How to Buy at an Auction
In this article we explain the tactics of the auction room as well as what to do if you’re successful

Building in a Flood Zone
A home in a flood zone needs to be designed differently. Here we tell you how

Where to Live Whilst Self-building
Many self-builders live for months or even years in a mobile home. But is this necessary?

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How to Build Quality into Your Home Can you build ‘quality’ into your project? There are two ways of answering this question. The obvious one is to specify lots of expensive materials; but the other side of the quality issue – and the one we seek to address here – concerns standards.
Starting Out: Taking Stock There is room for all different approaches and the downturn in the property market is throwing up more opportunities than at any other time in the past 20 years. But still there will be many people who never get past the dreaming stage
Starting Out: The Practicalities of Self-building Self-building is all about choice and one of the key decisions to make – which ties in with how you are going to finance the project – is where you’re going to live whilst building
The 12 Steps of Self Build: Starting Out A lot has changed in the self-build world over the past ten years. Housebuilding has grown more complex — not only are there far more products on the market, but we have also been inundated with new legislation and tighter regulation
Advice for the First Time Self-Builder We asked the UK’s most experienced self-builder, David Snell, what advice he would give if he could have ten minutes with the least-experienced first-time would-be self-builder