Are you looking to buy a new property? Don't make any offers until you have the answers to these crucial questions.

Our Hockley sales team we delighted to receive a visit from 1st Hockley Rainbows armed with delicious handmade crown biscuits and a special commemorative badge to thank us for organising the flag display in |Hockley at the weekend.

Our homes are our castles, and we like nothing more than styling and personalising them to our own tastes. DIY is a huge business in the UK, and almost all of us have an ongoing project, improving or changing some aspect of our home, changing wallpaper, paint colours, or maybe even tiles and flooring. But how much could this DIY obsession affect the value of our home?

If 99% of property searchers start their search for their dream home online, should you be impressed by the brochure that an agent tells you they will create?

Man's best friend is great, but it is not always the best when you are trying to sell your home. Here are some helpful tips to consider.

Our award-winning Hockley team have again proved themselves, community heroes, by decorating the entire Hockley Village shopping area with hundreds of Union flags ready to celebrate the Kings' Coronation on May 6th. We didn't want the Village to look bare in the lead-up to Coronation day so delivered our latest community project.

We just love, love, love completion day at our offices, the moment when the stresses and strains of the moving process disappear and you collect the keys to your new home. We make sure that people enter a relationship with our agency as clients and quickly become friends of our business right through the process and beyond.

The New Year’s enthusiasm for moving home reaches boiling point as the daffodils burst open making Spring traditionally the most popular time in the UK for buying and selling homes. With the Easter holiday on the horizon our sales teams are preparing for the rush of buyers registering to buy a property just like yours!

When marketing a property for sale, the key is ensuring it reaches a broader audience to find the perfect buyer. The ideal solution is for the exposure of your property marketing to be comprehensive and wide enough to ensure that the maximum number of potential buyers can be found, resulting in a higher level of demand and, therefore, a higher value. This will lead to more viewings, offers, and higher sale prices - what every seller seeks.

Most of us do not think about our credit scores too often. We happily meander through life without giving it a second thought until we make a large purchase. Something that means we need to apply for finance of some kind, and it slowly dawns on us that we really should know our credit score. Whether it's for a credit card, car finance, or a mortgage, it all rests on that little credit score that you have, until this point, completely ignored.

Once you have a kitchen, dining room, living room, bedrooms and bathrooms, what else do large properties use their rooms for?? There comes a point when you run out of names for them all! Luxury properties will often have 'extra' rooms, over and above those that you would expect, and often it is these additional rooms that make us feel that a property is that little bit 'extra', setting it apart from the norm.

When marketing a property for rent, the biggest concerns for most landlords are usually the amount of rent they can earn from the property and the speed they can get a tenant moved in. If the property appeals to the target tenant, it will likely rent quickly and for a good price. If the property is not attracting the attention in the market you'd hoped, perhaps there's something that you could change to entice a tenant?