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Here are some top tips on clearing out clutter to enable a faster sale: 1. Clear Out Clutter Every home has clutter. To increase the value of your home do your best to remove yours. Remove anything you don’t need. Pre-pack and place the packed items in storage. This will...

Over three-quarters of private landlords who currently accept LHA sector tenants are set to be forced out of the market, unable to afford to continue letting to those on lower rates of Local Housing Allowance. A new survey of 528 landlords in October by the National Landlords...

Barclays Woolwich launch 75pc btl mortgages, which includes a 5-year fixed rate deal at 4.99%, a 2-year fixed rate at 4.39% and a lifetime tracker at 3.49% above Bank Base Rate. The deals come with a ?1,999 application fee. The minimum loan available is ?50,000 and the maximum is...

Here are 5 tips to really spruce home before sale just by painting it. 1. Paint It In Neutral Colours People will shy away from a home with brightly coloured walls. They may not like your colour choices and it may not suite their furniture. Buyers do not want to have to paint the...

The front of the house is where the first impression starts. If you want to sell your home, make the front look perfect. A good first appearance can add as much as 5-10% to the value of a home. Here are 7 Easy Steps to improving your home’s Curb Appeal: 1. Tidy Up This is...

Over half of the 1.8m borrowers now on SVRs have more than 10% equity and could potentially remortgage if they wished to. This seems likely to support remortgage demand as borrowers become more twitchy about future interest rates said Caroline Purdey, market and data analyst at...

There was a massive surge in UK inflation rate last month. Official figures show that the Consumer Prices Index measure for September hit 5.2%, a significant increase from the 4.5% recorded in August and higher than had been predicted. The 5.2% figure is the highest since...

The Financial Services Authority is to issue a warning on lease option agreements, financially risky agreements whereby distressed sellers hand over the running of their property to an investor for a set period of time. A report by 5 Live Investigates on Sunday night exposed a...