Get A Professional Home Survey Assessment Property Tips by Chartered Surveyor Ian Rock FRICS – from the Haynes House Manual series BUYING PROPERTY How To Pitch Your Offer To Get The Lowest Price Once you’ve found a place you really like (and is...
In today’s “buyers’ market” sellers are having to compete to attract buyers. This means buying should be a lot more enjoyable than selling. But it’s still essential to do your homework first – as there are a lot of pitfalls for...
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...
Finding the right property isn’t as easy or as much fun as it sometimes looks on TV shows. Snooping around other people’s houses promises at the very least to provide hours of cheap entertainment (judging by the number of programmes devoted to the subject). But...
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...
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...
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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