How often we see programmes on tv about improving our house or garden, the hosts showing us how jolly easy it all is and how you only need to buy this or that.   The favourite one is a particular houses for auction site – it’s compulsive viewing for anyone with an odd hour these days!  I actually know a couple for whom the house buying dream has become a reality – they’ve done up one house bought convenionally, making a small profit but they learned a massive amount about their abilities and limitations.  They are well on their way to

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This has been a very busy winter for houses coming onto the sales market in my immediate area.  The house design of rather comfortable executive style 4 and 5 bedrommed detached with integral double garage is on a nicely spacious plot takes up rather more land than would be allowed in today’s building frenzy.  This development was completed in the early 2000s and since then, financial and land restrictions have meant that no more big houses have come along.  Apart from those build to order on land acquired for the purpose by an individual.  You see on the house improvement

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There is certainly a great deal of movement in the local housing scene.  The Sold signs are springing up along each branch of this very attractive estate of executive sized 4 and 5 bedroomed detached, with double garage, houses.  The development was started in the 1990s in the beginning of the post ‘black Monday’ crash of 1988 when the country found itself not so badly off and everyone thought they were worth a much bigger house than they’d put up with before. Now in this current housing boom, which is sounding not dissimilar to the last ones, the sold signs

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