You've retired or taken your foot off the gas. A little bit, at least. Your kids have grown up and moved out. They're starting to build their own lives with careers, homes, and families of their own. And you've been keeping on top of this big house for years now. It's time for a downsize.

Whenever you talk to anyone about moving house, you'll almost always be met by a dramatic sigh and a sense of general despair. Moving house can be so stressful. An emotional rollercoaster. It almost puts you off moving altogether!

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You've done the viewing and fallen in love with the property. You've weighed up all of the pros and cons, and after sleeping on it, finally decided to put in an offer. So, you mentally run through the phone call to the agents and how you think it'll go. And then, nervously, you make the call. But, it doesn't go quite as you'd planned. So, how can you make the most of the offering experience to ensure that your offers are taken seriously and, more importantly, get accepted!

As a tenant, you're always acutely aware that the property you live in doesn't actually belong to you. You're told not to hang pictures. Not to redecorate. So, when there are problems with the property, you'll call the landlord and let them know. This is their responsibility to sort out, not yours, as it's their property, right? But what should you be doing yourself as the tenant?

When looking to buy a property, you'll notice that estate agents use various terminology and jargon when listing the marketing price. What do they even mean? And how do these different phrases affect you when you're making offers?

Dreamy summer afternoons spent meandering through fields. Picnics of sandwiches made from freshly baked bread and homemade lemonade, eaten leisurely beside a babbling brook.

The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement encapsulates all that is legally binding between you as a landlord and your tenant(s). It’s the most important document that you sign in respect of that relationship. And like many detailed legal documents, there is a high probability that you skim read it, if you read it all, before you signed it.

Every day there are people retiring from work and looking forward to a relaxed future full of travel and days out. Some of them have been landlords with a single, or multiple, private rented properties who are capitalising on the sale of their asset or simply years of accumulated rental income.

When you take the brave plunge to buy an investment property it can be a little overwhelming. If you then seek out a lettings agent to help ease that burden, you want to know that they are truly an expert in their field and up to date with every piece of legislation.

Private residential landlords have been increasingly pounded by regulations and tax changes. Without counting (because frankly we have better things to do and it is hard to keep up), there are over 170 regulations governing management of your rental property. And the average fine for breaching a regulation is over £12k.