Sales

Can a tenant buy my house? Great question!

Perhaps your tenants have expressed a desire to purchase your house and get on the property ladder, or maybe you are planning to offer the opportunity to them as you want to move your focus elsewhere.

Try as we might to adopt a more European attitude and feel totally comfortable with renting our entire lives, many of us aspire to homeownership. It’s an aim that stems back to the 1980s when the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, set out to create a ‘property-owning democracy’.

Owning a buy to let and renting out your property can be very rewarding. It can be a way of having a regular income coming in, together with actually owning something that should increase in value over time.

If you are considering renting out a property, there are many things you need to make sure you get right, such as rental income, statutory obligations (e.g. gas and electric certificates), and of course having the right tenants in-situ.

Skips. Cement mixers. Brick dust. People with hard hats and high-viz jackets milling about. How do these make you feel? Just like Marmite, homeowners have a love/hate relationship with renovations. What camp do you fall in?

When you sell your home, you’ll want as many people to be impressed as possible. Buyers will make an assumption about your property within seconds, whether that’s when browsing photos online or looking at your property during a viewing.

In 2023, the Bank of Mum & Dad gifted or loaned an estimated £9.4 billion to adult children buying a property. It’s a sum that has almost doubled since 2019, with generous parents and even grandparents keen to help loved ones get a foot on the property ladder.

Yes it’s a cliché but will 2025 be a case of ‘New Year, new home?’ If you are serious about purchasing a property, almost everything will be dictated by your monetary situation. Here’s how to get your finances in order before you start looking for a new home.

You’ve found your dream home, and your offer has been accepted. Congratulations! Your journey to owning your new property has officially begun. But before you start looking for a removal company, you'll need to progress the house sale to completion day, and in an ideal world, do it stress-free!

If you’re wondering what happens after your offer is accepted by the seller and you start the conveyancing process, here are five immediate things you need to do to get things moving towards a time when you can exchange contracts and get a completion date.

It is one of the most unusual property phenomena but the Boxing Day bounce is real and potential sellers can prepare for it now.

Here at Fortis we often get asked this question. And we can categorically say no, don’t take your house off the market just because it is December!

Now is an ideal time to have your property listed for sale, and you really ought to be instructing a pro-active estate agency just like Fortis to get things moving.

We think now is a great time, and here are our five reasons why...

Data held by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government estimates there are almost 5 million leasehold homes in England alone. As a result, many people buy, and subsequently sell, a leasehold property.