Sarah Clark

Selling An Empty Home? Avoid These Costly Mistakes An empty house sounds like the easy version of selling. No tidying before viewings, no dashing out with the dog while strangers wander round your kitchen. In practice, empty homes...

The Ten-Minute Security Check For Your Home This Autumn By the end of this month it will be dark before teatime. And an unlit house at 6pm tells anyone who cares to look that nobody is home. October is National Home Security...

Rental Security: What Landlords Owe And Tenants Must Do A lock breaks. A side gate won't bolt. The outside light has been dead since March. In a rented home, whose job is that? It is one of the questions we get asked most, and...

Selling This Winter? How To Master After-Dark Viewings This Sunday, 25 October, the clocks go back an hour. By Monday teatime it will be getting dark, and by November most weekday viewings will happen with the curtains drawn and...

Sellers: Quiet Weeks On The Market Are Normal Nobody warns you about the strange bit in the middle. Your home goes live, there's a flurry of interest, and then, some weeks, nothing. A promising viewing goes silent. An offer...

Landlords: The True Cost Of An Empty Rental Forget ghosts and creaking floorboards. The thing that genuinely haunts landlords is simpler: an empty property, eating money in the dark. A void period, if you are new to the term, is...

What Really Scares Buyers Off A Home This Halloween It's Halloween week, so let's talk about fear. Not the plastic-spider kind. The kind that makes a buyer who loved your home on Tuesday go quiet by Friday. Here's the twist most...

Clocks Gone Back? Make Your Home Glow This Winter The clocks went back on Sunday, Halloween is on Saturday, and it is now properly dark by teatime. Whatever you think of winter, it has arrived, and your home is where you will...

Rental Property Register Update: New Landlord Guidance Explained The rollout of the Register Your Rental Property Scheme starts next month. Here’s a rundown, based on new government guidance, on how it will work. Plans for a...

Your First Home: Everything We Know So Far About the New First-Time Buyers Scheme The government has finally fleshed out how its new first-time buyer scheme will work. Here’s what you need to know. Your First Home will give...