The ease and speed with which you can sell your home varies for numerous reasons. Among these are the economy, local area and current level of demand. As many deciding factors for those selling their homes are simply out of our control, those limited components that we do have control over, such as the appearance…
A while back, you may remember, I wrote about how difficult it was for first-time buyers to arrange a mortgage in this economic climate without resorting to The Bank of Mum and Dad. Coincidentally, around then I found myself reading a report from the Home Builders Federation entitled "Broken Ladder - a Report into the…
Boasting approximately seventy thousand properties (typically three-bedroom terraces built by the Basildon Development Corporation in the fifties and sixties), Basildon is a New town that seems to have expanded well over the years. And as for the Corporation? It was, perhaps, one of the very first original social landlords.
Home sweet home: you bought it for nesting, not investing - but still you've lavished your hard earned money on it and it's quite nice to watch the value increase... but not quite so nice to see that value decreasing as the property market drops during an adjustment. In fact, it's quite easy to feel…