There are many different kinds of house building employed throughout the world – I’ve been watching many of the property upgrade programmes imported from the States and it’s fascinating to see how the buyers there are adamant they must have this or that feature.  Things that over here in the UK would probably never have […]

There is a satisfactory feeling of contentment when you move into a brand new house – after many years of seriously awful rented flats.   Then having to buy the cheapest mortgagable property we could get our hands on, it was such a relief when eventually we had moved up the mortgate ladder a little, […]

My neighbour’s both sides are now having kitchens and fresh new living spaces added on to their homes.  I must be said that these are already nice sizeable family  homes – built in the very early years of this century, and probably the last of the era of 5 bed family excutive plots.  After that […]

As we all know, over here in little ole Blighty, it is not possible to build anything new in the way of property without going through all the due procesesses of planning and building regulations.    We have these in place to stop the indescriminate building of any old shape and size of building and to […]

The building work on a nearby bungalow is taking a massive amount of time.   The most revent work started some fiveyears ago when the 1920s arts and crafts style was first sold after being in one family since construction.  The new owners pledged to rip out everything and start all over again, apparently.  This did […]

Keeping a property going, in reasonable if not quite ship shape condition, is one of life’s challenges for the older person.    For couples this is especially challenging as generally the husband took it upon himself to make sure he looked after the basics of the property.  Checking the plumbing of loos and basins for possible […]

Many families now find they need much more space than they used to.   In Victorian times families often had eight or more children and they would have to be accommodated in whatever the family had, no chance to expand or build on.  We are so much luckier now of course.  More families than ever are […]

In most cases the maintenance of a family property is nothing more than keeping an eye on the guttering, windows and doors and generally making sure nothing gets too worn out to repair.  If the brickwork on an older terrace starte to show damp patches, it may well be a problem around the pointing and […]

There can’t be a house in the land that won’t be improved by a property team pottering about keeping up to date with necessary repairs and managing the regular maintenance tasks.  When this happens, there isn’t the shock of finding the guttering has detached itself from the back of the house after a particularly rough […]

There is a most definite swing towards buying homes again now.  For a couple of years it seemed that young folk only wanted to rent.  That buying comittment seemed just that little bit too far and of course, at the beginning, there are a lot of set up costs.  When you buy, there are solicitors […]