In 1997, house prices were on average 3.5 times workers' annual wages, whereas in 2016 workers could typically expect to spend around 7.7 times annual wages on purchasing a home.
Read MoreIf you live in Leighton Buzzard in a two-bedroom property and wish to move to a four-bedroom house in Leighton Buzzard, you would need to spend an additional £216,766 (or £856.23 pm in mortgage payments (based on the UK Bank average standard variable rate))
Read MoreFor NEW landlords who sign up in November for a property in the LU5,LU6 and LU7 postcodes to be marketed before the end of 2017 we will charge ZERO landlord fees for this first tenancy.
Read MoreAs well as awarding Belvoir Dunstable the Gold Award AllAgents also awarded Belvoir Dunstable the Bronze Award for Best letting Agent customer experience in Bedfordshire.
Read MoreLeighton Buzzard Buy-to-Let Return / Yields - 1.4% to 6.9% a year
Read MoreBack in the early 2000's, between 1m and 1.3m people moved each year in England and Wales, peaking at 1,349,306 home-moves (i.e. house sales) in 2002. However, the 'credit crunch' hit in 2008 and the number of house sales fell to 624,994 in 2009.
Read MoreLooking at the Baby Boomers (the current 65+year olds) .. and roll the clock back 36 years (to when they were in their 30's and 40's and two thirds (65.6%) of them owned their own home.
Read MoreTalking to several Leighton Buzzard landlords, they are very conscious of their tenants' capacity and ability to pay the rent and their own need to raise rents on their rental properties
Read MoreNow, I have specifically not mentioned the upper reaches of the Leighton Buzzard housing market for several reasons. Firstly, the lower or middle market is where most of the buy to let investment landlords buy their property
Read MoreDespite the uncertainty over Brexit Leighton Buzzard (and most of the UK's) property values continue their medium and long-term upward trajectory.
Read MoreThe number of houses coming to market has slowed significantly which you would expect to mean that this would push prices up instead we have also seen the number of buyers reducing.
Read MoreThe days of advertising properties in newspapers are most likely a thing of the past. Properties available for rent are often gone before the paper is available and the amount of information and photos shown are limited.
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