According to police, residents of Melbourne in Derbyshire are reluctant to report incidents for fear of causing property prices to drop. But the town is hardly the drugs capital of the UK …
Name: Melbourne.
Age: First recorded in the Domesday Book, 1086.
Continue reading...Since last orders were called at The Old Chequers this former pub has been transformed into a beautiful family home. The front door off the quiet street in scenic Welwyn Village in Hertfordshire opens into what was the split level bar area and is now a reception room, with windows to the front of the […]
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Malcolm Button, Senior Estate Agency Manager at Aberdein Considine, gives some top tips for ensuring that outside space looks fresh and cared for Ensuring that your property looks fantastic indoors is always important but it’s crucial to spare a thought for your garden, which during the cold winter months can often become neglected. To help […]
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Sales of plastic hedges, shrubs and lawns are rising rapidly, but they are bad for the environment and not necessarily low-maintenance or low-cost
Low-maintenance, evergreen lushness and an instant garden – it is easy to see why the sale of plastic plants is bursting into life. According to trend forecasters, sales of artificial plants are booming, with hedges, shrubs and lawns leading the trend.
Some are better than others, says the gardening writer Jane Perrone. The cheaper ones “haven’t been particularly well-made with plastic that is UV-stable, so within a short amount of time they are going to look quite miserable. There is work starting in terms of these companies trying to ensure these products are recycled at the end of their lives, but ultimately you’re going to end up with this thing that is probably going to end up in landfill, and has been manufactured with petrochemicals. But I can see why people would want them – not everyone wants to garden or feel they have the skills to maintain plants.”
Continue reading...Sales of plastic hedges, shrubs and lawns are rising rapidly, but they are bad for the environment and not necessarily low-maintenance or low-cost
Low-maintenance, evergreen lushness and an instant garden – it is easy to see why the sale of plastic plants is bursting into life. According to trend forecasters, sales of artificial plants are booming, with hedges, shrubs and lawns leading the trend.
Some are better than others, says the gardening writer Jane Perrone. The cheaper ones “haven’t been particularly well-made with plastic that is UV-stable, so within a short amount of time they are going to look quite miserable. There is work starting in terms of these companies trying to ensure these products are recycled at the end of their lives, but ultimately you’re going to end up with this thing that is probably going to end up in landfill, and has been manufactured with petrochemicals. But I can see why people would want them – not everyone wants to garden or feel they have the skills to maintain plants.”
Continue reading...Adults in their mid-30s to mid-40s are three times more likely to rent than 20 years ago
Home ownership has collapsed for prime working age adults, according to official figures that show those in their mid-30s to mid-40s are three times more likely to rent than 20 years ago.
In a reflection of surging house prices and a lost decade for wage growth since the financial crisis, the Office for National Statistics found that a third of 35- to 44-year-olds in England were renting from a private landlord in 2017, compared with fewer than one in 10 in 1997.
Continue reading...I’m in doubt because one of them has a help to buy Isa and this may disqualify her as a first-time buyer
Q I am in a dilemma as to what to do with an inherited property. My first thoughts were to sign the property jointly over to my two daughters. However, one of them has a help to buy Isa and has been told that if she already owns property (albeit gifted to her), she would not be eligible as a first time buyer. Is this correct?
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A Yes that is correct. And no longer counting as a first-time buyer would mean that she was no longer eligible to claim the help to buy Isa* bonus paid on the completion on the purchase of a first-time home. More expensively, transferring inherited property to your daughter would mean that she (and possibly her sister if she is also a potential first-time buyer) would no longer qualify for zero stamp duty land tax on the first £300,000 of a first-time home costing up to £500,000; the amount over £300,000 and up to £500,000 would be charged at 5%.
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