Do you buy a home with your heart or your head?
Logic and emotion are often at loggerheads when it comes to house buying! Entering a house that gives you that special feeling is one of life’s greatest...
7 good reasons to be positive about the property market
Positivity is like a fresh spring breeze; it just makes you feel good and clears your head! With so much negativity bandied about in the media, with...
Petrol Down, Rents Up, House Prices Down…
Petrol Down. Diesel Down. Wholesale gas prices down. Rents up. House prices down? Many commentators are saying the outlook for the housing market is......
Is The Housing Market Dropping?
Inflation is predicted to fall because. There is no wage spiralThe Bank of England has stopped QE and is winding it backThe energy spikes are...
Home Buyer Service
Move home faster, cheaper, and with less stress. Guaranteed. Everything you’ll need to purchase a property, all packaged into one, simple service...
Mini-Budget 2022: 6 Key Things You Need To Know
The Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has presented a mini-budget in advance of the normal autumn review, with measures to help promote growth during the cost of...
Reservation Agreement FAQs
Reservation agreements are here to help you to secure your deal and provide you peace of mind. It's important however that all parties involved know...
Managing Damp in Old Buildings
It's inevitable that you will find dampness somewhere in an old house. Nothing lasts forever, but despite English weather, our old buildings stand the test...
£5bn fund confirmed for victims of cladding crisis
“The Chancellor’s announcement that funds are being put into fixing unsafe cladding, is a vital move to help first-time buyers, who have been stuck in...
What is Marriage Value? Leases under 80 years
Marriage value is the increase in the value of the property following the completion of the lease extension, reflecting the additional market value of the...
The fraud of rising damp
Damp Part 2. The fraud of rising dampThis is a quote Rising Damp was invented by the chemical industry. In a particular chemical industry boardroom in 1962...
The big damp swindle
When I bought my first home in the 80’s the surveyor said the property was damp. As was the procedure in those days, I was informed to get a ’timber...
Is it still location, location, location?
Faced with the prospect of a lockdown-free summer, buyers are anxious to move quickly, resulting in record numbers paying over asking price to secure their...
A guide to your property valuation
When it comes to selling your property, it's only natural you want to know all of the facts before beginning. For the majority of us, owning a property...
£150m ‘Help to Build’ scheme to be launched
The government has announced a new ‘Help to Build’ scheme in a bid to make it easier and more affordable for people to build their own...
Get full access to the most powerful property site ever
We’re inviting you to join Boomin – a powerful new property portal we’re working with. Boomin and Mark Beaumont working together offers you a more...
Stamp Duty Holiday extension agreed - but is it a new cliff edge?
Stamp Duty Holiday extension agreed - but is it a new cliff edge? Chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday deadline until the end of June...
Sell Your Home: 6 Signs of a Great Estate Agent!
Whether you’re selling your home in South-East London or looking to rent or buy, choosing a great estate agent is a hugely important part of the...
EASY WAYS TO CUT HEATING COSTS
you can cut heating costs by making a few simple changes that will make your home as energy efficient as possible and save you serious money and ensure...
The Do's And Don’ts of Remortgaging Your Property
There are many reasons why you may need to remortgage your property at some point in your life, so here’s our top tips on how to remortgage your property...
A Horror Story Not Just At Halloween
A Horror Story ALL South East Homeowners Need To Read In this terrifying three-minute true story, we reveal how a South-East London family endured a...
Homeowners tricked into paying higher commissions by overvaluing their homes.
Homeowners could be tricked into paying higher rates of commission due to expensive agents misleading them over their properties’ values. The estate...
Properties priced correctly sell in half the time
Rightmove have done extensive research into the effect that asking prices have on a property’s likeliness to sell. Approximately 300,000 properties were...
The benefits of an accurate home selling valuation
Before you sell your home it’s highly important to get an accurate valuation. Getting its true worth allows you to know the amount to expect from it and...
Wondering why your home sale has fallen through?
If you think that all the house sale deals go through, then you are wrong. Yes, you may come into a common understanding with a potential home buyer, but...
What to do if your home isn’t generating any interest
According to reports concluded in the past year, it takes an average of about 100 days to sell a property in the UK. What could be the cause? Several...
Preparing your home for sale
When it comes to moving home, you are probably more focused on what you want from your new house rather than thinking about the sale of your old house. But...
Keeping things moving when you are in a property chain
A chain is where there are a number of different buyers and sellers all buying one property and selling their own. At one end of the chain, there will...
How to Price Your Home to Attract the best Offers
Setting the right price for your home is the single most important decision you will make when deciding to sell. Go too high, and you risk turning off...
Property Marketing, property portals and the change which has already happened.
Pound for Pound, digital marketing is far more effective, it is the future vs the past. In the same way as the portals killed off newspaper...
Successfully timing a purchase and a sale
In an ideal world, you’d sell your home the minute you put it on the market and then have all the time you need to find your next dream home while your...
HOME SEARCH SERVICE - Change the way you move
Be one step ahead Stay up to date with when we bring a new property to market or when something you like is about to sell. You can also learn about...
Stamp Duty Holiday. Save £thousands.
There is a small window to benefit from this, stamp duty set to 0% for the first £500,000. If you were thinking about moving, then you really need to...
What are the most popular things people look for in a new home?
If you're thinking of selling your home, it helps to know exactly what most buyers are looking for when they walk through the door. So we've looked at the...
Government Guidelines When Buying & Selling Property
The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This came...
New Year Housing Market 2020
2020 = Looking positive. 2019 = annus horribilis in the words of our Queen. Since the election result at the end of 2019 we have already noticed...
EXPERIENCE MATTERS WHEN SELLING
Moving home is a big decision, for some, it’s once in a lifetime. Even if you’re a few months or several years away from putting a For Sale sign in...
MARKET UPDATE PRE-BREXIT MARCH 2019 THE RIGHT TIME TO SELL COULD IT BE 2019?
2018 was a very testing time to sell. Rightmove (other portals are available on the market) published stats showing the average length of time for...
Estate agents who overprice properties cost sellers £4.3bn
Estate agents who routinely overvalue properties are potentially leaving many homeowners worse off as they can be forced to make huge price cuts in order...
Estate agents who overprice properties cost sellers £4.3bn
Estate agents who routinely overvalue properties are potentially leaving many homeowners worse off as they can be forced to make huge price cuts in order...