Recent Articles in Building and Renovating Property Checklists

Plumbers shine the spotlight on dripping taps during Water Saving Week
Apr 29, 2019

WaterSafe is helping to pull the plug on water wastage by encouraging homeowners to potentially save thousands of litres of water a year by fixing leaky taps. Read WaterSafe's top five tips to help save water in the house.

Property update from Philip Hammond's Spring Statement 2019
Mar 14, 2019

The Spring Statement from Philip Hammond wasn't the most exiting event of the day, but at least it was a rare bit of 'respite' away from the disaster that is now Brexit - or maybe not! Much of the statement repeats pledges and consultations on more changes to property taxation from previous budgets, but there is some news on where investment is going into areas such as Nottingham, Derby, Portsmouth, Southampton and the likes of Stoke on Trent. 

Kate's comprehensive property price update for February 2019 - data from the UK house price index
Mar 7, 2019

Nearly all the indices are now heading to a ‘zero’ increase year on year, bar UK HPI which measures the market some months behind the rest. These figures would normally relate to ‘talk’ in the media of a house price crash, but as most of the reports point out, the market is surprisingly resilient considering the level of uncertainty, not just from Brexit but this month from a poor economic performance.

Soft or hard landing for the Property Market in 2019?
Mar 7, 2019

While Theresa May seems to be battling for a soft or hard Brexit, the property market this year could go one of three ways...

In some areas over 40% of people think they can afford to buy their first home on their own
Feb 4, 2019

New research released by the Nottingham Building Society (The Nottingham) has revealed that first-time buyers in the East Midlands and Scotland are the most likely to buy alone when purchasing their first property.