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Stamp duty tax: what’s changing?

Stamp duty tax: what’s changing?

Are you one of the many buyers racing to complete on a home sale before the extended stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland comes to an end on... Read More
Chicken and egg

Chicken and egg

In our second monthly column for local daily paper, the Shropshire Star, our Co-Director Russell Griffin, discusses the number one question he is asked by people as an estate agent.... Read More
What Goes Up - Goes Up Further

What Goes Up - Goes Up Further

Russell Griffin of Samuel Wood looks to a genius to make some sense of a property market, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1980s.   What Isaac Newton, who formulated the laws of gravity in the middle of the 17th... Read More
One in three properties is sold for over asking price

One in three properties is sold for over asking price

Propertymark's latest Housing Market Report shows that one in three properties (32 per cent) sold for more than the original asking price. This is the highest figure on record, massively beating the previous one of 19 per cent in May 2014.... Read More
How to view a property safely

How to view a property safely

  TV personality and property expert Phil Spencer has created a Youtube video on understanding the rules of how to view a property safely. Now that... Read More
Stay Calm And Carry On

Stay Calm And Carry On

Samuel Wood suggests how to tackle the property market as we approach the end of lockdown and the start of summer. Has the world gone completely mad? Indeed just lately the world of property seems as though it might have done. If the... Read More
Shropshire is a destination county

Shropshire is a destination county

Co-Director of Samuel Wood Shropshire has begun commentary of the sector in the county newspaper - The Shropshire Star in his capacity as a sector leading agent. In his first column this week, he discusses Shropshire as a destination... Read More
Prices hit record high as properties sell at fastest pace ever recorded

Prices hit record high as properties sell at fastest pace ever recorded

This is now the fastest-selling market that Rightmove has measured since our records began! Some key stats from the report:  - National... Read More
What is there to love about Shrewsbury?

What is there to love about Shrewsbury?

With offices across beautiful Shropshire in Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Church Stretton and Oswestry – our Samuel Wood staff really are well placed to know lots about the county. So, we thought we would do a little series on ‘Why we... Read More
Strongest Spring sellers market in a decade

Strongest Spring sellers market in a decade

Thinking of selling? Rightmove has released its House Price... Read More