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Shared ownership is simple and it works. I feel passionate about it and its ability to help first time buyers who can't otherwise afford to buy a home.
Selling a home is stressful -- hair-pulling and sleepless nights stressful. Getting the most out of your estate agent is vital in making the process as painless as possible; that begins with choosing the right agent, one who will be with you every step of the way. Here are 4 questions you need to ask.
Finding a property to rent can be a daunting task, and after all the appointments, viewings and offers you are sure to be relieved once you have finally secured your ideal home. Your attentions can now be focused on moving in, but before you consider how to get that piano through the door, there are a few things you should find out from your landlord.
One of the key areas of concern with Help to Buy is the second home option. This is obviously aimed at people who do not need help to get on the ladder and encourages the greed culture of owning multiple properties which could be a pitfall in the recovery of the property market. The recession should have taught people that a house is a home first and foremost- unfortunately this scheme has the potential to produce collective amnesia.
In truth, Council Tax is up there with sprouts, MOTs and queueing among the most frustrating things in everyday life, so here's a brief guide to some of the changes in 2013/14 and a few tips to make Council Tax as painless as possible.
Judging from that very unscientific study, it's plain to see the vast majority of private landlords won't even consider a pet. I can only speak as a cat owner, but by ruling out pets altogether, I think landlords are blindly excluding a large pool of potentially great tenants.
London is definitely the city of opportunities - I just wish it would start giving the 20-something generation a little bit of it.
The trend for customers to shop less with their feet and more with their fingers has hastened the demise of recent high street casualties including Jessops, HMV, Blockbuster and Republic. The collapse of these household names is stark evidence of the fundamental shift in how we buy and what we buy.
Renting a home is now more expensive than buying – even though most would-be purchasers are unable to get on the property ladder. According to ne...
Yep, boys and girls, gazumping is here and knocking on the front door of every potential tenant! The former and current scourge of the property sales has transgressed over to the private lettings sector and is showing no sign of leaving.
Police in Ireland are investigating the discovery of a developer believed to have been held hostage for eight months before being found wandering bare...
The interest rate swap mis selling fiasco has been making financial headlines for quite some time, however little has been said about the effect these financial products have had on the property market.
Not only do you save on public transport by working close to home, but you can also save money on expensive food and overpriced lattés. At some point we've all been guilty of spending an eyebrow raising amount of our pay packet on over-priced and over-salted lunch meals.
High house prices are bad for future economic growth of cities such as Oxford because they price people out of the job opportunities that are available within them. This is bad for the individual, bad for businesses in such cities and, as a result, is bad for the economy.
More good news for the housing sector was revealed on Friday as Bovis Homes told markets it had sold more homes for higher prices at the end of 2012, ...
As has been the case in the past, I believe it is the private sector and not the government that will have to lead the country out of recession. Our road networks, canals, water systems and railways - none were the result of government activity.
A property dealer said to be worth £400 million has been given a six-month jail term after a High Court judge ruled that he disobeyed orders to provi...
It is clear that top-down regulation will only serve to deter investors at a time when more, not less, investment is needed. Instead, the mayor's proposals aim to work towards an improved private rented offer by putting Londoners and landlords in the driving seat.
We need to re-think how we view property. So here's a thought for 2013 - why don't we stop focusing on capital growth and see property instead as a potential income generator?
I am by no means an economist (and I have the utmost respect for those foolhardy enough to be so at this time), but as an independent online estate agent, I like to look at the market myself and see what I can decipher from the tangle of predictions for the year ahead.
Living situations are one of the most important and impacting factors for students, and the hardest to get right. Most of my friends have either found that perfect living partnership, or its been disastrous from beginning to end. I belong to the latter party, the one who's dreams never seem to come true.
There is nothing wrong with aspiration. It is something that I believe in strongly; there is nothing wrong with the aspiration to own your own home. However, it is not acceptable to meet this aspiration by denying the rights of those who must rent.
Wealth is a topic of much debate. Some people want to know how to become wealthy and some think it should not exist at all. I think there is an assumption that wealth is uniform in nature. I personally do not agree with that view. I classify the divisions of wealth into two categories, progressive wealth and oppressive wealth.
The former home of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been snapped up just three weeks after going on the market. The detached house in the Merchi...
Losing a home can be right up their with death, divorce and joblessness. Our homes are places we go to escape the world. When they are under threat, it can be horribly traumatic.
