Recent Articles in Renovating property checklists

What next for the property market in 2022?
Apr 14, 2022

What next for the property market in 2022 and is general consumer confidence impacting on the property market? What’s the best advice for buyers and sellers this month? Read the full article to find out.

Over 10 reasons why we might not be heading for a property market crash ..... but then again, who knows!
Mar 30, 2022

I always expect several stories a year about the likelihood of a property crash. Usually, they come around May or June time, but this year it’s a bit early. Read my article to find out more. 

Property price report from Kate Faulkner for March 2022
Mar 16, 2022

The more 2022 continues, the more I think property prices are going to be extremely dependent on the individual supply and demand for that property at the time it comes up for sale. This is tough for the media to get across to buyers/sellers, but it’s essential for agents in particular to do so. Using the average results from the stats we have seen to date rather than an agent’s local knowledge is essential for buyers to listen to. I’m also not a great fan of the automatic valuations often used to drive leads as when the data is like this, it could end up under-pricing some and overpricing others – and we know how badly that ends for everyone! Read my latest property price analysis here.

Radio 4’s Moral Maze asks ‘what is our countryside for?’
Mar 3, 2022

Radio 4's Moral Maze asks 'What is our countryside for?'. I was recently asked to be a witness to support housing in the countryside. To do this, I did quite a lot of research and thought it would be useful to highlight how ridiculous the call is that developers are ‘concreting’ over Britain. My key point is that we have a housing crisis in the UK – but one that is rarely properly defined. The true housing crisis isn’t greedy landlords and developers, who are often blamed, it’s simple - read my article to find out more and listen to Kate Faulkner again.

Planning reforms in England: Looking back on a busy 2020 and 2021
Feb 9, 2022

It’s safe to say that many predictions made about the start of this decade turned out to be worthless. But it’s also true – as many people have said – that some of the ways that the COVID-19 crisis affected the world accelerated what was already happening rather than reversing their course. We’re going to look back on how that has all played out in the English planning system.