (interest free for 5 years) = 75% loan to value mortgage. So YOU could be closer to having your
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As you are aware the Government has announced a second Covid related lockdown until 1st December with many businesses having to close. However, the property market for both sales and lettings remains open. Clarkes Estates WILL BE OPEN during the lockdown period to look after you and your property with a full range of services
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Clarkes are proud to be working in association with Arundel Lido to help raise in aid of ‘Project Leap’, turning this currently seasonal venue into an all year round leisure facility for the community. Casino Royale Ball is taking place on Saturday 23rd March and in our opinion is an event not to be missed!
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From time to time there are lots of short but interesting snippets of news about the housing market. So, we thought it would be helpful to do a short ’round up’ of those that caught our eye in the last week or two. As always, if you would like any advice or information about
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A sign of the times – with demand for buy-to-let loans significantly down by nearly 19% this year, lenders have responded by cutting rates and offering landlords rock-bottom deals. The current long term fixed rate and variable rate investor mortgages are the cheapest we have ever seen. Just look at a few examples. The Leeds
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Answer – because it actually makes great sense! If you ask potential sellers when is a good time to put their property on the market, very few will immediately say ‘December’. However, it is actually a great time to be instructing your estate agent (that’s Clarkes by the way!) and in this blog post we
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The budget on Monday seemed quite a low key affair for the housing market, with the main announcements being about personal tax and the NHS – coupled with a long list of small items that were instantly forgettable. However, as usual with modern day politicians, the devil is usually in the detail – hidden away
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The Government has recently published a report into Electrical Safety in Rented Property which looks as if it will make it a mandatory legal requirement for landlords to have five-yearly electrical safety checks. What’s more, there is also a recommendation that Residual Current Devices (RCDs), better known as ‘trip switches’ should be a part of
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Taking part in the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ for McMillan this year was a lovely way to help raise money for cancer support and to come together in the community. With coffee mornings taking place at both of our offices it was great to see so many people come along and say hello, stop and
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