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Sutton Coldfield FTB Homes Are 24% More Affordable Than 18 Years Ago. If you listened to the doom merchants, you would think first-time buyers (FTB) in Sutton Coldfield had no chance at all. According to the loudest voices, buying a first home is impossible, the ladder has been pulled up, and the only people who buy their first homes today are lottery winners or those with wealthy parents. The story is always the same. Prices up, wages squeezed, and doors slammed shut. Yet when you scratch ben...

My Thoughts on the Budget for our local property market homeowners & landlords The Autumn Budget delivered the expected changes to housing and taxation, although the impact will be felt more in sentiment than in immediate cost. The centrepiece was the new annual levy on homes worth more than £2m, due from 2028. Owners of £2m plus homes will pay more and the rest of us will pay more through the wider tax system. None of it was a surprise. The charges are £2,500 a year for homes above �...

The 2025 Sutton Coldfield Property Market A study of this year’s property market and what will happen in 2026? With only a few weeks to go before the end of the year, as a Sutton Coldfield estate and letting agent, I wanted to share what has happened in both the UK and Sutton Coldfield property markets in 2025, analysing the trends for Sutton Coldfield homeowners, home buyers and landlords alike… and then compare them to previous years. All statistics for each year are up to 16 Nov...

Which Sutton Coldfield Homes Actually Sell, and Which Don’t Some homes in Sutton Coldfield fly off the market within weeks. Others sit for months, attract only a handful of viewings, then quietly disappear from the portals, unsold. The difference isn’t luck, it’s sellability. Would it surprise you that of the 10.94 million homes that have left UK estate agents books since January 2019, only 6.33 million (or 57.86%) sold and moved. The other 4.61 million came off the market unsold. This ...

The 8 Year & 24 Week Sutton Coldfield Itch That’s Driving Half of All Home Moves. If you walk down almost any Sutton Coldfield road or street, you will see the quiet signs of life playing out behind the front doors. Families growing. Kids leaving home. Kitchens are being refitted for the second or third time. Yet somewhere in that rhythm, every homeowner starts to feel it again ... the gentle itch to move. Nationally, that cycle is longer than most people think. Across the UK, there are ...