Dreamy summer afternoons spent meandering through fields. Picnics of sandwiches made from freshly baked bread and homemade lemonade, eaten leisurely beside a babbling brook.

Thank you Hockley, collection complete! We have had a busy couple of weeks collecting generous donations of gifts from visitors to our office in Spa Road at Hockley to pass onto Canvey Rotary Club for their project in association with Ford Motor Company to send items to Poland.

Our Hockley branch has become a pop up collection point for the supply of essentials to Ukranians displaced to Poland by the Russian invasion. We are very grateful to our local community for the support.

The bright lights of London were calling our successful sales team this week after recording our best income month since we launched our business all the way back in 1972.

Managing hundreds of properties across South Essex makes us the market leaders for lettings and property management. That status has been earned by years of hard work by our experienced lettings team under Toms leadership . Congratulations on their latest award, it's not quite the FA Cup but don't tell Tom that!

Well not quite the Oscar but the slightly cheaper plastic version available at almost no cost from Amazon at least! Moving home can be a tremendously stressful time for people but an outstanding sales progressor like Suzanne instantly calms the transaction and leaves clients with only happy memories of moving home.

We have been delighted to support the fundraising efforts of kind hearted Joanne Randall who fund raised a fabulous £755 to purchase books for distribution to local youngsters by Southend Food bank.

Our Hockley team are raising funds for Marie Curie UK, a fabulously important charity again this Spring selling our bespoke knitted daffodils for a small donation for the charity.

Our popular 'Lockdown Library' is very well supported by our neighbours in Hockley with hundreds of books passing through the box over the last couple of years.

If you are already a landlord, you will know about the endless rules and regulations you have to abide by. If you are not yet a landlord but are thinking about becoming one, this article will help keep you on the right side of the law!

Many property searchers consider the bathroom as a key selling point when buying a property. If the bathroom is a bit naff, it can certainly put a buyer off. So, what will make your bathroom capture the attention of buyers and keep those offers coming in?

After a long cold winter, the early spring flowers are finally shooting up from the ground. But as gardens begin to 'spring' back to life, things can start to look a bit untidy.