Finance
Below are our 9 articles in the 'finance' category:

Contractor’s costs form a large proportion of the budget for any renovation project so it’s vital to keep control as the project progresses. It’s disheartening to watch property programs on TV when ...

There are a number of different areas where insurance cover is worth considering for a renovation project. Apart from anything else, ordinary household insurance won’t normally allow a property to be ...

There’s no way any necessary cost can be avoided on a renovation project but how can you keep the big costs down? The answers are a combination of looking forward and being canny on the way.
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An essential part of any building or renovation job is setting the budget in the first place and then controlling the costs as the project progresses, hopefully smoothly. This needs effort; you would ...

Planning permission is something that a lot of people are unreasonably scared of and there’s no need to be. Of course, some planners can be a little irritating and seem to be sticklers for rules, but ...

Not many people realise that there might be grants available to help with renovating a property. They aren’t easy to find out about and they are carefully screened to keep out property developers. ...

What are the three things to look for when buying the right property? Yes that’s right, everyone knows that one: “location, location location”. But do you know the three most important things you ...

The price of people’s time is one of the major proportions of a renovation budget and explains why many people want to do a lot of the work themselves. But the nature of the housing market means that ...

One thing that any professional developer will tell you is that although planning is essential for success there’s nearly always something that you hadn’t bargained for on every project. That’s where ...