Sarah Clark

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...