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edecorating before you put your home on the market is a time-honoured way of increasing its appeal. Making each room feel fresher and improving how it appears in photographs will make the right impression with buyers but a new coat of paint can also alter spatial perceptions.

Summer slowdown? Not from where we’re sitting. The home moving market continued to deliver results, reports and regional data as it moved through July. Here are 11 things we learnt about buying, selling, renting and investing over the last 4 weeks.

Much has been made of resistance among landlords to upgrade their properties to be more energy efficient but if this year’s Handelsbanken Property Investor Report is accurate, the tide has turned.

It’s true that the property market cools slightly during July and August but if you’re looking to sell your home for a higher price, look no further than a summer sale, as a new survey has proven.

With the votes counted and a host of new faces milling about Downing Street, we can start to unpick what a Labour Government will mean for buyers, sellers, renters and property investors.

Was it more expensive to buy or rent a property in June? Has momentum stalled, with home movers starting their summer holidays early? With six months of the year complete, we’re in a good position to evaluate the analysis. Here are 11 things we learnt about the property market in June.

Sellers hoping to be moved into a new home for this Christmas need to put their property up for sale in the coming days to stand the best chance of completing in time for the December holidays.

In the space of just eight weeks, the subject of using pets to help sell your property has made it into the national newspapers. Both the Financial Times and The Times have run features on the art of property sales with pets as prominent features.

Who needs to know that the last time you saw your neighbour was in the back of a police car or that you only communicate with them via a solicitor? Buyers do, that’s who. Potential purchasers have a right to know whether they’ll inherit a long-running feud or if they’ll be disturbed on a regular basis if they buy your property.

Did you know gardening – or a lack of it – is one of the top five reasons a landlord will make a deposit deduction, according to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme? Just as structural or cosmetic damage inside a buy-to-let can devalue a property, a neglected garden can knock thousands off a home’s value and cost vast sums to put right.  

There was a lot of news to digest in May, with political announcements, a drop in inflation and a base rate on hold once again. Therefore you may have missed some of last month’s important home moving analysis. Here are 11 things we learnt about the property market in May.

Viewing a property is one of the most exciting steps when moving home. There’s a sense of anticipation and also optimism that this ‘could be the one’. Paying close attention and asking the right questions is just as important when touring a rental property as it is one you might want to buy.