National Pet Month commences on the 1st of April, a chance for all to celebrate our fury, scaley, and feathery friends and help raise awareness of responsible pet ownership.

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Don’t make the rookie mistake of cutting corners with reference checks – it’s a sure-fire way to wind up with a nightmare tenant. A three-minute read.

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You've done the viewing and fallen in love with the property. You've weighed up all of the pros and cons, and after sleeping on it, finally decided to put in an offer. So, you mentally run through the phone call to the agents and how you think it'll go. And then, nervously, you make the call. But, it doesn't go quite as you'd planned. So, how can you make the most of the offering experience to ensure that your offers are taken seriously and, more importantly, get accepted!

As a tenant, you're always acutely aware that the property you live in doesn't actually belong to you. You're told not to hang pictures. Not to redecorate. So, when there are problems with the property, you'll call the landlord and let them know. This is their responsibility to sort out, not yours, as it's their property, right? But what should you be doing yourself as the tenant?

When looking to buy a property, you'll notice that estate agents use various terminology and jargon when listing the marketing price. What do they even mean? And how do these different phrases affect you when you're making offers?

Dreamy summer afternoons spent meandering through fields. Picnics of sandwiches made from freshly baked bread and homemade lemonade, eaten leisurely beside a babbling brook.

A question mark has been raised over the suitability of a scheme starting next month to encourage the switch from gas boilers to carbon-neutral heat pumps.

With warmer weather on the horizon and the clocks going forward on Sunday 27th giving us all an extra hour of daylight, the next few weeks are the perfect time to get your garden ready for Spring.

April will see the average energy bill rise by an eye-watering 54%, with those living in homes that are less energy-efficient likely to struggle the most with the mounting costs of keeping a home running.

Analysis of first-time buyer house prices has found that due to the effects the pandemic has had on the market, those attempting to get their first foot on the ladder today are much worse off.