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Truly the one-stop shop for selling and buying homes.

Gateway Group is proud to introduce the latest addition to our Family of Companies: Quality Street Financial.

Quality Street Financial offers bespoke financial services shaped around your specific needs. We offer expert advice on a wide-range of financial situations, including:

• Independent mortgage advice with access to the whole of the mortgage market
• Applications for home movers and home improvements
• Help to buy, right to buy, buy to let and let to buy applications
• Re-mortgages
• First time buyer applications
• Insurances, including critical illness insurance, life insurance, income protection, building and contents and more
• Family income benefit
• Will advice

All under one roof

Quality Street Financial is part of the qualitystreet.co family, offering estate agents, solicitors and financial services under one roof. Benefit from a streamlined, one-stop shop service when selling or buying your home.

The personal touch

With Quality Street Financial, you’ll benefit from a dedicated mortgage broker who will guide you every step of the way, from initial contact all the way through to your completion and beyond.

Flexibility

Better still, we offer complete flexibility with our services. Whether you prefer your appointments face to face, on the phone or via Zoom, we’ll tailor our service to your needs.

Whole of market

We bring you access to all of the major lenders with our whole of market mortgage advice. We can assist first time buyers, re-mortgages, product transfers, right to buy, help to buy, buy to let and let to buy applications.

Protect what matters

You’ll receive insurance advice from a range of leading providers. We take time to find out what’s important to you. We can arrange life cover, critical illness insurance, income protection, family income benefit and more.

Fully qualified

Our mortgage brokers hold CeMAP Professional status, meaning they are recognised as holding all relevant qualifications to provide advice for mortgages and insurance. You’re in safe hands with Quality Street Financial.

Peace of mind

We use the latest encryption technology to allow you to upload documents securely, avoiding the need to email or post your personal information.

One step ahead

Your journey doesn’t need to end with us once your mortgage has completed. We’ll continue to stay in touch and keep you updated prior to any product renewals.

Get the advice financial advice you need with Quality Street Financial, starting with a FREE initial consultation.

Phone: 01702 443 549

Email: info@qualitystreetfinancial.co

Website: qualitystreetfinancial.co

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This summer, a fun public art event – Hares about Town – is coming to Southend-on-Sea, where our Head Office is located. We’re delighted to be part of it all as corporate sponsors.

After entertaining and bringing people together, the trail of giant Hare sculptures – each one individually designed by an artist – will be auctioned to raise funds for a much-loved local charity, Havens Hospices. We’re proud to support two of the best sculptures (we’re biased, of course). Gateway Group is behind a rather dapper ‘Mr Meadow’, while qualitystreet.co (also part of Gateway) is supporting a dynamic looking and upwardly mobile ‘Jet Hareplane’. Attention-grabbing to say the least.

The free, family-friendly trail of discovery with Wild in Art runs from Saturday 3 July through to September. As well as supporting a great cause, the event will bring lots of positive energy as we leap back (tentatively) from pandemic times.

Look out for the Hare sculptures if you’re local on Southend High Street, The Royals Shopping Centre (Hare Quarters), Rossi ice cream parlours, Havens Hospices shops and elsewhere across the Borough.

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Cosiness and comfort are in, as well as natural, earthy colours and lots of green foliage. ‘Japandi’ is a big thing too.

Bastions of interior styling, Country Living Magazine, highlight natural and earthy colours as being on-trend this summer, a trend echoed elsewhere. Nestling seems to be the thing, with round, organic shapes also proving popular, as well as houseplants, bringing the natural world into our homes. Livingetc, who spoke to designers and stylers, picks out textured walls, natural materials (such as rattan furniture) and sage green for kitchens.

Harking back to the patterns and styles of the past, and simpler times, has dominated Instagram interior posts of late. That’s called ‘Cottagecore’, a version of Granny Chic. Think velvet armchairs, full-length curtains and nostalgic touches through the use of quirky, patterned cushions and accessories. Stylists suggest bringing this look up to date with a few modern pieces of furniture and statement lighting. ‘Japandi’ is equally on-trend, a mix of refined Japanese minimalism and pure Scandinavian simplicity.

Unsurprisingly, creating more formal home working spaces has become a must-have. For the eco-conscious, cork is an environmentally friendly choice (for floors or walls), as well as snapping up second-hand and vintage furniture.

If you’re thinking about a new home, let qualitystreet.co help sell your old one first. We’ll put your home on the market and handle the legal side too for big savings. In no time at all, you’ll be planning your new home’s interior decoration.

See what you could save when selling your home

qualitystreet.co is our combined estate agent and conveyancing service, saving our customers time, money and worry. For a staggeringly low, all-inclusive fixed price, you’ll receive an all-out service from advertising your home in all the popular places to completion. It’s amazing how much you could save, while always being kept up to date on progress.

Streamline the way you sell your home and save with qualitystreet.co!

We’re not interested in being the largest service provider out there, just the best possible partner for all of your property needs. Our Instagram page is a good place to check out the wider Gateway Group.

Besides providing proactive property management, our specialist services include residential lettings, property insurance, surveying and leasehold advice.

We understand just how important property is to individuals and businesses. We know issues arise and we will always do our best to stop matters from becoming problems. Our ethos is consistent across our group: to treat each property under our care as a unique investment and every customer and client as an individual. Our teams share the same commitment to delivering professional, friendly help, nationwide.

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Research sees a brightening outlook for the UK, as residential sales reach new highs.

Knight Frank highlights the surprisingly positive economic rebound to date, with a predicted output growth of nearly 7% this year. The increase is due, in part, to consumers spending some of the record savings built up during lockdown. Alongside stronger retail spending, the easing of the lockdown, reopening of schools and businesses and confidence in the vaccine rollout have all helped the economy to gather speed.

The trend for higher property prices is set to continue as a result of lower mortgage costs, the greater availability of deposits and also the return of low-deposit mortgages since early 2021. According to the BBC, the number of mortgage products available that require a 10% deposit has increased four-fold compared with early autumn last year.

Two key factors support the latest research.

1. Continued low interest rates

Looking at the Bank of England’s current guidance, economists see little movement in the UK’s monetary policy until the Bank’s inflation target, set at 2% by the government, is met. Currently, inflation is around 0.7%, meaning that the base rate is unlikely to change much before 2024/25, with interest rates remaining historically low.

2. Resilience of the job market

Unemployment rates are likely to be less than first predicted, following record levels of redundancies last year hitting young workers (under-25s) particularly hard. The Office for National Statistics reports more stable conditions, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.9% in the three months to February 2021. Job vacancies increased by 16% in March. Knight Frank sees a peak in the rate of 6% in early 2022, factoring in the government’s furlough scheme (due to close at the end of September 2021).The Office of Budget Responsibility forecasts 6.5%, with a fall next year as the economy recovers further.

Although there is still uncertainty, right now is clearly an ideal time to sell a property.

Make big savings selling your home

Quality Street – our combined estate agent and solicitors service – continues to go from strength to strength, saving our customers time and money. Yet another recent sale, this time of a three-bedroom home in Essex, saved our client an incredible £9,100 in estate agent and solicitor fees!

For a cost-effective, all-inclusive fee, you’ll receive a quality service from start to completion. We do all the things you’d expect and more. This covers marketing and advertising your property in all the popular places where buyers look, including on Rightmove, PrimeLocation, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. Your joined-up team will carry out the conveyancing and keep you updated throughout on progress. Be ‘absolutely chuffed’ with an amazing service and savings like Lloyd, another happy Quality Street client.

Streamline the way you sell your home and save.