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.
Tens of thousands of people move home because of disputes with neighbours, while many others end up in court.
If you fall out with your neighbour, it’s not just the emotional consequences you will have to deal with. If you resort to court action, it could cost thousands of pounds.
Research by a high street bank shows that over 90,000 people sell up because they don’t like the neighbours or the neighbourhood. While neighbourhood disputes can start over something relatively trivial, they can easily escalate into a major battle. Towering Leylandii hedges caused so many problems a few years ago that the government introduced new rules so that local authorities could intervene if necessary. You may feel your neighbour is being completely unreasonable (and you may be right), but think twice before you head to the courts.
