Author: Peter Morgan

Some of you reading this will be old enough to remember the 1970s – the bell-bottom trousers, the huge collars, frayed jeans, disco glitter balls, maxi dresses, midi skirts but above everything else - HYPER-INFLATION. With inflation currently standing at

The number of properties available to rent in Neath has dropped from 111 to 44 since February 2020. The average rent a tenant has had to pay in Neath has risen from £516 to £728 since February 2020. Many Neath

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, gave his Autumn Budget 2022 at lunchtime, intending to deal with inflation and keep mortgage rates down for homeowners. In this short and sharp post, I wanted to touch on what this would mean specifically for

I often get asked what is going to happen to Neath house prices. Many things affect house prices, and it comes down to simple supply and demand. On the supply side of the equation, in the short-term, the number of

Most Neath homeowners born before 1960 have been in their homes for more than 25 years. Yet of all the properties sold in the UK since the first lockdown in the summer of 2020, 50% of those property owners had

Being a Neath landlord is undoubtedly a challenge. The glory years of making money from ‘any old property’ are certainly in the past. With increased legislation and taxation from Government and the cost-of-living crisis (which will result in some Neath

Doom and gloom in the British property market or clickbait doom-mongers? Newspapers and clickbait 24-7 news websites, desperate for clicks, are peddling a story of a doomsday time for the economy, particularly the property market, as interest rates and inflation

Looking at the newspapers with their doom and gloom headlines, you would think that the Neath property market (and the British property market) would be on its knees. Yet ring some Neath estate agents for a viewing or free valuation,

As gas and electric bills rocket for Neath tenants, Neath landlords who do not start to make energy efficiency upgrades face lengthy void periods and will have to discount their rents. This is irrespective of the Government's plans to change

With the cost-of-living crisis beginning to hit, the 20 and 30-somethings of Neath urgently need the help and support of the Government to help them get on the property ladder. For the last few weeks, we have listened to the