Latest articles from Alan Knight

More sunny days ahead

The market again seems to be picking up and confidence rising. We are seeing an increase in the level of enquiries and viewings for commercial and retail property, price and rent still are an issue but if correctly marketed and at the right values sales and letting as re being concluded. There is still a preference for freehold property and again in value correctly funding is becoming more readily available.

Spring market starts to blossom

Well the weather is getting warmer, the sun is out at the moment and the daffodils are out and again the sentiment in the commercial and residential property market continues to improve.

Increasing confidence is being sustained

For those of us who live and work in Stourbridge the much anticipated opening of the new Crown Centre is upon us with Tesco throwing open its doors at the end of this month.

Will luke-warm budget have any effect?

I AM writing this on the morning following the 2013 Budget and it seems the Chancellor has done very little to help businesses especially no further relief in Business Rates and the payment of rates on empty properties.

New year, new challenges - new opportunities

THE year has started with an air of optimism following for us at Walton and Hipkiss our most successful year for some time, with residential sales and letting up year on year and a record year within the commercial and land sector of the business – although we are not out of the “woods” it gives us all a good platform to move forward in 2013.