Oct 18, 2026
The Ten-Minute Security Check for Your Home This Autumn By the end of this month it will be dark before teatime. And an unlit house at 6pm tells anyone who cares to look that nobody is home. Octobe
Oct 11, 2026
Moving House This Autumn? Look After Your Head Too Picture this: it's 11pm on a Tuesday. You are sitting on the bedroom floor between two half-packed boxes, holding a school photo you forgot existe
Oct 4, 2026
Improve or Move? Every homeowner arrives at this question eventually, usually standing in a kitchen that has stopped working for the family in it. Do we spend the money here, or do we spend it movin
Sep 27, 2026
Checks to Make Before Signing With an Agent Most people choose an estate agent on a feeling. Three agents come round, one of them seems the most confident, or the most likeable, or quotes the highes
Sep 20, 2026
Judging a Neighbourhood Before You Commit People agonise over the house and take the street on trust. It is understandable. The house is what you look at, photograph, measure and lie awake thinking
Sep 13, 2026
Heritage Open Days: 11 to 20 September There is a building you drive past every week and have never been inside. A chapel, a mill, an old town hall, a house behind a wall that you have always been m
Sep 7, 2026
Hemel Hempstead Property Market Update September 2026 The latest Hemel Hempstead property figures provide some encouraging evidence for sellers heading into the autumn market. During August, fewer