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 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...
You’ve Moved In To Your Home… …But There’s Still Post-Completion Legal Work To Do At long last you can start enjoying your new home, and perhaps start arranging that house warming party! Or you might want to swing into action...
Completion Day – Arriving At Your New Home Assuming the completion money has been successfully transferred, upon arrival you should now be proudly grasping the keys to your new home. With a bit of luck the removal van’s satnav will have directed them to...
New Planning Rules – Is The Freedom to Add 2 Extra Floors To Your House A Good Idea? The BBC have announced that the government are intending to relax ‘Permitted Development’ planning rules so that homeowners in England will be...
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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