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Our Practical Guide To Property Chains When Buying Or Selling
Moving homes is an exciting experience, especially if you’ve found your dream property, but it can also be a stressful time. If you’re new to buying and selling, property chains can be confusing and quite difficult to understand at first. If you need to sell your home before buying a new one, you’ll probably find yourself in a property chain. In our practical guide, we outline what a property chain is and cover tips for how to manage your property chain. What is a Property Chain? A property chain occurs when a series of homeowners need to sell their homes before they can buy another; this can also happen when…
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Decluttering And Tidying Your Home: A Guide For The Busy Parent
Keeping your home neat and tidy is a never-ending struggle at the best of times. Finding the right methods to deal with your clutter is a fantastic way of tidying up your home and your mind. A fresh and clean living-space makes for a positive and healthy outlook on life—It’s said that clutter may contribute to depression and other negative mental health problems. Of course, keeping your home tidy is much easier said than done as a parent. We wanted to share some of our ideas to help you declutter your home, making it much easier to keep on top of those everyday cleaning tasks. Speedy Organising For a quick…
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3 Ways to Transform Your Bathroom Into Your Own Spa Retreat
After a long week, all you want to do likely is draw yourself a luxurious bath and soak your stress away. However, if your bathroom is dated and looking worse for the wear, being in your bath might cause you to feel more stressed out than you were before. If this is how you feel whenever you walk into your bathroom and you want nothing more than to be able to retreat to your very own spa-like escape at the end of a long day, you might be thinking that the only way to achieve this is to invest time and money into a complete bathroom renovation. While that course…
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How To Care For Your Fruit Trees
Protecting fruit trees usually means preventing the fruit from being eaten by birds and other creatures that love to gorge on free and tasty meals. But damage to fruit trees can also come at any time from fungi and insects that affect the bark or attack the leaves. Pruning carefully and at the right time of year for the type of tree is a good way to prevent fruit tree diseases. That said, a solidly constructed fruit cage combined with some high quality netting will definitely protect the juicy fruits from being eaten before you can get to them. And after all the love and care bringing your fruit trees…
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Buying New? Is It Worth It?
If you have already realized that renting is an unwise investment, and believe that the monthly payment is better to put towards a mortgage for your own place, then you are in the right place. There is no problem with renting – after all there are no responsibilities, no long term worries about losing your home and you can move when you want to. But if you are choosing to buy, here are some reasons that buying a new property is great. Attractive price On the face of it, logic says a second-hand apartment is cheaper. In reality, in many cases, the situation is different: competition between contractors can lead…
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What is a CIS Mortgage and Why Would You Need One?
What is CIS Mortgage? The truth is, there is no actual product that is called CIS mortgages’ but there is what is called the Construction Industry Scheme. The CIS permits a lone trader to have his income examined and verified by a mortgage lender. Over a period of time, this process was called the CIS mortgage. Anyone who had registered for the Construction Industry Scheme is given the opportunity to get a mortgage. Although, applying for CIS mortgages can be quite challenging to those who are self-employed. The income they typically present may not be consistent with the profit they actually get from their business. This can be problematic when…
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Quick Tips For New Homebuyers
When looking to make your first step up on the property ladder there are a lot of things to consider. Moving house is a stressful business and it is one of the biggest investments you will make during your lifetime. As a new homebuyer you’ll likely be daunted by the process and the sheer scale of the purchase – and we don’t blame you. But we are here today to help you think a few things through and make the process go smoothly. These are a few tips to help you as a first-time buyer and make your experience less stressful. Consider buying vs renting It is no secret that…
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Why You Need To Sort Your EPC Before Selling Your London Home
When it comes to selling your home in London, there are a lot of things to consider. Are you marketing your property to a potential investor? Or are you looking to sell to someone who will make it their home? No matter who you’re looking to sell to, you will legally need to have an EPC in place before marketing the property. An EPC Explained EPC stands for an energy performance certificate. Its main purpose is to measure the energy efficiency of a property on a scale from A-G. They must always be available to potential buyers and potential tenants. The higher your rating, with A being the highest, the…
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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Buying a Home
Buying a house is one of the most exciting things you will ever do, it’s also one of the most expensive, so it pays to have your facts straight and know as much about the process in terms of the personal and practical as possible. With that in mind, here are a few things that nobody ever seems to tell you about buying a home: If you use an online real estate agent you’ll have to conduct your own viewings There’s been a real boom in online real estate agents like Purplebricks that promise to save you money if you use them instead of traditional estate agents. However, what is…
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How to Save Money on Home Removals?
When you’re moving your home, it’s an opportunity for a new start and that is something exciting worthy of anticipation for you and your family. But the realization dawns upon you that ALL the household items are to be moved from one place to another in, the home removal process and can cost a lot of money, so many people think twice while considering home removal because they feel they cannot absorb the expense. Today we will give you some tips on how to save money on home removals. If you need quality house removal services you can hire us at Man and van UK. How to save money during the home removal…
