Article index
All 125 articles on The Property Decision, by section.
Buying
Section page →- The order property decisions actually arrive inAug 11, 2026
- What a chain actually is, and why it breaksAug 9, 2026
- Buying versus renting is arithmetic, not a proverbJul 3, 2026
- Working out the year a purchase breaks evenJun 27, 2026
- What best and final offers actually testsJun 24, 2026
- Gazumping, gazundering and the price of a non-binding agreementJun 22, 2026
- How to view a house when you are not a surveyorJun 18, 2026
- The second viewing is a different job from the firstJun 16, 2026
- Buying at auction: the moment risk transfersJun 10, 2026
- Buying off-plan means buying a descriptionJun 8, 2026
- The properties lenders dislike, and why cash buyers should careJun 4, 2026
- The cash a purchase needs that is not the depositJun 2, 2026
- New build or older house: two different cost curvesMay 29, 2026
- What the lender does after your offer is acceptedDec 1, 2025
- Buying a renovation project without underestimating itNov 25, 2025
- Buying a property that already has tenants in itNov 23, 2025
- Probate and repossession sales run to a different rhythmNov 18, 2025
- The questions to ask before you make an offerNov 16, 2025
- Choosing an area with the same rigour as the houseNov 13, 2025
- Buying abroad: the assumptions that do not travelNov 8, 2025
- Moving day, and the week either side of itNov 5, 2025
Selling
Section page →- Pricing a sale against the market rather than the mortgageJul 23, 2026
- Selling with an agent, and what the fee actually buysJul 9, 2026
- Selling first or buying first, and what each one costsMay 24, 2026
- The paperwork to assemble before you market a propertyMay 22, 2026
- Choosing between offers when the highest is not the bestMay 18, 2026
- When a buyer asks for a reduction after the surveyMay 16, 2026
- Selling in a slow market: price, wait or withdrawMay 12, 2026
- Quick-sale companies and part exchange, costedMay 9, 2026
- Why selling a flat takes longer than selling a houseMay 5, 2026
- Open houses, block viewings and one buyer at a timeMay 3, 2026
- What the listing has to do in the first three secondsApr 27, 2026
- What selling actually costs the sellerApr 25, 2026
- Preparing a house for sale without overspendingNov 3, 2025
- Sole agency, multiple agents and online-only modelsOct 31, 2025
- Selling without an agent, honestly costedOct 27, 2025
- Keeping a sale together between offer and exchangeOct 23, 2025
- Selling a property you have inheritedOct 19, 2025
- Selling a house that needs workOct 15, 2025
- Who your buyer is changes how the sale runsOct 14, 2025
- Changing agent when a sale has stalledOct 9, 2025
- Selling a property you currently let outOct 6, 2025
Renting
Section page →- Deposits, notice and the paperwork tenants should keepJul 19, 2026
- What renting actually costs a landlordJul 16, 2026
- Renting buys optionality, and optionality has a priceApr 22, 2026
- What a tenancy agreement can and cannot doApr 17, 2026
- Break clauses, and why so many of them failApr 15, 2026
- Referencing: what a landlord is actually checkingApr 12, 2026
- Repairs in a rented home: who is responsible for whatApr 7, 2026
- Sharing a tenancy: what joint and several liability meansApr 4, 2026
- When your landlord sells the property you live inApr 2, 2026
- Rent increases and the mechanisms behind themMar 28, 2026
- The end of a tenancy is decided at check-outMar 26, 2026
- Short lets, licences and lodgings are not tenanciesMar 23, 2026
- Renting from a distance without being defraudedMar 18, 2026
- Viewing a rental property in the fifteen minutes you getOct 3, 2025
- Guarantors: what signing for someone else commits you toSep 30, 2025
- Renting with pets, and how that negotiation worksSep 27, 2025
- Renewing, rolling on or leaving at the end of a fixed termSep 22, 2025
- Furnished, part-furnished and unfurnished, costedSep 18, 2025
- What a letting agent does, and who pays for itSep 16, 2025
- Becoming a landlord because you could not sellSep 12, 2025
- Bills, meters and who pays what in a tenancySep 10, 2025
