Residential sales and letting agent, Mansons in the North East, shares its checklist of cost cutting tips to help reduce energy and maintenance costs As a tenant, you have far less control over implementing money-saving measures in your home than the average homeowner but that doesn’t mean that the amount you spend is already set […]
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Places such as Chessington becoming more popular with rise of home working
Renters are swapping inner London transport hubs for homes further afield as the need to commute has become less important than a desire for space, data on searches on property website Rightmove suggests.
Analysis of 60m searches in August showed steep falls in the number of searches for rental homes in commuter hubs such as Earl’s Court in west London, and New Cross in the south, while areas in outer London and beyond registered big increases.
Continue reading...All that was needed was a ballcock replaced and it won’t even explain how it cost that much
On my first post-lockdown visit to my 78-year-old mother who lives alone in Salisbury, I found her visibly upset. It soon emerged that she had asked a plumbing company called Rightio to replace a ballcock in her toilet and it later charged her £329. It also appeared to have signed her up to some kind of care plan costing £9.50 a month.
Rightio is a national firm that appears to subcontract local plumbers. She says that prior to the plumber arriving, Rightio took her debit card details, including her CVC number.
Continue reading...The mortgage is fully paid off, and, although I paid it all, it is in both our names
Q I would like to know who has more rights to the property that both my wife and I still occupy but may not for much longer as we are going through a crisis in our marriage.
Back in the 1980s I took out an endowment mortgage and paid for all the premiums for the endowment policy and all the mortgage interest payments. A number of years later, I got a joint mortgage with my wife but again paid for the whole of the mortgage.
Continue reading...Covid has caused terrible pain, but offers the chance to halt the financial juggernaut that sucks wealth from our urban centres
Coronavirus is changing the way we live in cities. Many people are now working from home and spending more time in their local communities. While some smaller businesses have reported they are thriving, urban centres are struggling to survive.
The benefits of this drop in commuting for carbon emissions, health and wellbeing are at odds with the financial model that has long underpinned city centre economies. It’s no surprise that the arbiters of financial capitalism have insisted that workers must return to the office. But what if instead of resisting these profound economic changes, we embraced them and built something better than the urban economy of the past?
Continue reading...Planning permission can seem a daunting process – OnTheMarket’s guide explains exactly what’s involved. What is planning permission and when do I need it? If you want to construct a new building or make large-scale changes to an existing structure, including extensions and outbuildings, you will need planning permission from the local authority. The purpose […]
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