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We took a notional £50 a month on a tour of Brighton's storage postcodes to see what it actually buys. Spoiler: in Kemptown it buys you a cupboard, and along the coast road it buys you something closer to a garage.
Behind most padlocked doors in Brighton sits a question nobody asked at the time: who actually owns this stuff? From split couples to lien clauses, here's what happens when ownership goes fuzzy.
Brighton's family homes are occupied by two people and forty years of memories, while renters circle outside. The downsizing logjam isn't stubbornness — it's arithmetic, sentiment, and a stamp duty bill. Here's what might actually shift it.
Downsizing in Brighton? Most people make the same five storage mistakes, and every one of them costs money. Here's the timeline that actually works, from six weeks out to moving day.
Brighton's lofts, garages and sheds hold two kinds of value: the stuff inside them, and the space itself. We run the numbers on both — conversions, storage lets, and what planning rules will actually allow.
Every viewing is a two-way performance — and everyone's worse at acting than they think. We look at what Brighton renters and landlords are really signalling to each other, and how to skip the theatre entirely.
The green premium has been promised to landlords for years: upgrade your property, charge more rent. In Brighton, the evidence says it simply isn't turning up. Here's what that means for anyone staring down an EPC deadline.
We were handed a year's worth of rent books from an anonymous Brighton landlord and asked to make sense of them. The numbers tell a story neither tenants nor landlords will fully enjoy reading.
Paying rent on a Brighton flat you can't live in for three months? You're not alone — and there are cheaper ways to bridge the gap than most students realise. Here are five storage strategies that beat paying for an empty room.
Too many Brighton renters — residential and commercial alike — are handing over power the moment they pick up a pen. Unfair clauses, buried obligations, and one-sided break terms are costing people money they didn't know they'd agreed to spend. Here's what to look for, what to push back on, and how others have done it successfully.
Brighton's property market doesn't stop in winter — it just changes shape. For landlords and commercial property owners who know how to read the seasonal shifts, the quieter months aren't a problem to survive but an opportunity to get ahead. Here's what the calendar is really telling you, and how to use it.
Thousands of Brighton property owners are sitting on rental income they've never thought to chase — from overgrown side returns to dusty loft rooms that haven't seen daylight in years. The reasons they're not acting are more psychological than practical. Here's what's really going on, and how some locals have already started cashing in.
Brighton's property market moves to its own rhythm — shaped by student intakes, tourist seasons, and the particular ebb and flow of a city that never quite settles into a single gear. For property owners, understanding that rhythm isn't just interesting background knowledge. It's the difference between a smart decision and an expensive one.
It rarely makes the headlines, but the friction between neighbours is one of the most underreported forces shaping Brighton's property market. From noise complaints in converted terraces to loading bay disputes outside commercial units, the human dynamics of shared space are pushing landlords, tenants, and business owners into decisions they never expected to make.
Managing a rental property in Brighton was never supposed to feel like running a bureaucracy. Yet for a growing number of landlords and storage operators across the city, the paperwork alone is quietly eating into their returns — and most of them don't even realise how much it's costing them.
A quiet but growing number of Brighton professionals are renting small units, hot-desks, or micro-spaces close to their workplace rather than hauling everything back and forth across the city. We dig into the trend, the economics, and what it says about how people are rethinking the relationship between where they live and where they work.
Across Brighton, a growing number of delivery-focused food operators and catering entrepreneurs are locked into commercial leases for spaces they barely use. We examine the contractual traps, the financial bleed, and whether the traditional commercial lease is simply the wrong tool for the way modern food businesses actually work.
Brighton's tightening HMO regulations are forcing landlords into an uncomfortable decision: spend big on compliance or convert back to single-family lets. We look at the financial reality, the grey areas, and what it all means for renters trying to find somewhere stable to live.
Brighton's rental market has been squeezing people out for years, but where exactly are they ending up? We looked beyond the city limits to find the villages, market towns, and coastal spots absorbing the overflow — and what renters are really giving up, and gaining, by making the move.
Inheriting a family home in Brighton sounds like a windfall — until you're standing in a living room full of memories and no clear plan. Thousands of local families are caught between selling, renting, and simply not knowing, leaving period properties half-occupied and slowly deteriorating. Here's an honest look at what's really going on, and how some families are buying themselves time without losing ground.