Are you thinking about selling your home this year? The Spring time is a great time to start planning and preparing your home for sale. Here are some tips to help you get the best possible outcome when selling your home.

A deposit dispute is a situation where a landlord wishes to deduct money from a tenants deposit and the tenant disagrees with this. Dealing with deposit disputes can be stressful. It can take up a lot of time and doesn’t always end in the way you would expect. Here we look at the process and how to deal with the dispute.

If you are already a landlord, you will know about the endless rules and regulations you have to abide by. If you are not yet a landlord but are thinking about becoming one, this article will help keep you on the right side of the law!

With an ever-growing demand for rental properties and with the demand outstripping supply, it’s a good time to be a Landlord. Here are our tips and advice when looking to purchase an investment property.

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.

When marketing a property for rent, the biggest concerns for most landlords are usually the amount of rent they can earn from the property and the speed they can get a tenant moved in. If the property appeals to the target tenant, it will likely rent quickly and for a good price. If the property is not attracting the attention in the market you'd hoped, perhaps there's something that you could change to entice a tenant?

Whether you’re looking to gain monthly profit from a tenant or grow your money in a capital investment, property is a fantastic way to make additional income. There are however things to consider before buying, see our top tips before you make the jump…

If you ask a seller whether they want their property sold quickly, the answer will usually be yes. However, what if you haven’t sold in the time you were expecting? When is it time to take your property off the market for a break? How long is too long?

By law the current version of the Governments How to rent guide needs to be provided to the tenant when a new assured shorthold tenancy starts. There is no requirement to provide the document again if the assured shorthold tenancy is renewed UNLESS the document has been updated.

For many buyers they make one of the biggest decisions of their lives based upon one, 15-minute viewing. Its therefore important to get the most out of the appointment. So, what can you do to make the most out of those 15 minutes?