Stand on the pavement and look up at your roof. From there, you can usually pick out the front slope
Set a two-bedroom flat built in 2015 beside a Victorian terrace with a cellar and a century of alterations behind
Many buyers fall for an older house on the strength of a single detail: a run of sash windows, a
Picture a buyer opening a long survey report at the kitchen table, late at night, the night before exchange. Thirty
The estate agent’s particulars will describe it as “a charming Grade II listed cottage, full of period character”. They will
Every winter, we hear the same complaints. The back bedroom never warms up properly. The heating bills keep rising. There
Ask two surveyors to quote for a building survey, one on a two-bedroom flat and the other on a Victorian
Help to Buy scheme closed to new applications in October 2022. But the loans remain for thousands of homeowners. Selling,
Few people plan for a formal property valuation in their moving budget. Then a letter arrives asking for one. It
Ask three people what a property is worth and three different figures come back. An estate agent offers one, a