Is a Garage Conversion a Good Home Investment?
If you’re looking to add value to your home, whether through its practicality or market price, there’s a lot of roads you could go down. These could include reconfiguring the layout to work better for your family, installing a new kitchen, or modernising your existing space and extending your home to give it more square feet. In this blog post, construction specialists Refresh Interiors share their insight to explain why garage...
A Tenant’s Guide To Finding The Perfect Rental Property
Keeping An Open Mind As A Tenant From budgeting to viewing properties, this guide will give you an idea of what to focus on in the quest for your new rental home. Zoopla reports that the average tenant in the UK spends around a third of their monthly income on rent, whilst rental costs have increased 2% in the past year. As such a significant portion of wages is going towards renting, it’s important that tenants are happy with the...
Why it’s Good To Invest in Quality Furniture
A person’s home is so important – it’s the place you return to after a long hard day at work, where you celebrate, enjoy family time, relax and sleep. A home should be your own sanctuary – a place that truly reflects who you are and somewhere you look forward to spending your time. In a world of throw away fashion, fads, trends and crazes – mass produced, cheap furniture items have become widely used to furnish homes at a fraction of...
Signs That Intruders Will Look For When Trying to Gain Access
In 2018 alone, there were over 500,000 residential burglaries recorded in England and Wales, this equates to around 2 in every 100 households being affected. Retail premises also saw an increase in burglaries, which was accompanied with increased costs of around 6% linked directly to lost stock and increased insurance premiums. Therefore, securing our property from a potential break-in is something which we all spend a considerable...
Why Experience is Vital in Property Surveying
Protect yourself and your investment by hiring an experienced surveyor An experienced property surveyor should be able to identify any structural problems, potentially saving you from nasty surprises and long-term costs. Buying a house can be a stressful experience – from finding the right property, to securing a mortgage and hiring a solicitor. With so much to think about, it can be tempting to skip the property survey and just...
