Waiting for your home to sell can be incredibly stressful. Here OnTheMarket.com agent Austin Gray suggests five ways you can help get the ‘ball rolling’ The idea of selling your home, especially for the first time, can be a daunting one, let alone if the property isn’t selling. No sale period is the same so […]
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Changes could mean shock for owners who have rented out homes when they come to sell
Thousands of “accidental landlords” could be clobbered with much higher tax bills when they come to sell their properties as a result of measures in the budget.
Based on the government’s own scenario, someone selling a property they once lived in – but then rented out for a while – could typically end up more than £13,000 worse off than under the current rules.
Continue reading...It hasn’t changed that much since 1951
What’s going for it? There are two Wimborne Minsters, one fitting neatly inside the other like a matryoshka doll. Wimborne Model Town, recreating the “real” one outside, was built in the 1950s and its Eastmans family butcher, H Langer & Sons leather goods and Thomas The Tank Engine trainline are consequently straight out of Call The Midwife. You shrink to normal size, though, in the “real” doppelganger, not that you’d notice. Give or take the Vibe Lounge, wheelie bins and Costa Coffee, the town outside hasn’t changed that much since 1951. Old streets of porticoes and bay windows; white-haired ladies rocking the Queen’s hairdo; panama hats not beanies in the windows at Bartletts Menswear Specialists. It’s an ancient place, been around since the Saxons, so Wimborne takes the comings and goings of fashion in its stride. Which is probably why it’s so popular with retirees. And me. Sucker for a panama hat, me.
The case against Perhaps a little dull. It’s all about the quiet life and nice sourdough from Number 9 On The Green. Ravers, though, can large it in Bournemouth down the road.
Continue reading...It hasn’t changed that much since 1951
What’s going for it? There are two Wimborne Minsters, one fitting neatly inside the other like a matryoshka doll. Wimborne Model Town, recreating the “real” one outside, was built in the 1950s and its Eastmans family butcher, H Langer & Sons leather goods and Thomas The Tank Engine trainline are consequently straight out of Call The Midwife. You shrink to normal size, though, in the “real” doppelganger, not that you’d notice. Give or take the Vibe Lounge, wheelie bins and Costa Coffee, the town outside hasn’t changed that much since 1951. Old streets of porticoes and bay windows; white-haired ladies rocking the Queen’s hairdo; panama hats not beanies in the windows at Bartletts Menswear Specialists. It’s an ancient place, been around since the Saxons, so Wimborne takes the comings and goings of fashion in its stride. Which is probably why it’s so popular with retirees. And me. Sucker for a panama hat, me.
The case against Perhaps a little dull. It’s all about the quiet life and nice sourdough from Number 9 On The Green. Ravers, though, can large it in Bournemouth down the road.
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