Sarah Clark

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...

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...

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...

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...

Renters: What To Do When Something Needs Fixing The boiler stops. There is a patch spreading on the bathroom ceiling. The back door has stopped locking properly. Most tenants do the same thing at this point. They send a text, or...

Buyers: What A Survey Really Tells You About Older Homes The survey arrives as a PDF, usually late in the afternoon, and it is longer and more alarming than anybody expects. Somewhere in it, almost guaranteed, will be a...

Owners: Improve Or Move? How To Decide Now Every homeowner arrives at this question eventually, usually standing in a kitchen that has stopped working for the family in it. Do we spend the money here, or do we spend it moving?...

Renters: How To End Your Tenancy Under New Rules New job. Bigger place. Moving in with someone. Sooner or later every renter hands back the keys, and the rules around leaving changed this year. Here's the position in one...

Should Sellers Wait For The Budget Before Listing? The Autumn Budget lands on Wednesday 28 October. If you are thinking of selling, someone has probably already told you to wait and see. It sounds sensible. For most sellers, it...

Landlords: Get Your Rental Property Winter-Ready This October Ask any letting agent when the phone starts ringing and they will give you the same answer. The first cold snap. Boilers that limped through summer give up the day the...