On a UK wide basis, homeowners and potential investors continue to be bombarded by our media on a daily basis with alarming reports of falling house prices, coupled to high-interest rates and the possibility of negative equity. Bad news sells newspapers! It is fair to say that in certain parts of the country, the property… Read more »
Selling your home in Harrogate is an exciting time, but when you’ve accepted the offer, you just want to move. However, the reality is the process can take longer than you may expect due to several factors. Recent research will give you a guide to the timescale you should expect, but we will also give… Read more »
Over the last few years, home ownership has felt like it has become further out of reach for many first-time home buyers. With rising home prices, a shrinking number of properties on the market, high-interest rates making mortgages a challenge, and ever-increasing competition. The Harrogate housing market can seem like an unfair game. Recent property… Read more »
Who can believe we are already in November? These autumn days are filled with luscious colours: reds, oranges and yellows dominate our countryside, yet the season itself can really influence how we are feeling. This is because the lack of sunlight reduces our production of serotonin, which is the hormone that affects your mood, appetite… Read more »
There has been a notable change in temperature over the last week or so; dare we say we even contemplated putting the heating on? It is the time of year when the nights are getting longer and the days colder, and when it comes to selling your Harrogate property, you want buyers to see the… Read more »
I’ve covered a number of tricky property issues in recent blogs and now had the idea of tackling another difficult one – i.e. listing just some of the main reasons why a property is unmortgageable. This usually comes down to physical and/or legal risks and the lender not being willing to collateralise the loan, which… Read more »
Things have been hot, hot, hot this year. After the UK seeing record temperatures, trying to keep cool has been a challenge. And then there has been the property market that has again seen the price of property coming to market this month, hitting a sixth consecutive record, up 0.4% in the month according to… Read more »
Summer is here and you may be enjoying the warmer weather, festivals and even travelling to exotic shores, so the last thing you may be considering is moving home. Summer has notably not been the favoured season for buying or selling property: sales would often pause until normality returned, but these days technology means everything… Read more »
Gemma Myring, the managing director of Myrings Estate Agents on Harrogate’s durability and setting the business up for the future. Harrogate’s ability to ride out national economic storms over so many decades is the stuff of legend. Not for nothing is Harrogate referred to as the ‘Teflon Town’ and we don’t see any significant change… Read more »
There is a wealth of uncertainty at the moment, and one of the major worries for households up and down the country is the impact of the cost of living crisis. Everyday essentials have risen astronomically, everything from fuel to food and energy, and therefore you may have heard a variety of different opinions on… Read more »
