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How to find an estate agent to sell your home

Maybe it’s an emergency or you’ve got a job promotion that needs you to relocate; or simply, you’re sick of living in the same house for years and you now need a new place for yourself and family. Regardless the reason to sell your old home, it’s a big decision. You’re not only letting go of just the walls and …

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6 Expert Tips to Sell Your Property Quickly & Hassle-Free

Selling out a property can be a meticulous task, and if you are on a tight schedule, the resultant frustrations may overpower your composure, creating a huge loss in the deal that follows. The need of such a moment is to make sure certain conditions are met before you goout in the market to list out your property for sale. …

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Fracking

This time last year uproar was caused in the country as Fracking stole the headlines across our national news. When Cuadrilla were granted permission to set up the largest fracking site in the UK. We have noticed in the news that Fracking is coming back to headlines and we do not want to sit on the fence in such a …

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Train power and the effects on our homes

Websites like Zoopla often tell us about the distance a property is away from the local train station. How did the train station become so significant? So much so that Zoopla considering the proximity between a property and a train station a buying factor? Train power is freight-ning It’s important to remember that without trains we would never have had …

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A month after Brexit

With the dust almost settling post referendum in Britain we are now able to make a more informed approach in terms of Brexit. As House prices fell by 1% and we can see the housing market has a bad swing in momentum. Considering in June house prices rose by 1.5% according to Halifax, we can only assume that Brexit played …

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Students Property Nightmare

Looking for student houses can be tiresome for many. In Manchester, this student house area is most notably the area of Fallowfield and Ladybarn, despite being 3 miles away from their campuses. Students, if anything, are fed up of being treated by certain estate agents that just rip them off blatantly. We at Atwel James are writing this as part of the …

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The Trendiest Place to Live?

Manchester. Britain’s trendiest place to live, apparently? Manchester isn’t the largest city in Britain, yet certainly up there. It seems to have a certain vibe about it that really is unique and perhaps we wouldn’t call it trendy as much as we would call it funky. Here are a few reasons why we believe Manchester is the place to live …

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Solar power the future for global housing?

The sun provides us with vital energy for the Earth. Grows our plants, provides us with warmth and light (less so in the UK). Imagine if we can use this energy for the sun in a meaningful way… This is what solar power tries to do. With non-renewable sources running out like coal and crude oil, will we really move …

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The Housing Market Responding to Brexit

With the EU referendum result the world has witnessed a massive slump in markets and stocks across the globe from the FTSE 100 to the NIKKEI 255 in Japan. What does Brexit mean for the housing market in the UK? If there is anything we have already discovered since the result, is that uncertainty definitely deters investors and businesses. Prices …

The history of houses is something we don’t usually think about, but a lot of the time it dictates berthing about our lives. If we were today say for instance the worst economic crisis in the Great Depression was caused as a result of our homes, you’d call us mad. However if we take a revisionist approach we can see …