Selling Your Property – What’s Involved? In most cases, the biggest obstacle to successfully moving home is the problem of first having to dispose of your existing property. Unless you live in rented accommodation or you’re a first-time buyer or an...
What The New ‘Green Homes’ Grant Actually Pays The Government have now released details about the much trumpeted ‘Green Homes Grants’. You can check if you’re eligible and see what improvements can be made to your home on the...
Help To Buy – what happens if house prices drop? Help To Buy was launched by the Government in 2013. The idea behind it was to help people buy a new home without having to save a huge deposit, typically 20% or more of the value of the property. It’s only...
How Risky Is The New ‘Green Homes Grant Scheme’ ? Last time the government subsidised a national home insulation programme the quality of workmanship in many cases left a lot to be desired. In fact a whole new industry has since been spawned to...
Interpreting surveys Surveyors are sometimes regarded as the ‘Doctor Deaths’ of the property world, with barely a positive word to say. But it’s important to bear in mind that the surveyor’s job is to highlight defects and flag up future maintenance...
What type of surveyor? Surveyors come in assorted shapes and sizes. Anyone can call themselves a ‘surveyor’, a title that’s sometimes adopted by double-glazing salesmen for enhanced credibility. Qualified surveyors, however, are always the chartered variety...
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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