Pearson Ferrier Estate Agents

Pearson Ferrier Commercial in recycling success story

With the current pressure to be environmentally friendly, we are delighted to announce Pearson Ferrier Commercial have re-let prime town centre retail premises on Silver Street to a ‘Cartridge World’ franchisee. The unit let was originally occupied by ‘Burning Desire’ fireplaces for over fifteen years who have expanded their business and moved to larger premises [...]

If buying your first home, feels too much like a leap of faith, call us we might be able to help!!

It seems that there is an appetite for people to become homeowners, based on several items of research, many people (over 80% of you!), would like to own their own homes but feel they lack the financial muscle to jump onto the first rung of the housing ladder, a step which seems to many, to [...]

Will Saunders heads up our Fine & Country Bolton Office

Will has over 24 years experience across a wide sector of the property market, and more importantly, over the last 7 years Will has specialised in high value property in the Bolton area, particularly Lostock and Heaton a place he calls home. He has a reputation for having an uncanny understanding of his buyers needs [...]

Is searching for your new home a bit like finding an oasis in the desert?

Despite turning as many stones as we can in search of a positive news story, it is hard to ignore some of the latest statistics produced by some credible sources, Estate Agent Today ran a recent headline with regard to the current level of sales activity, presently less than 50% from the peak of 2007 [...]

Gold standard from Pearson Ferrier

We are delighted to have been recognised as a market leader in the specialist field of selling the areas ‘Finest’ property, by one of our fiercest critics, our own organisation. After our annual appraisal, here at Fine & Country Homes from Pearson Ferrier our specialist homes division, we were delighted to have been awarded the [...]

We’ve got it covered… a property for everyone

Whether you are an owner looking to sell, a purchaser looking to buy, a landlord looking to let, a tenant looking to rent, or thinking of buying or selling a business, we think we’ve got it covered by having a property for everyone……log on to www.pearsonferrier.co.uk to find out which office you need and get [...]

Its about time we moved on, 2007 is history… use your common sense and come and have a cuppa

I am guilty of following several supposed experts in the property field to try and find out what gems of information might be out there, in an attempt to second guess what the market is about to do, to date they just serve to confuse me, and possibly you too. The FTSE, I’m not expert [...]

Inspirational moments… Helen Skelton is girl on a wire

Here at Pearson Ferrier, we try and steer clear of making any kind of political statement or following the band wagon of public opinion, we make as much effort as possible to sponsor local people and events all year, most of which go unannounced, but with the current problems being endured throughout the globe, which [...]

Is this the end of the Ice Age? Maybe first time buyers aren’t extinct after all…

I have no doubt that we have all enjoyed the glorious sunshine of the last few days, feeling the sun on your back makes the world feel a whole lot better place to be in and distracts us from what at times can feel like a daily grind under the constant barrage of doom and [...]

Putting things in perspective… 100km walk to school?

When you have to set off the week before school starts, on ‘The Chadar’ or 100km walk to school, down a frozen river, whilst avoiding avalanches and freezing conditions, perhaps puts certain things in to perspective for many of us. Whilst by our own standards, we are enduring problems of differing degree’s, its maybe because [...]

So what actually was the headline? Try surfing instead…

BBC Business posted this headline on the 18th Feb; UK mortgage lending fell 13% in January, CML says UK mortgage lending fell by 13% in January compared with December to the lowest level for a year at £9.2bn, lenders say. This was still 5% higher than the same month a year earlier, the Council of [...]

If it’s your first time, don’t worry we’ll be gentle, if you’ve done it before please come in and see us anyway!!

This week love is in the air, and here at Pearson Ferrier we are hosting a series of Open Days across our branches where you are guaranteed to find the property of your dreams! The Open Days will be hosted at the company offices based in Bury, Ramsbottom, Radcliffe and Prestwich our first one will [...]

Do surveyors actually value, and why expert advice should come from the appropriate experts

I have been involved in property for over 20 years, and one thorny subject affecting every estate agent, vendor and purchaser alike I know of, is the one of value. By definition valuation is subjective, an opinion, so on this basis will vary from one person to the next, so value by its very nature [...]

An Englishman’s Home is his castle, but in the current economic climate, does he (she!), own it or rent it?

It seems a lot of us spend our time glued to the television, internet or the radio listening or looking out for the slightest bit of good news or positive reporting, certainly in times of hardship and difficulty. A comment made on the radio this morning I thought was pretty accurate, was that if you [...]

What happens after the fireworks – if your curious give us a call?

Well we hope you have had a great Christmas and and good start to the New Year, despite the *****y snow! December seemed to absolutely fly past and New Year came and went, now reality sinks in and for most of us we are back to work, after a long break during the festive season [...]

‘Out of chaos comes creativity…

Having achieved the former you should be in with a chance of the latter’, profound words indeed from my brilliant former English teacher from the Derby High School. I probably didn’t appreciate the depth of the words at the time, but perhaps with hindsight no truer words could be spoken under the current environmental and [...]

A home for everyone!

Whilst you are enjoying the break over the festive period, please take the time to browse our website, whether you are thinking of buying or renting, going upmarket, downsizing or after a renovation project to create your own ‘Grand Design’ we honestly believe we have a property for everyone, so enjoy your holidays, indulge yourself [...]

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein

With hindsight, there are probably many things, that we as a business might have done differently over the last few years, but learning from our past experiences, planning for the future and looking ahead to the marketplace of tomorrow is perhaps were we are best served with a good balance of positive thinking and optimism. [...]

