If Pickering Musical Society's dress rehearsals for their Hansel & Gretel panto are anything to go by, you're in for a treat! If you haven't already, book your tickets now at the following link to avoid disappointment: http://www.kirktheatre.co.uk/events/hansel-...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents tells a heart-warming Christmas story. Scrooge had been trying to sell his house all year - but to no effect. He was fed up with cold winters and longed to move to Spain where he had found a villa at a knockdown price being...
Think about it. If you were going to employ someone to work for you, would you just accept they can do the job because they say they can and that they are the cheapest? Or course not, you would want to scrutinise the applicant to ensure you employ the best person for the...
A Friend in the Business Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents takes a look ahead at the 2018 autumn/winter property market in the final months of the pre-Brexit period. Those of us who have been connected to the property market for many years will have seen a...
Enjoy and take a look at our Mayfair Office Collection online magazine Autumn/Winter 2018 can be found here: http://bit.ly/2PjV1vE...
Come and support Kirkbymoorside Young Farmers and Pickering and District Rotary Club in a fun filled Frog Hopping Race Night on Friday evening the 19th October 2018, 6.30pm for 7pm at Kirkbymoorside Golf Club, to order tickets with a pie and pea supper at £10 each...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents looks at some of the many positives in the autumn property market. As we look forward to the autumn season in the 2018 property market the naysayers may well be citing Brexit as reason enough not to make a house move. They may...
Everyone, when selling a property, wants their estate agent to achieve the highest price in the shortest time for the minimum fee. That’s human nature. “However,” warns Peter Illingworth, “being tempted to use an agent who offers a low fee and...
Peter Illingworth has been taking a look at the Land Registry’s House Price Index and says, “From January to May of this year sale prices of houses in Ryedale have changed very little, but set against those for the whole of North Yorkshire they are marginally down by...
The property deal is agreed but not finalised, there is a willing buyer and a willing seller. Both sides have argued their points, compromised a bit, decided on a price and appointed solicitors. The buyer has arranged finance, and a surveyor. What could possibly go wrong? Well...
When instructing an estate agent it’s easy to overlook a very important part of their contract. An inexperienced seller can be beguiled by an unprofessional agent offering a tempting combination of a low fee and a high valuation, and sometimes unwittingly enter into a...
Yet another delighted client shows Sharon their appeciation for all her hard work in enabling their sale to go though smoothly. To the right of the photograph you will see the considerable number of thank you cards sent to the Kirkbymoorside office from delighted clients...
There are three essential things to consider when selling a property: the price, its promotion and your choice of estate agent. A first class professional estate agent will be key to both the price and the promotion. Although the way people buy property nowadays...
Ask anyone who is putting their property on the market about how long the legal side of things could take once they find a buyer and most will say about eleven weeks. Oh, would that it were only eleven weeks! Today the national average period taken to get from acceptance of an...
Buying a property is such a considerable investment, few can afford to get it wrong. In all the excitement and rush, too many buyers feel very uncomfortable about offering competitively and are not aware that professional advice is available to them. They really...
Peter Illingworth has been selling properties in Ryedale over the last 33 years and offers you an invaluable insight into what buyers want. Are you a buyer or are you a seller? Perhaps it is worth thinking about what buyers want if you need to sell. ...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents explains, there is a time in the course of a negotiation when the wheels sometimes come close to falling off. We can see this with Donald Trump pulling out of the Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un. And we can see it with Brexit...
Peter Illingworth, Senior Partner of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents reports, the Ryedale Housing Market continues to be buoyant, set against York house prices, according to the Land Registry House Price Index. Overall house prices in Ryedale rose by 7.07% set against York&...
Taken from the Land Registry house price index, out of the nine regions in England, Yorkshire and Humberside are in a firm fourth place, with house price prices for 2017 to 2018 equating to an annual growth of 5.1%. The top performer being the South West with 6.9%, however...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents takes a look at what and who is driving the property market this spring. In property there are top-down people and bottom-up people. The top-down people seem to believe that wealthy overseas buyers and those spending their...
Ryedale House prices continue to perform well according to the Land Registry House Price Index, figures taken from February 2017 to January 2018: Detached up 7.1% Semi-detached up 8.6% Terraced houses up 7.0% Flats/maisonettes up 7.1% The average detached...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Ryedale Estate Agents looks at how important making the right choice of agent is when planning your next property move. Markets are forever in flux. That is their nature. So our handling of them must be flexible too. In the stock...
Peter Illingworth long established Ryedale Estate Agent, reports that confidence within the first time buyer market within Ryedale continues in a positive upward direction. In January 2012 the average first time buyer spent £128,666 as compared to December 2017 at &...
Peter Illingworth Ryedale Estate Agent has taken a look at the final year figures that have just been released from the Land Registry for 2017, the house price rises in the Ryedale authority have significantly out-performed the authorities of York, Harrogate, Hambleton and...
Peter Illingworth Senior Partner of the Ryedale Estate Agents Peter Illingworth reports on his findings from viewing the Land Registry House Price Index from March to November 2017. The housing market within the Ryedale Authority had really become a hot spot according...
Peter Illingworth, Ryedale Estate agent is pleased to report that the housing market in the local authority of Ryedale appears to be in good health on seeing the figures from the Land Registry House Price Index representing this area. His findings are as follows from the...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents says “Just this week we have come up with two issues whereby potential buyers thought that buying their next home was just a matter of formality with respect to achieving a mortgage they came unstuck and I thought I would...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents looks at one of the fundamentally important issues in selling or buying a property – the deal. There is currently an awful lot in the news about negotiating. In Europe the Brexit negotiators are sharpening their pencils...
Peter Illingworth sees yet more similarities between the Brexit talks and property negotiation. Every negotiation begins with conflict of some sort - different points of view where both sides have strong and seemingly entrenched initial opinions about what each wants. This is...
Peter Illingworth of Ryedale estate agents explains the all-important third phase in a property negotiation. Most, if not all, property negotiations run on similar lines. The first phase is the easy and fun bit. Both sides get to shout at each other, dig their heels in, complain...
Peter Illingworth of Peter Illingworth Estate Agents writes, for the first time buyer, the importance of a good credit score is the first step in opening the doorway to access finance and competitive rates of borrowing or with a poor score perhaps...
