Home & Property Markets | House Buying & Improvements

Where I live in my lovely comfortable family home, I am constantly grateful for the space, the warmth and convenience of having a home constructed to the latest building methods available in the early 2000s!  So long ago my first rented home was an attic flat in a rather run down victorian semi detached villa – the landlord lived on […]

There has never been as much building and refurbishment work carried out in this area since we moved in some years ago.  It was a top end development of executive style 4 and 5 bedroomed detached, and assumed we would find satisfaction in every aspect of our chosen property.  Our family home has always felt spacious and perfectly adequate.  The […]

When we moved into this house nearly twenty years ago, it was brand new and we’d had to wait for the developers to finish this phase of 4 houses.  We were rookies at the ‘buying new’ game and thoroughly enjoyed the process.  Each stage was exciting, from the surprise visit to the sales office and show house right the way […]

When you live in an area for many years, you don’t always notice the changes folk make to their houses unless you take the same walks every week.   I had this recently when caring for a family dog.  It gave me the opportunity to walk around parts of the estate to get to the neighbouring country pathways.  I was fascinated […]

We have had a really strange year so far.  The pandemic has of course altered all the normal ways we would operate and many changes in construction have had to take place.  The housing market in general had to come to a complete halt for a period until the government allowed the resumption of building of new houses.  Now that […]

There had been quite a boom in the construction and housing market over the last five years or so.  The country was beginning to get on its feet quite substantially and the need for more housing brought forward help to buy schemes from the government.   But this suddenly and dramatically stalled when the virus pandemic hit the UK shores and […]

We are currently going through the most challenging of times in every aspect of life.  This is not limited to trading and keeping companies going but affects every part of the globe.  So companies that can stay in business need to do their utmost to fulfill their quoted obligations.  Where they have started a project, there has to be some […]

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 […]

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 […]