Latest on the ‘Green Homes’ Grant Scheme
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...
Making Money From Property – 5 More Surveyors’ Tips
Making More Money From Property Continued – See previous blog for Tips 1 to 5 6. Design It Right House buyers are often influenced by first impressions of things like nice décor and cleanliness. So it pays to focus on improvements that add value in the...
Making Money From Property – Top 10 Tips
Making Money From Property by Chartered Surveyor Ian Rock MRICS Earning mountains of cash from trading or renovating property can appear deceptively easy on primetime TV shows. But ‘property soaps’ have a tendency to distort the truth. Condensing a major...
Help To Buy – what happens if house prices fall?
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...
Is Change Finally Coming To The Leasehold System?
The Risks Of Buying Leasehold – And Why Things May Be About To Change? More than 4 million homeowners have properties which are owned on a leasehold basis, rather than Freehold. Leasehold tenure normally applies to flats, where although the purchasers have...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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