by Zen | Sep 12, 2022 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Energy efficiency, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, Repairs and maintenance, Selling your home, Valuations
Find Energy Assessors In this new series, Chartered Surveyor Ian Rock FRICS – Author of the Haynes Home insulation Manual – explains how to cut your energy bills by boosting your home’s thermal efficiency. PART SEVEN: Insulating Your...
by Zen | Jul 7, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
Planning restrictions are not a major obstacle to housebuilding – so why is the government determined to overturn them? If the rate of UK house price increases over the last fifty years were applied to the price of food, then a chicken would today cost £70...
by Zen | Jun 9, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
First Homes – at up to half price On 4th June 2021 the Government launched a new affordable housing scheme known as the ‘First Homes Scheme’. The First Home Scheme entitles first-time buyers who live in a household with a combined income of £80,000 or...
by Zen | May 18, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
It’s not easy being an estate agent! Estate agents frequently find themsleves in the firing line for the failings of others, and have a reputation for disingenuousness second only to politicians and the tabloid press. Marketing properties may be...
by Zen | May 4, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
What exactly do estate agents do? One of the great mysteries of life for many people is what exactly estate agents do for their money. Conventional wisdom has it that they stick a photo of your house online, put another in their shop window and then make a couple of...
by Zen | Apr 13, 2021 | Building Surveys, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Selling your home, Valuations
Loft Conversions have never been more popular – here’s why With so many of us now working from home there’s a massive need for adding ‘office space’. Converting your loft is an obvious solution as as most are just wasted...
