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London gardens can add more than £205,000 in value as Chelsea tops table for prime buyers seeking outdoor space

Ahead of this year's Chelsea Flower Show, research by Enness Global has revealed that a garden can add more than £205,000 to the value of a London home, whilst Chelsea fittingly boasts the highest degree of garden availability for high-net-worth homebuyers in the current market. Enness Global has also revealed the top five trends currently shaping luxury outdoor spaces across prime London this spring...

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Face to face viewings are a thing of the past

By Simon Dempsey - Marketing Director at U-See Technologies, the virtual tour curator

Landlines, steam trains, the telegram, VHS… eventually most things succumb to progress and die out as both technology and consumer attitudes change.

The pandemic has not changed anything but has accelerated everything, especially where digitisation and technology are concerned.

We’...

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Leaseholds on the rise with 8% growth in five years

The latest research from Warwick Estates shows that leasehold homes are playing an increasingly significant role in the UK housing market after enjoying significant growth in the past couple of years.

There is an increasingly common narrative around the housing market that leaseholds should be a thing of the past. This argument often starts by saying leaseholds don’t give owners...

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The areas to have seen the most consistent house price growth in the last decade

Forget the stamp duty holiday house price boom - these are the areas to have seen the most consistent growth in the last decade

The UK property market is booming, with house prices up by a whopping 10% in the last year alone . But with the stamp duty holiday turbocharging buyer demand across the nation, it’s impossible to tell which areas are actually going from strength to strength and which...

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Cleaning Up: The UK’s Top Cleanfluencers Making Big Money On Social Media

Cleaning Up: The UK’s Top Cleanfluencers Making Big Money On Social Media
  • Cleaning influencers are making a fortune on social media channels, with follower counts ranging from the tens of thousands to the millions
  • The UK’s top “cleanfluencer” Mrs Hinch posts videos of herself cleaning as well as offering organisation advice to her 4,100,000 followers
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Learn your little-known meter numbers to avoid accidental ‘killer’ bills

Energy experts are urging homeowners to ‘Know your Number’ when it comes to gas and electric meters to guard against potential bill mix-ups.

Residents across the UK can sometimes accidentally fall foul of receiving sky-high utility invoices, says money.co.uk - when they know they have definitely not consumed that much energy.

The discrepancy occurs when a utility company...

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SHOW HOME INSPIRATION AS THE GARDEN VILLAGE GROWS

TWO new show homes herald the launch of a new phase of Parc Ceirw Garden Village in Morriston as the new community takes shape near Swansea.

The garden village is being developed by the Edenstone Group – featuring designs from Edenstone Homes and Bluebell Homes.

Properties from Bluebell Homes have been selling off-plan since February 2020. The opening of the four-bedroomed Farnham...

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The projects that add the most value to your home when selling - and the ones that don’t

The projects that add the most value to your home when selling - and the ones that don’t

Research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has revealed which household renovations will add the most value to your home once you’ve accounted for the cost of the job itself.

The housing market looks set to keep sizzling this summer, as the latest Nationwide house...

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Forget the detached house price boom, this is the property type to have performed best in the last decade

The latest research by Birmingham estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester , reveals that terraced houses are the best property investment in the UK after experiencing stronger price growth than any other type of home over the past decade.

The UK housing market has boomed. Surging demand has been met by dwindling supply to push house prices to record highs. During this boom,...

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Flats are yet to fall out of favour with homebuyers accounting for 15% of all pandemic property transactions

The latest research from Warwick Estates has found that flats have far from fallen out of favour with homebuyers in England and Wales during the pandemic, accounting for 15% of all homes sold.

Months on end of lockdown restrictions have led to the romanticized notion that the nation’s homebuyers are ditching city living and apartment properties for larger homes in the country....

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Mortgage deals back to pre-pandemic levels: Expert tips on how first time buyers can find the right one

Taking that first step onto the property ladder is much easier if you know exactly what help is available to you and where to find the best mortgage deals.

Following the news that the number of mortgage products on the market are back to pre-pandemic levels after the co, Nisha Vaidya, a mortgage expert at money.co.uk , has compiled a quick and simple guide on everything you might need to know...

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