Are you looking to buy a new property? Don't make any offers until you have the answers to these crucial questions.

Our homes are our castles, and we like nothing more than styling and personalising them to our own tastes. DIY is a huge business in the UK, and almost all of us have an ongoing project, improving or changing some aspect of our home, changing wallpaper, paint colours, or maybe even tiles and flooring. But how much could this DIY obsession affect the value of our home?

If 99% of property searchers start their search for their dream home online, should you be impressed by the brochure that an agent tells you they will create?

Man's best friend is great, but it is not always the best when you are trying to sell your home. Here are some helpful tips to consider.

This recent article from The Guardian states pink, blue and yellow bathroom suites are pushing the all-white sets out of fashion.

Is the person you met at your home for the valuation the person you will deal with throughout the process?

Find out if the current economic climate makes it the right time for home buyers to purchase property in the area

Are you tired of waiting for months on end to complete a property transaction? In this article, we explain why it takes so long and offer practical advice to speed up the process.

When marketing a property for sale, the key is ensuring it reaches a broader audience to find the perfect buyer. The ideal solution is for the exposure of your property marketing to be comprehensive and wide enough to ensure that the maximum number of potential buyers can be found, resulting in a higher level of demand and, therefore, a higher value. This will lead to more viewings, offers, and higher sale prices - what every seller seeks.

Most of us do not think about our credit scores too often. We happily meander through life without giving it a second thought until we make a large purchase. Something that means we need to apply for finance of some kind, and it slowly dawns on us that we really should know our credit score. Whether it's for a credit card, car finance, or a mortgage, it all rests on that little credit score that you have, until this point, completely ignored.

Once you have a kitchen, dining room, living room, bedrooms and bathrooms, what else do large properties use their rooms for?? There comes a point when you run out of names for them all! Luxury properties will often have 'extra' rooms, over and above those that you would expect, and often it is these additional rooms that make us feel that a property is that little bit 'extra', setting it apart from the norm.