Sealed bids – What they are & playing the game to win
Agents have another trick up their sleeves that’s guaranteed to boost prices when several buyers are after the same property. Going to ‘sealed bids’ involves asking all the hopeful purchasers to formally submit their ‘best and final offer’ confidentially in writing by...
How To Find The Right Property For You
Finding the right property for you and your situation isn’t the easiest thing to do and initially choosing a new home even sounds like fun. Snooping around other people’s houses promises at the very least to provide hours of cheap entertainment (judging by the...
Working Up An Offer – Paying the right price for the right property
Buying a property is a nerve-wracking business at the best of times, but now we come to the crunch – pitching your offer. By now, after weeks or months of gruelling house-hunting, you probably have a pretty shrewd idea how much you’re prepared to pay. But the process...
Buying A Flat Over A Commercial Premises
If you’re on a tight budget, buying a flat above a parade of shops should make your money go further. Depending on the type of business underneath, you can save between 10 and 20 per cent of the price of an equivalent property on a local residential street. You’re...
The Ultimate Home Buyers Viewing Checklist
House-hunting can be an exhausting business. You may like the look of a property on paper, but estate agents’ particulars and brochures don’t tell the full story. Even online virtual tours won’t give an honest ‘warts and all’ picture, so it’s essential to discover...Save money by cutting out the banks
By arranging your home survey directly online - rather than via a mortgage lender - you can save the large chunk of the survey fee that the banks normally keep. They may still want to instruct a valuer to carry out their mortgage valuation, but don’t let them try to sell you an expensive Homebuyer or Building Survey from one of the large, target-driven, corporate firms on their 'panel'.
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