With the Coalition Government’s long-awaited and much-feared spending review now just a month away, news has leaked out of the 180 quangos that are to be abolished in order to save money. For property owners, sellers and homebuyers, there are some striking inclusions in this list. The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit is to [...]

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We all know that these days, there is a lot of properties for sale being heavily marketed online. Several of these properties are marketed on property sites by real estate agents, but there are many websites that allow people who would like to sell their property be advertised on it without having a middle-man. Moreover, [...]

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Selling a house fast in the current market is no easy task. Rightmove, Uk’s largest property portal revealed that there was a 0.6% drop in the asking prices for properties for the period of four months, which ended July 10 of this year. This it says is as a result of a massive increase in [...]

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Delhi’s disastrous mess in hosting the Commonwealth Games will come as a sobering alert to Glasgow, which will host the next Games in 2014. The Scottish city has spent the past couple of years boasting how the Games will bring investment, tourism, new facilities and regeneration to the East End of Glasgow, an area blighted [...]

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Whispers reach www.theadvisory.co.uk of the coalition government’s plan to abolish ‘right to buy’ – where council tenants can purchase their properties, normally at a big discount to the market cost.  If that happens it would be an ironic post-script to the Thatcher years. Extending home ownership was a quintessential 1980s Tory policy, turning lower-middle Britons [...]

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As the market grows more cutthroat by the day, some estate agents are cutting their fees to attract sellers. Some, such as Hatched or Halfapercent.com are purely online and offer either low percentages or fixed fees (as low as £300) to sell your property. But even traditional High Street agencies are slashing their fees for [...]

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