Margate first-time buyers can now buy their first Margate home using 5% deposit mortgages. Yet higher mortgage rates could see Margate buyers paying a lot more each month for the privilege?

In this two-minute read, we look at ways to prepare your home for a successful spring sale (part one of a two-part article).

Thanet homebuyers were celebrating last week’s extension of the Stamp Duty holiday by the Chancellor until the end of September together with the introduction of 5% deposit mortgages from April. What effect will this have on Thanet house prices and demand for private rented property in Thanet?

In this two-minute read, we look at the benefits of using a letting agent in Thanet to manage your rental property (part one of a two-part series). Almost every landlord has weighed up the merits of self-managing their rental property versus using a letting agent. After all, why pay someone to do something you do yourself, eh? It’s a reasonable enough question to which we have an emphatic answer: there are many reasons to get an expert to manage your investment property (we can think of at least 12).

In this two-minute read, we look at how parents in Thanet can help their children adjust to being back in the classroom.

This afternoon the Chancellor Rishi Sunak outlined his plans to get England back on track as we come out of the pandemic. Among furlough extensions, extra support for the self-employed and business loan schemes was the welcome news that the stamp duty holiday is being extended.

With most Ramsgate families home schooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming stamp duty holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, less Ramsgate properties have been coming onto the Thanet property market in the since the New Year. This has prompted a 20% drop in the supply of ramsgate homes for sale compared to October 2020. Whats Next

How will the Brexit deal affect Thanet house prices and your mortgage payments on your Thanet home? With Boris Johnson conclusively agreeing a Brexit deal for the UK with the European Union just before Christmas. How will this affect mortgages and house prices

How wealth is distributed will always be a contentious issue, especially as the Baby Boomers (those aged between their late 50’s and late 70’s) wealth has grown exponentially over the last 20 years, compared to the wealth of the younger generation.

As we approach the end of the year and look ahead to a new season in our lives, we start to make resolutions and goals to make the next year our year. High on the list every year is to find and move into a dream home, and 2021 could be the year you make this a reality…