Behind every advent calendar door, a chocolate. Behind ours, a small job that gets your home ready to sell in 2027.
In this two minute read, we cover what last weeks Bank of England decision means for your home, and the dates that matter from here, including the ones the Budget has added.
A buyer decides more about your house from the pavement than you would ever want to believe. They are not being unfair. They are just arriving before you have had a chance to explain anything, and in November they are arriving in the dark, in the wet, to a garden that has stopped doing you any favours.
Every winter the same conversation starts in thousands of rented homes. The heating is on, the bill is frightening, and the place still is not warm. So what can a tenant actually insist on, and what is simply an old house being an old house? The line is clearer than most people think.
Every November the moustaches appear. A few of them are magnificent. Most of them are not. That is rather the point. A bad moustache gets commented on, a comment becomes a conversation, and the conversation is the entire reason Movember exists.
There is a moment every autumn when the light goes early, the heating clicks on for the first time, and a very sensible thought arrives. We will leave it until the spring. It is one of the most expensive thoughts in property.