Recent Articles in Problems and Complaints Checklists

What to do you if you can’t pay your mortgage
Jun 22, 2017

Life is full of surprises and can be going perfectly smoothly one day, before the rug is pulled from under your feet the next. Redundancy, illness and relationship breakdowns are all bad enough on their own, but when they result in you potentially losing your home, too, they can be devastating. What can you do if the happens to you?

Manifesto property pledges - General Election 2017
Jun 5, 2017

I have summarised as best as I can the main promises coming out of the manifestos, having looked at the manifestos, here’s my thoughts on who is doing what...

Water damage costs home UK homeowners more than 700m per year
May 25, 2017

Research from Direct Line Home Insurance has shown that in the last five years more than four million people in the UK have suffered damage to their homes due to escaped water from a neighbour's property – 1.5 million have even had this issue more than once!

Election promises on housing – who says and does what in property?
May 2, 2017

For some reason, I didn’t realise the political parties had published their manifestos but I was prompted to take a closer look by a comment from Labour about housing.

Brexit headlines – and why you should ignore them
Mar 30, 2017

I am rarely reluctant to write about property but, as the big issue this week is Brexit, I feel obliged to say something, even though, in my view, hardly anything has changed since I last wrote about it in September.