According to GOV.uk, house prices near the 10% best-performing primary schools have an 8% higher average value than homes in the surrounding area. Homes within catchment areas of the 10% best-performing, non-selective secondary schools are also priced 6.8% higher.*
If you’re planning for the future, it makes sense to snag a home within a great catchment area. Here’s how you can find yours:
Whether you’re on the market for your first home, or looking for an investment property, one of the key things to consider is: how much work are you willing to put in once you’ve been handed the keys?
If you’re on the fence between buying a fixer-upper or a move-in ready home, here are some pros and cons for both:
Whether it's freezing cold or scorching hot outside, adequate insulation is essential for maintaining comfort inside your home while keeping energy bills to a minimum. Let's look at the impact of insulation, how you can insulate your home, and how it helps lower your energy expenditure.
The importance of good insulation Insulation plays a crucial role in maintaining energy efficiency and keeping warmth inside your home by reducing the exchange of heat between the outside and inside of your home. Good insulation helps to keep your home at a consistent temperature, preventing it from becoming too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter.
It also has other benefits, such as soundproofing your home and reducing the amount of moisture in your home to prevent damp.
With a greater sense of optimism in the air, lowering mortgage rates, and a compelling choice of properties to entice you, the UK property market is feeling good. A new year always brings new trends, fresh ways of buying, interesting properties, and a fresh influx of homemovers. Now is a good time to open your mind to the endless possibilities.
Mortgage rates are falling below 4% With sub 4% mortgage rates making a welcome appearance on the mortgage market, homemovers are excited and relieved. For many years, mortgage rates were unrealistically low, and this has created the perception that today’s rates are higher than they actually are. Mortgage rates will not in the foreseeable future return to super-low levels, and those who know this are making their moves and getting increasingly better deals. After all, you can always change your mortgage deal in a couple of years.
With the arrival of sub 4% mortgage deals, banks are attempting to outdo each other by setting headline-grabbing rates. And with better deals on the horizon, with lower rates for those with smaller deposits, homemovers are starting to make a move.