How to properly research your new neighbourhood before you buy🔍

How to properly research your new neighbourhood before you buy🔍

When searching for your new dream home, it's easy to get stuck focussing solely on the bricks and mortar. How many bedrooms? What's the kitchen like? etc. When buying a new home, you are not only purchasing the house, you're also buying into the neighbourhood.

Andrea Fawell, Sales and Marketing Director at Kebbell gives us her top tips on how to research if your potential new neighbourhood is what you are looking for, but urges buyers to bear in mind that most neighbourhoods will have benefits and drawbacks. To continue reading, please Click Here


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A delightful two-bedroom home with an open front outlook over open greensward, lounge features a cosy open fireplace, a sleek kitchen/diner flowing into an outside garden room, modern bathroom, generous storage, low-maintenance garden and private parking. Warm, stylish and ready to enjoy.

This heat map uses census data to show where Attleborough residents work longer hours, revealing clear differences in working patterns across the town. By understanding how work-life balance varies between neighbourhoods, we gain useful insight into local lifestyles and the factors shaping our community.

This data shows a clear north–south split in UK housing supply. Homes for sale are rising across London and the South, while much of the North is seeing stock fall. The contrast raises questions about affordability, confidence, and whether higher supply in the South could limit house price growth into 2026.

Despite the headlines, first-time buyers in Attleborough are not locked out of homeownership. When you look beyond prices and focus on monthly mortgage costs, affordability today is far better than many realise. The data challenges the doom narrative and shows that, while deposits are tough, buying a first home is still possible.