In practice, of course, it’s too soon to tell. Nevertheless, I think it’s fair to say that opinion – at least, within the industry – is fairly evenly divided. Naturally, all the headlines have been about the scrapping of Stamp Duty on the first £300...
Q. When would be the best time to let prospective buyers look round my home? A. This is the sort of question that estate agents are always being asked – another example being...
Q. When selling your home, is ambience really as important as some people think? A. To be honest, until relatively recently, the word barely featured in the vocabulary of British estate agents at all! It was really only when people...
I have heard rumours that the Government is planning to change the rules governing Energy Performance Certificates for rented properties. What’s going on? I think you must be talking about the Government’s proposal to introduce a minimum energy performance...
We want to move house, but the prospect of tackling all the stuff we’ve managed to accumulate over the years is distinctly off-putting! Is this normal? Very! In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the prospect of having to deal with all the accumulated lumber in the...
I recently made the first (admittedly quite low) offer on a property, but when another buyer came in higher, the agent asked for best and final bids. I offered the most – above the original asking price, in fact – but incredibly, I still lost out to the other person...
Some landlords seem to believe that insuring properties that they don’t actually live in themselves is simply a waste of money - particularly if they are let unfurnished. Not so! Of course, if you have a mortgage on a rental property, you will automatically be...