Home & Property Markets | House Buying & Improvements

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]