Who Are Yer? // James Forrester
25/07/2019
We catch up with the Managing Director of Stripe Homes, James Forrester in this ‘Who Are Yer?’
Birmingham Jewellery Quarter Homeowners Sell Their Home Nearly 20% Less Than the UK Average
18/07/2019
The average homeowner in the UK moves every 20.2 years… That average in the 1970’s and 80’s was around every 10 to 11 years; in the 1990’s it increased to the mid-teens (in terms of years) and in the early part of the Millennium, it dropped again to the low teens.
13.6% of all Properties Sold in Birmingham City Centre are New Builds
04/07/2019
Of the 26,100 houses and apartments sold in Birmingham City Centre (B1) since 1995, 2,970 of those have been new homes, representing 13.6% of property sold.
Birmingham Council House Waiting List Drops by 61.1% since 2011
27/06/2019
In 1979, more than 4 in 10 British people lived in a council house, yet today that figure is only 1 in 12, whilst according to Shelter 65% of families on the Council House waiting lists had been on those lists for more than a year and 27% had been waiting for more than five years.