How to attract premium prices for your Buy To Let Properties
By Orchards Estates on 15th Jun 2018,how can you ensure you are attracting the highest quality tenants who are prepared to pay a premium price? Here are five simple ways that don’t break...
South Somerset's most expensive homes
By Orchards Estates on 10th Jun 2018,In South Somerset there were 50 homes over £1m sold since 2007, with the most expensive sold for £3,050,000. Here...
Ask The Expert - Do issues over boundaries often cause problems?
By Orchards Estates on 9th Jun 2018,Q. Do issues over boundaries often cause problems? A. Not all that often, actually. But by their very nature, if and when...
Ask the Experts - We Need more space but love our house
By Orchards Estates on 2nd Jun 2018,Q: We need more space but we love the location of our house so don’t really want to move. Is there a ‘clever’ way of making more space and will the...
Ask the Experts - I’ve heard the expression ‘right to light’. Is it true?
By Orchards Estates on 26th May 2018,Yes, there is. The Prescription Act of 1832 introduced the easement of Ancient Lights in English law. The easement basically said that if someone had been
60 second home selling tips: Introduction
By Orchards Estates on 24th May 2018,How to get your property ready for selling so you achieve the highest possible price with the minimum amount of hassle....
New changes required for residential flats
By Orchards Estates on 17th May 2018,What are my responsibilities as a landlord? In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Government have instated a raft of new changes in order to...
My ‘cash buyer’ actually has a property to sell.
By Orchards Estates on 16th May 2018,What is a cash buyer? It turns out that my ‘cash buyer’ actually has a property to sell. How can this sort of thing happen, and what can I do?...
Are Cash Buyers on the decline?
By Orchards Estates on 9th May 2018,It is 50 years since the first decimalised coins hit the high street of the UK, and five years since the Land Registry first starting recording details of...
Are London Buyers Skewing House Prices in South Somerset?
By Orchards Estates on 21st Apr 2018,In a word, no. Interestingly, statistics reveal that of the 7,430 people who moved into South Somerset between mid-2015 and mid-2016, only 520 came from...