How To

Property

Our 'property' section provides property buying advice on the property market. Whether you are a tenant, rent to students or just want information on home safety and security, we have all your needs right here. We even have a country specific range of guide books dedicated to buying property abroad, from buying a house in Spain to buying property in eastern Europe.

Renting a property and need to know more about tenancy in the UK? Or maybe you're just getting started and want to know about buying a flat for the first time? Our free online 'how to' books hold the answers you need.

Property

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  How To Be Your Own Estate Agent

  This book provides effective advice on making a successful property sale, with estate agent inside know-how on valuing, advertising and marketing your proper...

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  Buy To Let In France

  This book offers advice on investing in French property, covering purchase process, raising mortgage finance, French tax and much more...

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  Beating The Property Clock

  This book offers advice on when to invest in the property market, as well as considering growth and yield investment strategies...

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  How To Buy And Let A Holiday Cottage

  This book considers all aspects of buying to let, including where to buy & renovating property. The book is also a useful source of advice on marketing a...

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  How To Be A Property Millionaire

  This book provides you with fundamental investment strategies, ranging from buying at auction, investing off plan, and overseas investment, as well as helpfu...

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  A French Restoration

  This book provides advice on house renovation in France, moving to France and obtaining French citizenship...

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  France A Handbook For New Residents

  This book provides a practical guide to buying a house in France, moving to, working and living in France. The book also covers other aspects of French life,...

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  Buying Property In Eastern Europe

  This book provides information on investment property in eastern europe as well as offering country specific advice such as living in Bulgaria or buying in T...

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  The Downshifters Guide To Relocation

  This book offers advice on relocating for those aspiring a simple life. The book also provides information on budgeting, buying a property and working from h...

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  Buying A Property In Portugal

  This book is a guide to buying a house in Portugal, offering advice on dealing with estate agents, arranging mortgages and adapting to Portuguese culture...

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  Buying A Property In Bulgaria

  Bulgaria is attracting increasing interest from property buyers around the world - fascinated by its property investment potential, glorious stretches of gol...

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  How to Invest in The UK Property Market

  After years of successfully building and managing his own property business, Gerry FitzGerald has produced a thorough and comprehensive guide to investing wi...

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  How To Buy A Home In Spain

  This book provides information moving to Spain, living in Spain and buying a property in Spain. It also offers useful advice on estate agents in Spain, Spani...

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  Investing In Student Buy To Let

  This book provides landlord advice, including finding and investing in student property as well as letting property.

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  The New Landlord's Guide to Letting

  This book provides landlord advice on letting property, buy to let mortgages and the steps to take to become a landlord...

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  Buy To Let In Spain

  This book offers valuable advice on buying property in Spain, as well as providing an insight into Spanish culture and traditions...

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  The Home Security Handbook

  This book provides the best methods of home protection, including conducting a neighbourhood and house survey, as well as analysing the crime rate in order t...

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  Buying A Property In France

  This book provides information on buying property in France and gives advice on selecting the right region, the right property and some vital tips for managi...

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  How To Buy A Flat

  This book offers information on buying a flat and letting a flat, as well as advice on property laws and how to be a landlord...

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  Buying A Property In Spain

  This book provides valuable information on buying Spanish property & provides an insight into Spanish culture.

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  The Tenant's Survival Guide

  This book provides tenants advice on tenancy agreements and tenancy deposit schemes when renting property, as well as offering essential information on tenan...

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  How to Research Your House

  This book shows you how to search your house history, pointing you towards sources such as the land registry records and ordnance survey maps...

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  Getting The Builders In

  Aims to deliver management techniques that suit projects ranging from one thousand to one million pounds.

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  The Landlords Survival Guide

  This book provides landlords with help and advice on the regulations, laws, processes and procedures for investing in property...

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  Variable Rate Mortgages

  Looking for a variable rate mortgage? This free article gives you all the information you need to find the best mortgage for you.

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  Mortgage Arrears

  If you're having difficulties meeting your mortgage payments, this free online article helps you to understand the implications of mortgage arrears and maps ...

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  Property Auctions

  Find out more about the pros and cons of buying a property at auction in this free article.

