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Despite the cold weather the property market seems to be warming up as we move into April. All the indicators suggest that this year should be better than 2011 and 2012 in terms of the number of successful house sales that sellers will achieve. The Council of Mortgage lenders predict an easing of mortgage availability as we move through the year and the biggest property advertising website, Rightmove, are also seeing a gentle rise in prices as we move into the Spring market. That is not to suggest that we are moving back to the boom years of 2006/7, far from it, which is no bad thing. It still means that house sellers will have to make sure that they present their homes as well as possible before putting them on the market – our free House Doctor Consultation will help there – as well as getting the price…

I’ve just discovered a really neat little app on the multimap.com website that allows you to look at a map of an area in terms of relative house prices with red areas being the most desirable (and hence expensive) and green/blue areas being the least desirable (hence least expensive). Either go to multimap.com put in your post code and click on the map – where you can move around to look at other towns or zoom in/out to see larger of smaller areas. Alternatively, try the link below to see house prices in Hertford.

http://www.mouseprice.com/property-information/ref-12277038/60%20harmer%20green%20lane%20al6%200aw#tabsinfo

The Government are going to introduce new permitted development rights for owners of commercial office blocks to convert them to residential apartments. Sounds like a good idea. They should extend it to High Street shops as the blight of empty shops needs a solution and it’s not going to come from more reatil outlets!

http://propertydrum.briefyourmarket.com/Newsletters/JUNGLEdrum—the-newsbeat-from-PROPERTYdrum41/New-office-to-residential-changes-announced.aspx