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Tips to Ensure Cold Doesn't Affect Your Home

Tips to Ensure Cold Doesn't Affect Your Home

Meteorological winter may be over, but the cold is here to stay – for a l…

How to Banish Condensation - Top Tips from Expert

How to Banish Condensation - Top Tips from Expert

Damp, condensation and mould can be a nightmare for homeowners when the rai…

Sectioning Out A Large Garden

Sectioning Out A Large Garden

Some of us have small gardens, some of us have a moderate amount of area ou…

Improving Your Home Using Only Second Hand Items In 'Second Hand September'

Improving Your Home Using Only Second Hand Items In 'Second Hand September'

With Oxfam’s Second Hand September taking over, you might have started th…

Revealed: Which Parts Of The Home We Never Clean

Revealed: Which Parts Of The Home We Never Clean

Cleaning is essential for maintaining a safe and hygienic living environmen…

Top Energy-saving Home Improvements

Top Energy-saving Home Improvements

Replacing the roof, upgrading to a modern boiler, installing cavity wall in…

Brits Caught Unaware as Temperatures Plummet

Brits Caught Unaware as Temperatures Plummet

Almost half (47 per cent) of people in the UK have been caught unaware by t…

The Rise of the ‘Jack of All Trades’, and Master of None

The Rise of the ‘Jack of All Trades’, and Master of None

Skilled tradesmen are increasingly having to step in to repair botched jobs…

4 Hazards A Seemingly Perfect Home Could Be Hiding

4 Hazards A Seemingly Perfect Home Could Be Hiding

There’s no feeling of excitement quite like looking around a property and…

Estate Agent Secrets: What They Really Look for in Your Home

Estate Agent Secrets: What They Really Look for in Your Home

Have you ever wondered what the estate agent is thinking as they slowly, bu…

Design Tips To Help Your Home Through The Seasons

Design Tips To Help Your Home Through The Seasons

As the country emerges from the heatwave, many householders are coming to t…

Five Ways to Keep Your Home Running Smoothly this Winter

Five Ways to Keep Your Home Running Smoothly this Winter

We are still well in the throes of winter, and the weather isn’t getting …

3 Steps Toward Off-Grid Living

3 Steps Toward Off-Grid Living

Off grid living is gradually gaining popularity as people grow more aware o…

Damp: Identifying And Dealing With This Deadly Hazard

Damp: Identifying And Dealing With This Deadly Hazard

If there’s one thing you need to avoid getting in your home like the plag…

Don't Have a Home Disaster this Winter

Don't Have a Home Disaster this Winter

As the days start to get shorter and you start to feel a chill in the air, …

Staging Your Home For Sale: Tips & Tricks To Try

Staging Your Home For Sale: Tips & Tricks To Try

If you are looking to sell your home anytime soon, then you’ll know what …

When Homes Go Bad - Fixing The Biggest Problems In Your House

When Homes Go Bad - Fixing The Biggest Problems In Your House

Buying a home is enormously stressful. It takes months of worry, waiting fo…

The Hidden Costs Of Your New Home

The Hidden Costs Of Your New Home

It’s an exciting time when you make the leap to buy or build a new house.…

How To Traverse The Unexpectedly Bumpy Road To Home Ownership

How To Traverse The Unexpectedly Bumpy Road To Home Ownership

Prices are always rising, and wages aren’t keeping up. One look at the ne…

Ways To Make Moving Into Your New Home A Lot Smoother

Ways To Make Moving Into Your New Home A Lot Smoother

Before you move into your home, there are several key considerations you ne…

Could A Loft Conversion Be The Solution To Your Small Home?

Could A Loft Conversion Be The Solution To Your Small Home?

Has your home begun to feel a little cramped? Has your family started to ou…

Have You Made These Classic Moving Mistakes?

Have You Made These Classic Moving Mistakes?

Moving home is never easy. In fact, there's a pretty good reason why it's o…

Fuelling Rural Living

Fuelling Rural Living

Living in the countryside has a number of pros, such as a sense of communit…

House To Home: Settling In To a New Place After Moving

House To Home: Settling In To a New Place After Moving

Moving house is a new chapter, the perfect opportunity to start fresh. Ther…

Three Ways To Create Peace Of Mind At Home

Three Ways To Create Peace Of Mind At Home

Life is stressful enough without having to worry about things that may neve…

Top Property Turn-offs Revealed

Top Property Turn-offs Revealed

New research highlights the 10 things that put buyers off the most when vie…

The Smart Home Of Today

The Smart Home Of Today

Imagine waking up to the blinds opening at the sound of your alarm, reveali…

Top 50 Reasons Not to Move into an Old Property

Top 50 Reasons Not to Move into an Old Property

Mice or rats running around, bats in the attic and squeaky floorboards are …

What’s Being Done In The Battle Against Burglaries?

What’s Being Done In The Battle Against Burglaries?

Unfortunately, we live in a day and age where protecting your home against …

Don't Let Stains Put A Strain On Festive Celebrations

Don't Let Stains Put A Strain On Festive Celebrations

Tis the season to be jolly…but the party season has the potential to leav…

Key Things To Consider When Renovating A Bathroom

Key Things To Consider When Renovating A Bathroom

I am often called in to fix bathroom make-overs that have gone wrong, so i…

Location, location, location!

Location, location, location!

While property values are perennially subject to fluctuation, location, loc…

'Rise in first-time buyers fueling neighbourhood disputes,' survey says

'Rise in first-time buyers fueling neighbourhood disputes,' survey says

One month after the housing market saw its highest number of first time buy…

Key rooms to help attract buyers

Key rooms to help attract buyers

Whether you’re looking to sell or just fancy a revamp, it is important to…

Britain's leading plumber offers advice on saving water

Britain's leading plumber offers advice on saving water

Britain’s best known plumber and Secret Millionaire, Charlie Mullins, has…

Money-saving advice: Home decor tips

Money-saving advice: Home decor tips

You may be saving up to decorate your home, but have you ever considered th…

The ticking time-bomb of the single person household

The ticking time-bomb of the single person household

The home-owning landscape has certainly changed over the last 40 years from…

A new generation of silver landlords?

A new generation of silver landlords?

The pensions overhaul announced by the Chancellor in the last Budget could …

Do rectories represent the perfect country idyll?

Do rectories represent the perfect country idyll?

Traditionally at the heart of a village, a rectory or vicarage conjures up …

The rise of the ‘granlord’

The rise of the ‘granlord’

The number of over-65s renting out rooms to supplement their pensions is in…

To move or make the most of where you live?

To move or make the most of where you live?

While house prices are now on a slow upward trajectory as the economy stead…

Disclosure responsibilities of those selling property

Disclosure responsibilities of those selling property

By Martin Williamson, Head of Residential Property, Latimer Hinks Solicitor…

'Concealed families' on the rise, according to ons

'Concealed families' on the rise, according to ons

The number of young couples starting lives together lodging with their pare…

Four-Square behind a rural housing agenda

Four-Square behind a rural housing agenda

Whatever your take on the idea of building on more swathes of our green and…

Why renting could really break the bank

Why renting could really break the bank

While many people are struggling to get on the vital first rung of the hous…

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