Foreign investment in Liverpool: Residential property focus The issue of overseas investment really is a tale of two cities. National newspapers regularly report on the housing problems in the UK’s capital as wealthy foreign investors snap up residential stock causing demand to soar and house prices to follow suit. Indeed, property investment ... Read More...
Andrew Louis
New regulations to protect home buyers from being misled have been welcomed by Liverpool agents. Revised codes of practice by The Property Ombudsman (TPO) will take effect from tomorrow (1 October), preventing agents from hiding price cuts online and giving the impression a property is new to the market when it is ... Read More...
House prices in Liverpool have stabilised two months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, according to a local agent. Keppie Massie branch manager Debra Beach made the claim following the release of Nationwide’s latest House Price Index, which suggests prices across the UK rose by 6% year on year ... Read More...
Claims that values of homes and costs of mortgages could be hit if Britain leaves the European Union (EU) have been dismissed by a Liverpool property expert. Chancellor George Osborne, who is in support of remaining in the EU when the referendum takes place on 23 June, made the suggestion during ... Read More...
New landlords are being urged to ensure they have everything in order to comply with all regulations as the lettings sector becomes ‘more complicated’. Industry expert, Louis Anastasiou, managing director of Liverpool’s estate and lettings agency Andrew Louis, is calling on property owners with little expertise in renting out properties to ... Read More...
Liverpool agents are anticipating an increase in sales and continuing rental market confidence during 2016. Changes including a 3% stamp duty rise for many buy-to-let properties may be on the horizon following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement but Ian Taylor (pictured), lettings manager of Reeds Rains Estate & Letting Agents in Liverpool, ... Read More...
Local estate agent Andrew Louis has reported an excellent response to its Mission Christmas appeal. Stavroulla Anastasiou and branch manager Erica Mooney would like to thank everyone for their generous donations and appreciate all the support. Radio City's Mission Christmas had a shortage of baby nappies and other items for older children - ... Read More...
The impact of the government’s Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) reforms, which were implemented a year ago, has attracted a mixed response from Liverpool agents. Representatives of the city’s property industry have reflected on how the changes introduced on 4 December 2014, which make the first £125,000 of a property price ... Read More...
Andrew Louis Estate Agents’ Prescot based is currently being restored as part of a £3.2 million Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project. Number 19 Ecclestone Street, occupied by the agency, is undergoing repairs to restore its Victorian façade via the Heritage Lottery Fund, with work scheduled to be completed in January 2016. Louis Anastasiou, managing director ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council says its landlord licensing scheme has received a “very good response” in its first six months, despite ongoing concerns from letting agents. The local authority’s initiative came into effect on 1 April this year, making it mandatory for property owners to apply for a licence for every Liverpool ... Read More...