Surveys & Condition
Section page →- Survey levels, and which one is worth paying forAug 5, 2026
- Damp findings are three different problems in one wordJul 31, 2026
- The three different numbers all called a valuationMar 16, 2026
- Subsidence, heave and settlement are three different eventsMar 12, 2026
- Which cracks matter and which do notMar 8, 2026
- What a survey explicitly does not coverMar 4, 2026
- Invasive plants and the transactions they stallMar 2, 2026
- How a surveyor reads a roof from the groundFeb 26, 2026
- Non-standard construction and what it means for youFeb 24, 2026
- Flood, ground and environmental risk before you commitFeb 18, 2026
- Electrics, heating and drainage: the specialist reportsFeb 15, 2026
- Further investigation recommended, and what to do about itFeb 12, 2026
- Timber decay, woodworm and the reports that oversell themSep 6, 2025
- Asbestos in a house is a management problemSep 3, 2025
- Snagging a new build: the inspection nobody schedulesAug 31, 2025
- Flat roofs age differently from pitched onesAug 25, 2025
- Windows, glazing and the seals that fail firstAug 24, 2025
- Chimneys, flues and the risk in a disused stackAug 19, 2025
- Off-mains drainage: septic tanks and treatment plantsAug 15, 2025
- Cladding and fire safety questions in a block of flatsAug 13, 2025
- Loft and garage conversions: the quality questionsAug 8, 2025
Legal & Paperwork
Section page →- What conveyancing is actually doing while nothing appears to happenJul 29, 2026
- Leasehold: the questions to ask before you offerJul 25, 2026
- Buying with someone you are not married toJul 6, 2026
- Freehold, leasehold and the other ways property is ownedFeb 8, 2026
- Title, registration and what the plan actually showsFeb 6, 2026
- Restrictive covenants and the things you cannot doFeb 2, 2026
- Rights of way, shared drives and access you rely onJan 31, 2026
- Boundaries: the fence is not the legal lineJan 26, 2026
- Indemnity insurance covers a risk, not a defectJan 24, 2026
- Work done without consent, and how it gets resolvedJan 19, 2026
- Exchange, completion and what changes at each momentJan 17, 2026
- Choosing a conveyancer, and what no sale no fee meansJan 13, 2026
- Source of funds, gifted deposits and the checks nobody warns you aboutJan 8, 2026
- Searches: what each one is actually looking forAug 6, 2025
- Listed buildings and conservation areas: buying inside a rulebookAug 4, 2025
- Extending a lease, and why the clock mattersJul 30, 2025
- Buying the freehold with your neighboursJul 27, 2025
- Property information forms and the cost of a careless answerJul 22, 2025
- Signing for someone else: attorneys, executors and trusteesJul 20, 2025
- Transferring a property between family membersJul 16, 2025
- When a purchase collapses: what you can recoverJul 12, 2025
Running a Home
Section page →- The running costs that start the day you completeJul 12, 2026
- Service charges, reserve funds and where the money goesJan 7, 2026
- Rebuild cost is not market valueJan 3, 2026
- The property taxes that continue after you move inDec 29, 2025
- A year of home maintenance in the order it should happenDec 28, 2025
- Where water actually gets into a buildingDec 23, 2025
- Trees, drains and the liabilities you share with neighboursDec 19, 2025
- Energy ratings measure the building, not your billsDec 18, 2025
- Replacing a heating system before it replaces itselfDec 12, 2025
- Illiquidity is a running cost of owning propertyDec 10, 2025
- The house file, and why it pays you back at saleDec 7, 2025
- What a home costs while nobody is living in itDec 3, 2025
- Household emergencies and the first ten minutesJul 11, 2025
- Hiring a builder without losing control of the jobJul 6, 2025
- Extending a house: the costs you cannot see on a drawingJul 2, 2025
- The cost of a garden, honestly countedJul 1, 2025
- Water, meters and the bill you can actually changeJun 25, 2025
- When a managing agent underperformsJun 23, 2025
- Service contracts, warranties and what they really coverJun 20, 2025
- Solar panels on a house you might sellJun 16, 2025