Alex Bloxham
Partner, Head of Residential Lettings
Alex and his team have more than doubled their portfolio of properties under letting and management over the last five years.
Alex and his team have more than doubled their portfolio of properties under letting and management over the last five years.
Approachable and unfussy, Alex doesn’t rush a conversation for a quick win – he likes to do his research. He comes armed with comparable investments, local tenant demographic, current market conditions and yields, and foresight for capital growth. He goes above and beyond equipping you to make lucrative investment choices.
Letting award-winning multi-acre properties overlooking the idyllic countryside, to stylish contemporary blocks of apartments for major developers, Alex has supported a whole host of landlords and tenants, from college bursars to Saudi princes. He makes genuine friends with many of his clients, who return to Alex year after year.
With the developing science and technology cluster in Cambridge attracting a fresh demographic, and opportunities gaining momentum between the picturesque broads and coastline of Norfolk, Alex is enhancing the portfolios of some of most exciting investors.
Excellent in all aspects - responsive, straight-forward and courteous, as well as looking after the best interests of our tenants.
Summer Surge: Why the Rental Market Heats Up When the Temperature Rises
Here’s a fun peek into why summer is the busiest time of the year in the rental market and what that means for everyone involved.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Autumn 2023
Our latest report on the residential rental market.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Summer 2023
Our latest report on the residential rental market.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Spring 2023
The UK economic outlook is brighter than previously expected, with only a small contraction in growth of 0.2% expected this year.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Winter 2023
The persistent stock shortages experienced in the Cambridge rental market continued in the final quarter of 2023.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Winter 2022
Q4 2022 saw greater stability following the economic and political turmoil of Q3. Swap and mortgage rates stabilised with expectations for more measured base rate increases. 2023 has continued in a similar vein with signs inflation may be stabilising.
Bidwells Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Autumn 2022
Three months is a long time in politics, and the housing market. While economic uncertainty loomed prior to the summer of political turmoil, events compounded the challenging backdrop.
Bidwells Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report Summer 2022
While ahead of pre-pandemic levels, lettings activity in the first half of 2022 was slightly down on 2021 due to market-wide stock shortages, placing upward pressure on rents.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Autumn 2021
While the summer months may not have seen the wholesale return of tourists to the city centre, day-to-day activity did resume with strong levels of activity in both the employment and housing markets. Existing pressures on rental stock accelerated with new workers adding to the usual summer uptick in activity in advance of the new school year.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Autumn 2021
While the summer months may not have seen the wholesale return of tourists to the city centre, day-to-day activity did resume with strong levels of activity in both the employment and housing markets. Existing pressures on rental stock accelerated with new workers adding to the usual summer uptick in activity in advance of the new school year.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Summer 2021
The centre of Cambridge has come to life again over recent months joining the city’s science and business parks which have remained active during the COVID-19 crisis. Read how the residential market is performing in Bidwells' latest residential rental market report.
Five reasons the rental market in Cambridge is booming right now
The Cambridge rental market is booming right now. Everything from studio apartments, city centre townhouses, to rural village homes are being snapped up quicker than landlords can list them, with many properties being let off-market to appease renters’ insatiable appetite, and rental values being driven up by the demand. But what is propelling such a thriving market?
Homes after lockdown - Cambridge survey report
Over the last year, our homes have doubled-up as workplaces, classrooms and, for those shielding, become the extent of their world.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Spring 2021
The economic and human costs of the COVID-19 crisis deepened during the fourth quarter as we embarked nationally on a second, and now, third lockdown period. Cambridge has remained at the centre of the pandemic response with activity continuing in the city’s university R&D buildings and across its science parks and quarters.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Winter 2020
2020 will be remembered in history for many reasons. The completion of the protracted Brexit withdrawal negotiations first quarter was shortly followed by the arrival of COVID-19 with all the heartbreak and economic trauma that came in its wake.
Cambridge Residential Rental Market, Autumn 2020
Along with the rest of the country, day-to-day life in Cambridge remains overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Cambridge rental market
Rental values have increased by approximately 3% in the last 12 months with an average rent of just over £1250pcm in Cambridge, with Bidwells averaging over £1500pcm.
Cambridge's best kept secrets: Petersfield
Week two of Bidwells regular look at Cambridge’s hidden secrets sees Alex Bloxham welcome Silicon Valley’s finest to Victorian Mill Road.