September….The Festival has packed up and left town. The kids are back at school. Property buyers are on the hunt for a new home. If you’re planning on putting your property on the market this month or want to refresh it ready for the autumn influx of buyers, we are here to share some simple…
Winter is traditionally regarded as not being the best time to put a property on the market, with many people choosing to wait until the spring arrives the following year. Conventional wisdom has it that if you put your property on the market in late autumn or winter, there might be little or no interest…
Thinking of selling your property but don’t know where to start? Well, the first step is to get an estate agent’s valuation of your property. This will tell you what your property is worth in the current market. Selling your property is one of the biggest decisions you will make, so it’s important to get…
I’m personally coming up for remortgage time at the beginning of December so I have a more than fleeting interest in mortgages at the moment. Getting the best mortgage rate is an important step to not wasting money every month on owning a home. However, if you’re lucky, you might be able to save a…

In Scotland, ‘under offer’ (or ‘sold subject to conclusion of missives’) means the seller has accepted an offer, but the legally binding contract, missives, hasn’t been concluded yet. Because nothing is legally binding at that stage, a second buyer can still try to submit an offer, and neither gazumping nor gazundering is illegal. Whether the…
Moving home can be a stressful time. However, if you’re organised and know that you are on top of things, it needn’t be so stressful! This article contains a checklist of things that you can do to prepare for your move along with some suggestions about when you will want to get started with doing…
We’ve all heard about the survey that says moving house comes in the top 10 list of the most stressful things you can do. Apparently it’s third in the list, after death of a family member and divorce. But why is the process of putting a property on the market and then moving out of…
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