by Zen | Oct 2, 2020 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, Home insulation, House Prices, Repairs and maintenance, Selling your home, Valuations
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...
by Zen | Sep 18, 2020 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, Home insulation, House Prices, Repairs and maintenance, Selling your home, Valuations
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...
by Zen | Aug 27, 2020 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, Home insulation, House Prices, Repairs and maintenance, Selling your home, Valuations
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...
by Ian | Jun 17, 2019 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Selling your home
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...
by Ian | Jun 10, 2019 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Selling your home
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 Ian | May 2, 2019 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports
The only law that applies when buying property is the law of the jungle – better known as “Buyer beware”. Why book a survey? If you buy a cereal bar and it turns out to be stale or mouldy, the full force of the law will be on your side. You can...
