Good interior layout and good interior design is key to ensuring that your house comes top of the list in a potential buyer’s mind. We all know to keep to neutral colour schemes and to tidy up – but go too neutral and you risk making it bland and forgettable, too colourful and you risk alienating a whole section of potential buyers. Unworkable layouts are annoying, and cluttered spaces scream "too small”. Dirty, tatty kitchens and bathrooms are a big turn-off.
Selling your house when property is in short supply may not seem like the biggest challenge, but you should never underestimate how demanding buyers can be. If you want to create a good impression from the start, it’s essential that your property has ‘kerb appeal’. If the buyers don’t like what they see from the outside, they won’t even consider viewing the inside. Here are a few tips and ideas to ensure that your garden not only gets people through the front door, but making an offer as well.
Arrangement fees, rising standard variable rates and mortgage deals ending; common mortgage dilemmas.
Several SavvyWoman users have emailed in recently with questions about their mortgage, so I thought I'd answer the questions here...
Bank of England base rates may still be low at 0.5%, but that hasn’t stopped several mortgage lenders from raising their standard variable rates. The Skipton building society generated a number of headlines when it announced that its SVR would rise by almost 1.5%, but others’ rates have been creeping up as well. And with mortgage arrangement fees easily topping £1,000, how can you find the cheapest deal? And there’s advice on whether to go for a fixed or tracker rate if your mortgage deal is ending.
