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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I was trying to reach the house where my podiatrist works – it’s on a housing estate; one that has been gradually extended to take in a large field, creating several small cul de sacs. The naming of these housing enclaves must have caused a flutter of amusement at the time. Knowing that developers are usually involved in submitting two […]
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I have lived in many homes, starting with family then moving out to a flat before being able to buy houses of my own. I have enough experience of older places to know what it’s like to be faced with an ever increasing list of things that feel suspect and about to break or just never worked for me in […]
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When we first leave home – usually the house our parent have brought us up in, it can be a wrench and causes us, and them, temporary anxiety and permanent money issues! To ensure we get the best for our money, we should really sit and carefully evaluate our actual needs. This is so much easier to say when sat […]
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