This community is aimed at giving home design inspiration and advice. This is a place where you can showcase your home designs and share design tips. In the forums you can get DIY hints and tips and discuss any issues relating to buying and selling property. You can create a profile to show off your home to give the community design inspiration. There are many articles about the UK property market and finance issues related to buying and selling property.

Planning Permission for your house

Obtaining planning permission to improve your home can be a difficult task and a complicated one. The core reason why planning permission exists, is to protect the stability of the building and the safety of people, as well as the surrounding environment.

Draw up plans

So when should you apply for planning permission? If you are building an extension or adding a window or door to an outside wall, you will definitely need planning permission.
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Buying Property – DIY survey

We all know that once you are buying property you have to obtain a survey from a qualified surveyor. This obviously costs quite a bit, but there are a few things you can look out for so you don’t waste your money.

Check for cracks

Starting with the outside of the property you wish to buy, check the foundations, are there any cracks? If you see earth banked up a wall that could be an indication that someone is trying to cover up a crack. Read More

Buying Property - be patient when saving

If you look at data that has been compiled over the past 25 years, house prices increase, on average (this is taking into consideration varying prices by region), by 8% per year. However, salaries only increase by, possibly, just 3% per year. So it's not surprising that so many people would like to buy a property, but find it difficult.

Buying property? You will have to save

Thankfully for those who are yet to get on the property ladder, property prices have begun to decline in the past six months. It’s impossible however to predict what will happen over the next six. This is because there are many external factors affecting the UK property market. This article is going to show you why it is important to be patient when buying property.
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