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  Bad Debt Mortgages

  Article explaining bad debt mortgages and how to improve your bad credit rating

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  Shared Ownership Mortgages

  Considering a shared ownership mortgage? Find out more in this free article.

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  Best Buy-To-Let Mortgages

  Find out more about getting the best buy-to-let mortage for you in this free article.

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  Refinancing Mortgages

  Find out more about refinancing mortages in this free article

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  Mortgage Loans

  Keep up-to-date with the ever changing mortgage market in this free article

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  Repayment Loans

  Considering a repayment loan? Find out more about the various types available in this free article.

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  Buy to Let Remortgage

  It is always a good idea to regularly check to see whether there is a buy to let remortgage deal available that will be a better option than the current mort...

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  Remortgaging Property

  Navigate your way through the mortgage marketplace & work out whether remortgaging is the best thing for you in this How To article.

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  Buy To Let in the UK

  If you're considering whether entering the buy-to-let market is right for you, find out more in this How To article.

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  Buying Property in Northern Cyprus

  This article explains how to buy a valuable property in Northern Cyprus.

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  Property in Turkey

  Turkey has surged in popularity with foreign property buyers in recent years, overwhelmingly along the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts.

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  Property in Cyprus

  When people talk about buying property in Cyprus, they are usually referring to buying in the Republic of Cyprus, the Greek section of the island, rather tha...

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  TheTenant's Survival Guide

  Practical information for all prospective or existing tenants on how renting works - and the essential do's and dont's everyone must consider before renting ...

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  Do I Need Planning Permission

  Making alterations to your property or planning some home improvements? This article helps you to understand how planning regulations may affect you

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  Right to Buy Mortgages

  A simple article explaining Right to Buy Mortgages

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  Ask The Architect

  An Architect answers your property related questions

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  The Apprentice Property Master

  A guide to successfully renting property and the buy to let market

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  Getting the Builders In

  How to manage homebuilding and renovation projects

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  Online Mortgage Rates

  Find out more about getting the mortagage that's right for you on the internet with this free online article.

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  Repayment mortgages

  Find out more about repayment mortgages in this free online article, helping you to make in informed choice about the mortgage that's right for you.

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  Self-employed mortgages

  Self-employed? This article will help you to find the mortgage that is best suited to your income and cashflow.

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  Conveyancing

  Conveyancing would seem to be a relatively simple process - the transfer of property from one person to another. It can actually be a complex process fraught...

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  Buildings Insurance

  Not only is buildings insurance vital, as it covers the roof over your head, but it is a requirement of mortgage providers as they need to protect the securi...

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  The A-Z of Home Security

  A comprehensive guide to home security, 'The A-Z of Home Security", is an essential book for those wanting to know everything about how to improve your ...

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  Equity release schemes

  Equity release schemes can be complicated and not ideal for everyone, and so it is important to take impartial professional advice before committing to one.

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  Home Insurance

  For most people, home insurance consists of buildings insurance - covering the repair or rebuilding of your property and its fixtures in the event of damage ...

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  Re-mortgaging

  Re-mortgaging - where you replace your existing mortgage with a new one - can be a good idea if you are obtaining a new mortgage with better features.

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  Rental Insurance

  Standard home insurance policies are unlikely to be suitable for both landlords and tenants alike. Indeed, not disclosing that the property is being let out ...

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  A guide to buying property in France

  A handy step-by-step guide for anyone considering buying property in France

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  The Essential Guide To Flatsharing

  A handy guide to successful flatshares, helping to avoid the pitfalls of sharing a property

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  The Buy To Let Manual

  A guide to investing in property and making the most of the buy-to-let market

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  Manage a Homebuild and Restoration Project

  A handy guide to managing a restoration or home building project

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  Landlord Insurance

  Most domestic buildings policies do not offer the landlord sufficient cover for tenancy events, find out how to protect your investment with this free book.

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  Home Exchange – the holiday alternative?

  Home exchanging is a popular holiday alternative, find out how to do it

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  Sell Your House With an Online Estate Agent

  Just as buying a house has moved online, selling your house online is becoming increasingly common. But how do you go about it?