Latest Property Advice

• Gardens are key to maximising values
  

  Published 18th Jun 2008

  Homeowners looking for ways to increase the value of their home should make improvements to their gardens

• Purbeck District Council levies £1,000 charge for home extensions
  

  Published 17th Jun 2008

  Families are being charged a £1,000 “bedroom tax” to extend their homes under a new interpretation of town hall planning rules

• UK housing market downturn encourages foreign property investment
  

  Published 14th Jun 2008

  Foreign property investment is becoming increasingly popular as the cost of living in the UK soars, according to an industry specialist

• We do like to live beside the seaside
  

  Published 14th Jun 2008

  AS we enter the summer months, the long awaited arrival of some warmer weather brings with it a prime period for a great British tradition – the weekend getaway

• Investors eye 'Atlantic Canada'
  

  Published 13th Jun 2008

  Property prices in ‘Atlantic Canada’ hotspots are on the rise as investor interest increases..

• ‘Glorious’ Isle has ‘the Wight stuff’
  

  Published 13th Jun 2008

  It is said that for half the year The Isle of Wight is the smallest county in England, its size relative to land-locked Rutland being determined by the tides

• Home-movers fear ‘bad-luck Friday
  

  Published 13th Jun 2008

  While Friday is usually the busiest day for moving home, today is predicted to be eerily quiet as home movers put off moving to avoid the bad luck associated with Friday 13th