Moving House Mid Term? How Families Make It Work Everybody means to move in the summer holidays. It is the plan every family starts with. Six clear weeks, no uniforms, no school run, unpack in August and walk into September like...
Selling This September? Here Is Your Christmas Deadline There is a phone call we take every year in the first week of September. Someone has decided, somewhere between the last barbecue and the first uniform run, that this is the...
Landlords: How To Answer A Tenant's Pet Request The message usually arrives on a Sunday evening, and it is always polite. "We have been thinking about getting a dog. Would that be OK?" Since 1 May 2026, how you answer that is no...
What Every Homeowner Should Expect from an Estate Agent Estate agents do not always have the best reputation, and it is worth being honest about that. In its 2025 Veracity Index, published in December 2025, Ipsos found that public...
The Real Cost of Choosing an Agent on Fee Alone When you are about to sell, a lower fee is tempting. It feels like the obvious saving. But the agent's fee is one of the few costs in a house sale that can quietly pay for itself...
What a Good Letting Agent Should Do for Landlords If you pay a letting agent to manage your property, it is worth asking a simple question now and then. What am I actually getting for this? A good managing agent earns their fee...
First-Time Buyer or First-Time Renter: Which Makes Sense for You? Moving into your first home is a huge moment, and it usually starts with one big question. Do you rent, or do you try to buy? In 2026, with deposits, mortgage rates...
Down Valuations Explained: What Sellers Should Do You accept an offer. Everyone is delighted. Then a few weeks later the buyer's lender sends a surveyor round, and the property is valued at less than the price you agreed. That is...
Landlords: How to Avoid Deposit Disputes for Good For many landlords, the end of a tenancy is the moment they dread. Will the deposit be returned smoothly, or will it turn into a drawn-out argument? The good news is that disputes...
Grow to Learn: Celebrating National Allotments Week From 10 to 16 August 2026, the country marks National Allotments Week, and this year's theme is a lovely one: 'Grow to Learn'. It is a week that celebrates something easy to...
