Howard Peterman

It’s the February half-term holiday, 2026 – so that means ‘busy’. You just know that Gametime Playtime will be enjoying packed crowds of (very) excited children, the holiday camp at the Hive Foundation will be in full swing, and if you head to Chandos Recreation Ground, you’ll find that, despite the endless drizzle, the children’s […]

Stamp duty may become an issue we see thrust back into the heart of the housing debate, with fresh promises to scrap it raising questions for buyers, sellers… and, not least, estate agents. This week, Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch reaffirmed the Conservative Party’s intention to abolish stamp duty – and she did so whilst visiting

Deposit amounts rather than property prices are shaping the housing market for first-time buyers in Edgware. When we talk about the housing market, most of the noise focuses on property prices, inflation (or the “cost of living”), and interest rates, whether it’s a “good time” to buy or sell, etc. And this is natural, because

The government has set out wide-ranging plans to overhaul the leasehold system in England and Wales, with changes expected to affect millions of current and future homeowners. One thing that stands out in particular under the proposals, which will bring relief to many leaseholders, is news that annual ground rent will be capped at £250.

This week brought some mixed economic news. For several months we have seen gradually falling inflation, leading to six base rate cuts since August 2024, with hopes for more. But this week we heard that inflation has ticked up again, to 3.4% in December, from 3.2% in November. At the same time, however, the Rightmove

Every so often, two familiar words resurface in the press – usually in opposite markets: gazumping and gazundering. Estate Agents unfortunately tend to rank low in terms of public trust and reputation – something that here at Petermans we truly try our best to tip on its head. The odd peculiarity of both gazumping and

The housing market is said to run to all sorts of cycles – from weekly cycles to 7-year cycles to 21-year cycles, and everything in between. But when it comes to its annual cycle, the early New Year period is often one of the busiest – driven in no small part by ‘New Year’s Resolution

In 164 BCE, a guerrilla resistance fighter called Judah Maccabee led a force in revolt against the Seleucid Empire that wished to force Greek customs on the Jews they lorded over. He drove his enemy’s forces from Jerusalem, and he purified and rededicated the defiled Temple of Jerusalem on the 25th day of Kislev. It