What Happens On Completion Day?
By The Knight Edmonds TeamCompletion day is without doubt the best part of the entire home buying process. It’s on this day that you’ll pick up the keys and take possession of your new home in Maidstone. However, before completion day can happen, there...
How to Prepare Your Maidstone Garden This Winter
By The Knight Edmonds TeamAre you selling your home over winter? Just because mowing season has come to an end, that doesn’t mean your garden has to lose its appeal during the colder months. Here are four tips on how to prepare your garden in your...
How Many Days Does It Take to Sell a Maidstone Home?
By The Knight Edmonds TeamWhether you are a Maidstone homeowner, first-time buyer, or landlord; the last 15 months has been a roller coaster ride when it comes to the Maidstone property market. With 213,120 UK house buyers and 58,580 UK tenants moving home...
1 in 17 Maidstone Properties are Bungalows despite an Ageing Population. Why?
By The Knight Edmonds TeamThe bungalow is a building that has represented a more leisurely, gentler way of life since the early 1900’s. Bungalows have been sold as an aspiration for those about to retire, saving them the annoyance of having to climb...
Maidstone’s Love (and Hate) Affair with the Semi-Detached House
By The Knight Edmonds TeamThe Semi-Detached House – the icon of middle-class aspiration, the pinnacle of liberalism yet at the same time compromised individuality, the ‘semi’ as it is colloquially termed is, for many Maidstone homeowners, the...
Maidstone Home Moves Hit Record High in June
By The Knight Edmonds Teamas 137.3% more people sell in June compared to the Maidstone area 10-year average June 2021 was the busiest month ever for UK estate agents, home removal companies and conveyancers since monthly records began, as HMRC logged...
Why Savvy Maidstone Buy-to-Let Landlords Do not Use 10-Year Mortgages
By The Knight Edmonds TeamAnd the reason you shouldn’t either] I know of many Maidstone buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many did not want to sell their family home when the Maidstone housing market crashed in the Credit...
Maidstone Homeowners Profit By £65,400 in Last 5 Years
By The Knight Edmonds Team… yet Bitcoin investors would have made £15,874,730 in profit. Is investing in ‘Bricks & Mortar’ dead? Investing in property has historically been a sound investment, yet alternative investments (like Cryptocurrency) have...
£736,571 – ‘Wood’ You Pay That for a Maidstone Semi-Detached House?
By The Knight Edmonds TeamThe value of an average Maidstone semi-detached house has increased in value by £26,232 in the last 12 months, an increase in value of 7.55%. Yet the costs of building a Maidstone home have shot up even more in the last 12...
Is Maidstone Heading Towards a House Price Crash?
By Alex KnightMaidstone house prices rose by 1.4% last month, according to the Land Registry, meaning the average annual rate of house price growth in Maidstone now stands at 11.7%. Looking at the national figures, many people were concerned...