There is no other purchase in our lives more important or expensive than buying a property. We tend to think of buying, mostly with a mortgage in this country, rather than renting, which they do so much in most other countries. Owning our own plot and that brick and glass home is so vital to our feeling of belonging and […]
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There are so many elements to refurbishing and renovation of a family home. New modern materials for interior construction are constantly coming to the market and it can be quite bewildering to the novice house owner. I’m always fascinated by the projects put forward on the lifestyle programmes that feature houses either bought at auction – mostly in an appalling […]
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The way our homes are constructed has changed dramatically over the years – in fact the earliest of mankind huddled together in caves and under trees. No one would have thought back then, thousands of years, that they’d ever be living in such comfort as we do now. The differences in the last century have also been been pretty dramatic […]
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I have been looking at my house lately – not that I’m completely unfamiliar with it of course. But after nearly twenty years, it’s beginning to show a little justified aging. I’ve not actually considered the design concept of the lovely comfortable family exec home. It still looks very nice, airy & attractive. My wonderment and anxiety concerns the actual […]
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The difference in the way we deal with properties is often not clear from the use of vocabulary. There is a world of differnce between refurbishment / renovation and restoration / renewing something or somewhere. A local heritage house has had a vast amount of lottery funding spent on it to stop it rotting in certain areas and to bring […]
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Knowing your property market is not something you can pick up just like that. The experienced estate agent, will have to sell many a house before they get the knowledge needed to appreciate the buying trends that affect their job. What I find most facinating about the north american system is the short time allowance for selling and moving in […]
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The construction of houses is such a high tech industry these days. When you think back to all those old cottages from chocolate box covers and historic towns, there can’t have been a great deal of planning involved. It is incredible how old some of our country’s prettiest country buildings really are. Thinkng of the thatched cottages we fondly remember […]
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I was watching a programme online about construction and home development in Canada the other week. They have a completely different lifestyle over there and amazing to think that their entire population is only just over half of Great Britain’s. There can’t be a feeling overcrowding there, for sure. I am interested in the country having watched quite a few […]
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I’ve just spent a wonderful few weeks in the States with family. I did a great deal of getting myself to various museums and galleries with the help of a certain taxi company and when I wasn’t engaged in such culterally pleasing pursuits, I lazed around in my flat watching some of the endless round of home and property based […]
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According to the press there has been a drop in the house buying figures for two quarters and in the old days (1980s to 2000s) this would generally start to panic some folk. But with everything financial, there are both sides to this. Although the housing market looks like it has stalled for a while, there will be lots of […]
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