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There is a vast array of criteria to consider when budgeting for an upcoming house move in Cardiff.

Removal costs are often a forgotten expense. However, it is essential to account for them, preventing any nasty surprises.

We may sound like a broken record but property presentation really does matter when you’re trying to attract buyers and achieve the best price for your home.

Knowing when to sell your home is tricky.

Every homeowner wants to do what is best for their family and get the most profit from their property. So when is the best time to sell your Cardiff home?

Whether it’s a good old spring clean or you want to ensure your property in Cardiff is spick and span before you put your home on the market, choosing cleaning products that get the job done is essential!

We have become so used to seeing fancy, branded packaging lining the shelves of the cleaning aisle that many of the traditional cleaning methods that our Grandmothers would swear by have disappeared.

Did you know purchasers will pay more for a smart home? The claim was contained in the latest Smart Home Buyers Index produced by Samsung. If you want to know just how much more a smart home is worth, the tech giant’s research found buyers will pay a 7.7% premium.

Can a tenant buy my house? Great question!

Perhaps your tenants have expressed a desire to purchase your house and get on the property ladder, or maybe you are planning to offer the opportunity to them as you want to move your focus elsewhere.

Try as we might to adopt a more European attitude and feel totally comfortable with renting our entire lives, many of us aspire to homeownership. It’s an aim that stems back to the 1980s when the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, set out to create a ‘property-owning democracy’.

When it comes to adding value to a home, most people automatically think of big, expensive projects like a conservatory or an additional bedroom.

While these will undoubtedly add value to your property in Cardiff, it’s not always as much as people think, and in some cases, it can be far more cost-effective to repurpose an existing room than to build a whole new one.

House prices continued to be a point of property fascination. The figures are divided into two: asking prices and sold prices. Asking price trends give us a brilliant snapshot of how positive the market is. 

Owning a buy to let and renting out your property can be very rewarding. It can be a way of having a regular income coming in, together with actually owning something that should increase in value over time.

If you are considering renting out a property, there are many things you need to make sure you get right, such as rental income, statutory obligations (e.g. gas and electric certificates), and of course having the right tenants in-situ.

Earlier in the year we reported on indoor air quality and it’s such a hot topic that Which? has conducted further research into the matter. Its most recent area of analysis concerned gas hobs – an appliance found in millions of UK homes.

Skips. Cement mixers. Brick dust. People with hard hats and high-viz jackets milling about. How do these make you feel? Just like Marmite, homeowners have a love/hate relationship with renovations. What camp do you fall in?