A town in Merseyside topped the nationwide list of most sought after places to live last year, with some houses snapped up by keen buyers within a week of being advertised, but considerably little is known about the inner workings of our local property market.
The ECHO spoke to Hannah Wilkinson, assistant manager of the Wallasey office of Karl Tatler, a local estate agents which was slap bang in the middle of the boom that saw house prices in the town rise by almost £25,000. She spoke about the reasons behind Wallasey's sudden popularity, the best parts of her job and the view people often have of estate agents as 'money-grabbing robots'.
Hannah said: "After covid hit the Wallasey property market went mad. We opened [the Wallasey office] just before lockdown.