Northern Soul

Despite the seemingly endless negative media surrounding the housing market, here at Pearson Ferrier, we seem to have had a month to defy the critics and the season, a fantastic month for sales agreed and yet again a consistently high number of lettings agreed, listening to Chris Evans breakfast show yesterday as he played ‘The [...]

Homes Under The Hammer

On the back of our desire to continue to be market leaders and offer a complete property service, covering all spects of the housing market, both in terms of commercial and residential, we are delighted to offer Auctioneering Services, so if you are considering selling and would like to consider the auction route for any [...]

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

If you say it often enough, inevitably it will happen. There seems to be momentum with the suggestion that prices next year will ultimately fall by somewhere in the region of 5% in the view of most of the informed experts, this may or may not happen with the best will in the world the [...]

2 Million Pound Day!!!!

Despite the gloom persistently hammered out by the media, the pragmatic stamina from the team at the Pearson Ferrier Group has brought about a record day in the face of adversity – £2,000,000 worth of property sales in one day. With the economic forecast’s of low interest rates till the 3rd quarter of 2011, maybe [...]

How to ride the buy-to-let property boom

This was the headline in this weekends Sunday Times, I certainly hope I havent fallen foul of any copyright laws, but this picture of their article seems to confirm that our decision back in July of this year to host our Buy-To-Let seminar in conjunction with Pearson Ferrier Financial Services, with hindsight was certainly the [...]

Let’s Rock

The transformation and redevelopment of Bury Town Centre is complete. Amongst the sixty shops, large stores, restaurants and leisure facilities, The Rock also includes four blocks of apartments. The highly anticipated development is being released in phases commencing with 113 one and two bedroom apartments by Miller Homes. Pearson Ferrier are proud and delighted to [...]

Commercial Success

Pearson Ferrier’s new specialist Commercial Property department was unveiled in July and over the last eight weeks has sold and rented a range of offices, retail, public houses and industrial property across the North Manchester and Lancashire area. Commercial Property and Business Owners are seeing the value provided by our dedicated professional organisation on a [...]

Fine & Country Homes new Bolton office

Welcome to Fine & Country Homes from Pearson Ferrier, our office’s are located in the historic unspoilt mill town of Ramsbottom, nestling in the West Pennine Moors close to the highly regarded East Lancs Steam Railway Station and in the heart of Bolton’s professional community on Chorley New Road. The office’s cover North Manchester crossing [...]

‘REDUCED’

If you are searching for some of our most recently discounted properties, in the property search facility, use the word ‘reduced’ as one of your key words and this will highlight a list of our reduced properties.

Standing room only…

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the Pearson Ferrier Financial Services Seminar, we had the room booked for 50 and in the end we had close to 70 people and had to ask some of our clients old and new to stand at the back of the room. [...]

‘Lets Rock’

This weeks see’s the launch of Bury’s multi million pound newly re-developed town centre, with over 1.6 million square feet of retail and leisure space. This landmark develpment wil breathe new life into Bury town centre and offer exciting new retail opportunities, but will also offer the possibility of town centre living. We are delighted [...]

We are delighted to announce the launch of Top O’Th Knotts

Fine & Country Homes in conjunction with Vita Natura presents a stylish collection of contemporary homes, in a rural setting on the outskirts of Harwood near Bolton; only thirty minutes from the vibrant centre of Manchester. The homes fuse traditional materials alongside modern light décor to create truly luxurious andcontemporary countryside living. The homes overlook [...]

Pearson Ferrier go ‘Back to School’

Mitchell Pearson from the Bury office of Pearson Ferrier was recently asked to attend a class at Springside School in Walmersley and assist the pupils in a project to create a sales brochure for a ‘pretend’ sale of the school building.

Buy To Let Investors Seminar

Pearson Ferrier Financial Services will be holding their 2nd seminar on Thursday 15th July at The Red Hall Hotel & Restaurant. This 2nd seminar will be covering the topic of the ‘Buy To Let’ market and will target new investor landlords and those with more experience who are looking to expand their exisiting portfolio’s or [...]

Record start to lettings with nearly 300 new tenancies starting in the first quarter of 2010…

In the wake of the aftermath of the housing market crash, the success of Pearson Ferrier Residential Lettings continues to break previous records, even with the improvement in the residential sales markets the demand for rental property remains strong. In the first quarter of the year we nearly broke all previous records by agreeing just [...]

Fine & Country latest news – £10 million pounds worth of sales!!

We are delighted to announce the latest results from our specialist Fine & Country Homes Division, who in the first 4 months of this year were extremely close to agreeing sales on £10,000,000 pounds worth of property and this is the perfect opportunity to announce the opening in August of our 2nd Fine & County [...]

Spring Update

After a quieter start in April, possibly due to pre-election nerves or ash in the system, the April activity is finally beginning to bloom, as the good weather appears to have finally brought people back in to the housing arena with some frantic activity…

Bury & Ramsbottom Artweek

Artists from inside and outside the region are joining together to display and sell their work. The main Art Exhibition will be held in two impressive locations; Bury Art Gallery and the Fusiliers Museum on Moss Street. In Ramsbottom, we already have several businesses…

As we move into Spring the outlook is positive…

Despite the onslaught of snow at the start of the year, the activity in the housing market has gradually improved steadily throughout the first quarter of 2010 and here at Pearson Ferrier we are remaining quietly optimistic that this year may see a level of activity that will inspire…

Welcome to the Blog

As you can see the Pearson Ferrier website has had a bit of a facelift. As well as new and improved search facility we also now have this blog which we will be updating regularly with the latest news from Pearson Ferrier. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date with the latest goings on…

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