Sellers: The Checks To Make Before Signing Anything Most people choose an estate agent on a feeling. Three agents come round, one of them seems the most confident, or the most likeable, or quotes the highest figure. A contract...
Property Or Pension? What Owners Should Weigh Up It is UK Savings Week, which makes this a reasonable moment to talk about the conversation we have more than almost any other. Somebody has a bit of money, or is about to. They are...
Landlords: The New Private Rented Database Is Coming There is a change coming for landlords that has had far less attention than it deserves, largely because it does not have a date yet. Every private landlord in England will have...
How To Judge A Neighbourhood Before You Commit People agonise over the house and take the street on trust. It is understandable. The house is what you look at, photograph, measure and lie awake thinking about. The street is just...
Sellers: What Happens Once Your Home Is Listed Your home goes live on a Thursday afternoon. By the following Tuesday, there are three letters on the mat, two of them handwritten, and somebody has knocked on the door to say they...
Landlords: How To Raise The Rent Correctly Now Raising the rent used to be one of those things that often happened by agreement. A conversation, a text, a new figure on the standing order from next month. Since 1 May 2026, that...
Heritage Open Days: Free Local History On Your Doorstep There is a building you drive past every week and have never been inside. A chapel, a mill, an old town hall, a house behind a wall that you have always been mildly curious...
Sellers: What You Must Declare About Your Home The awkward questions shouldn't wait until you've found a buyer Most sellers expect the really detailed questions to come later. Put the house on the market. Find a buyer. Accept an...
Landlords: EPC C By 2030 Is Now Confirmed If you have been half following the EPC story for the last few years, you would be forgiven for thinking nobody knows what is happening. A standard was proposed, then delayed, then...
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...
