When you decide on a new project for the home or the office, there are several steps need to be taken before any actual work can take place.  Sitting down to work out what exactly needs to be supplied / built is a good place to start.  Once the product is agreed upon, the matter of finance comes into play.  If this is going to be a small refurbishment job, just updating and decorating, a much lighter cash or credit card injection can be considered.   However if a new room or two, perhaps using an integral garage and adding a

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There are a crop of houses in this immediate neighbourhood that have very quietly been sold without any hint of a sales activity.  No For Sale board forlornly calling out for interested viewers to come by.  The first it was known that something had happened was when the sold sign was installed for all to see.  The sold sign used to be kiss of death for a quick and incident free sale completion.     Not now though, things move very much faster than in the 1980s and 1990s when all conveyancing business had to be done in person or via the

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In today’s truly fast paced economic environment, there is very little room to manoever when it comes to building and construction projects.  Every spare centimetre and scrap of outside space has to be minutely accounted for.  The new housing springing up on the edge of urban developments is a prime example of how carefully land deals are negotiated and worked out.  Contracts are very specific about what can be built, the design and material criteria, as necessary to stop a proliferation of cheap and cheerful ‘ready made’ housing. A commercial developer has an ear to the ground an a ready

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