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6 Essential questions every first-time buyer needs to ask
Buying your first home is a huge step for anyone. No doubt you’ll have been planning and saving up for it for years and now you’re finally ready to take the plunge into homeownership. Well, you couldn’t have chosen a more unusual year in which to make your move! But while 2020 is a year…
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3 Tips For Starting Your Own Estate Agency
Running your own estate agency is a significant challenge that requires professional knowledge, life experience and sheer determination. But for those who are successful, it can be hugely rewarding. Yet with so much information out there, it’s hard to pick out the amateurs from the experts when deciding what’s right for you. Whether you’re relatively…
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House Flipping vs Buy and Hold Investing: What You Need To Know
For investors looking to get started in real estate, the question inevitably arises:”Is house flipping or buy and hold investing more profitable?”. The answer is that both of these strategies have their own merits and measure of profitability, and the one the investor chooses will depend on their goals and level of involvement. It’s important…
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Calculate Net Proceeds from Home Sales: Why is it Fundamental?
Numerous individuals struggle transitioning from being homeowners to home sellers. This will genuinely expect you to move from pondering the great recollections of making the most of your home to genuinely contemplating the bottom line number or the check you could get when it’s an ideal opportunity to sell. Is it precise to say that…
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Getting a Mortgage When Self Employed in the Covid Era
Getting a mortgage when self-employed has always proved to be a challenge, with lenders requiring extra checks and criteria on prospective borrowers. During the Covid era, lenders seem to have grown even more stringent on their requirements for the self-employed. This has meant more reports of disapproval of applications when in reality the products are…
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What to Do with an Unoccupied Home
If you inherit a property when a family member dies it could help you get onto the property ladder if you aren’t a homeowner already. But what if you already own a house – what exactly do you do with a home that you have no intention of moving into at the moment? Let’s take…
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What factors to consider when getting a property valuation
Getting your property valued is a requirement in several situations. The most common is when selling your home. Buyers also often need to get a valuation to satisfy the bank as to the mortgage value. There are a number of factors that affect the value of your home. Some you have control over and some…
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How to Make Money from House Foreclosures
Making money from house foreclosures is certainly not for beginners. However, if you want to dive into this market, you can start learning the ins and outs quickly. In this article, we’ll talk about how you can make money from house foreclosures. You’ll learn the foreclosure process and the important considerations involved. What are House…
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Buy-To-Let Investments in Liverpool – The Best UK Hotspot
Buy-to-let properties have made an unbelievable boom in the real estate investment market by becoming highly profitable long-term investment opportunities. These estates are purchased by investors to be rented out to tenants, thus generating monthly rental income. Becoming a landlord enables you to earn income through both rental yield and capital growth, hence providing a…
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Are we heading for a Mini Boom and Long Bust Property Market?
The property market can certainly defend itself against most situations from market crashes to international pandemics. Whatever hit it may take it can usually recover in next to no time and usually go against the trend by surging in value. Currently covid-19 continues its presence globally effecting much in our normal way of lives as…
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5 Ways to Sell Your Home that Real Estate Agents Keep a Secret
Selling a house seems like a colossal task that only a real estate agent is fit to do. However, if you learn the secrets of the trade, you can become a home selling master yourself. Having a real estate agent isn’t a necessity to sell your home at a price that you’re satisfied with. It’ll…
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5 Renovations that Will Sell a Home Faster
Selling a house is about more than finding the right buyer. Making the property more appealing can help you expand your pool of buyers and end up with a higher-quality offer. According to this team of Homebuyers, here are the five best renovations to get your property off the market faster. 1) Energy Remodel Energy…
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First home discounts of 40% or 50%?
Many of us reading this article will remember their first ‘home’. Be it that rental or purchase, it was a big step to take and a chance to come home whenever you wanted, get up when you want and have parties without permission! For the majority though it would have also been the first big…
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Is there a future to high street shops / estate agency?
Firstly I really despise negative press and the scare mongering so I wish to make it clear that my preference, and there is no reason why not, is that we go back to more or less as we were before covid-19 disrupted our lives. High streets are great in that not only are they a…
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Further lock-downs to effect Estate Agency Industry?
There is certainly a growing fear that the country could see further lock-down effecting regions throughout. Recently Leicester had a delay in it’s release from lock-down and now fears of Northern parts of England seeing restrictions in place. So, what about the property market? The main lock-down we all suffered between April and June 2020…
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