If you are local to our branch network, you may have seen our recent leaflet through your door, "The perfect time to get your home on the market with Mackenzie Smith". Whilst we successfully assist in the buying, selling and renting of homes all year round, there are indeed "peak" times to start considering whether to put your home on the market, now is certainly one of them. With the festive season on the horizon, it would be easy to sit back and wait until the New Year, however, Rightmove report their busiest time of the year during the Christmas break. It's no coincidence that those two weeks see the most web traffic to property pages, when people have the time to dedicate to a house search. This poses a prime opportunity for your property to be viewed online.

With that in mind, now is the perfect time to put your home on the market with Mackenzie Smith.

With the Bank of England base rate at its lowest, we revisit the longstanding debate of whether to buy a fixed or variable rate mortgage. Whilst one option offers security, the other offers potential savings and the question is, which would be right for you?