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...
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...
Three Storage Ideas to Prepare Your Home for Sale
For many homeowners, preparing to put the house on the market involves a lot of hard thinking about how to present their home in the best way. Decluttering is a major factor, and can do as much to create a desirable environment as redecorating. Proving you don’t need to spend a fortune on remodelling, here are four storage ideas that could revolutionise your space: Get an Early Start on Packing You don’t have to get rid of prized...
What’s the magic that sells your home?
What makes a home more desirable to buyers? What is that magic ingredient, that special something that helps convert a window-shopper into a genuine buyer ready to make an offer on your house? Actually, it’s a combination of things, practical things that home buyers are looking for … and if you have ‘them’, or even some of ‘them’, it shouldn’t take long for your home to be snapped up. In this article, we’re going to take a look at a...
Five decisions you need to make before buying a home
Buying a property? Whether it’s your first home, you’re up- or down-sizing, or just buying a property to let it out, there’s a lot to think about. Here are five decisions that you will need to make before you buy a home – provided property expert and freelance writer Mike James. These five decisions were decided upon with George Ide solicitors, as part of a project of advice-based articles for homebuyers. Where is the most...
How Much Do You Know About The Property You’re Moving To?
You have found the perfect property, the viewing has gone brilliantly, and now you are all set to go ahead with the next steps and prepare moving into your dream home. But how much do you really know about the property? It is not uncommon for buyers to move into a home without knowing some details about it, information which may have caused them to rethink the property had they known beforehand. Most people are able to avoid the...
