Homes across Britain are sliding into the sea as the cliffs beneath them rapidly erode away - amid fears recent storms are speeding up perilous coastal erosion. Families in Norfolk, East Sussex, Essex and East Yorkshire are terrified that their houses could plunge hundreds of feet into the water at any moment as the … [Read more...]
When to sell your forever home
It's the home where you watched your children grow up, celebrated those milestone birthdays – and the one you fine-tuned over two or three decades into the best property you've ever owned. Filled with family heirlooms and fond memories, your forever home can be hard to surrender. Yet leave it too late and you'll … [Read more...]
Where ‘young’ downsizers go to live the dream (and release the most cash)
Many are making the lifestyle leap before they retire, for social and financial benefits. The property market has long been a fundamental way for British families to build wealth, and the past decade has been no exception. In 2013 the average detached property cost £268,000, according to the Office for National … [Read more...]
Pet hates for home buyers
With property sales down by 10 per cent since pre-Covid levels, now is a tricky time to sell your home. But what are the features and centrepieces that can turn buyers off? Some of these fancy home additions listed by property experts, below, may surprise you — but they're likely to end up hampering a sale. If you … [Read more...]
‘Stressful 16-month home renovation gave me psoriasis – but it was worth it’
When looking at home extensions it's important to keep in mind the many pros and cons When Talia Barry walked into her new family home her reaction was emphatic. “I actually cried the day we moved in, thinking I’d made a terrible mistake,” she said. “My daughter cried too, and I kept saying: “It will be really … [Read more...]
The downsizer’s dilemma: how the property market is trapping would-be movers
...Or downsizers are battling each other for homes. In Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Carol Peett, founder of West Wales Property Finders http://www.westwalespropertyfinders.co.uk, is receiving several inquiries a week from buyers in their sixties and seventies wishing to sell large houses with big gardens to move to … [Read more...]
A source of joy, and painful expense: how to renovate a listed home
Renovating a house from top to bottom is not for the faint-hearted, but if the property is listed, this comes with many added layers of red tape and expense. Just ask Claire Collins, who has spent two years restoring an elegant Georgian house in Lansdown, Bath. “When I bought the house, it was so beautiful but … [Read more...]
In praise of the suburban semi – they’re hot property, whatever the snobs say
In 1939 George Orwell took aim at burgeoning British suburbia and its population of lower middle class lackeys in his novel Coming Up for Air, memorably describing the new homes being built on the fringes of cities as ‘semi-detached torture chambers where the poor little five-to-ten pound a-weekers quake and … [Read more...]
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