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Making the most of your holiday home
Arabella Youens finds out how to maximise your holiday home’s potential for lettings when you’re not there
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Time to buy the freehold
The complex issues of freehold and leasehold negotiations are now affecting buyers and sellers at the lower end of the residential market. Here are some top tips
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Top tips on speeding up sales
While HIPs are now mandatory for most property sales, it's still worth going a bit further to help speed up the sale of your property
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How to convert your barn
A barn is a great way to add value to your property, but you need to think carefully about the best way to develop its potential
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Spend wisely: improvement tips
Only a very small number of improvements will add genuine value to a house. Carla Passino finds out what they are
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The hidden south of France
Off the well-trodden track of the Cote d'Azur and Provence, France still has plenty to offer in terms of lovely locations for second homes, finds Charlotte Cubitt
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The right year to upsize
This year will provide many opportunities to upsize your property
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Top tips on moving to the country
After years of helping clients fulfill their rural dream, Phil Spencer offers some candid advice on the unwelcome truth that lies behind the idyll
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Beware of overcapitalising
Sellers be warned: this is not a market where buyers will pay extra for the whims of previous owners but small jobs are still worth tackling
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How to choose an estate agent
The buyer, agent and vendor relationship is sometimes a fraught one. Phil Spencer offers his advice on how to make the process easier
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Buying property in Jamaica
Once the tropical getaway of choice, Jamaica has suffered from crime and resort-building. But now it's time for us to rediscover its charms
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Phil Spencer's advice on investment
People are shying away from investing in the property market for the wrong reason. With the right ingredients, this could be the ripest opportunity to buy in years
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How to avoid chains breaking
In this cooler market, property transactions often grind to a halt as parts of the chain break. Cheryl Markosky has a few tips on how to keep the show on the road
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In the market for a chateau
International celebrities, successful businessmen and European aristocrats have all been drawn to what are perhaps France's most beautiful homes
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Property in the Seychelles
Forget the Caribbean. For an idyllic island home in the ultimate wow-factor setting, the Seychelles is the place to go, says a smitten Arabella Youens.
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Digging out the basement
Basement projects are expensive exercises but when matched against the costs of moving, they start to add up
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Homes where you holidayed
A modern trend is buying property where you were happy on holiday as a child, says Cheryl Markosky
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Buying property in France
Arabella Youens guides you through the do's and don't's of buying a property in France
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Property in St Tropez
If you are keen on the glamour and exitement of St Tropez but want to avoid the billionaire-level prices then head to the hills
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Phil Spencer on the property market
Phil Spencer believes that heavy showers are on their way in the property market but a downturn isn’t all bad news
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Madeira sheds its sherry image
Once a refuge for the genteel winder sun seeker, Madeira is attracting a younger property buying crowd to its wonderful outdoor sports and scenery
