Low ceilings = flush lights. Before you purchase carpet get 5 or 6 agents round to value. Ask each for their opinion on what they think will appeal best. Ask them if you could get away with just laying underlay. For the wow factor make sure your budget is spent on items that you can take with you - think a huge 6fx3ft mirror, a bright modern art print, a mirrored console table etc. No need to splash out much just one item in a room or two to indicate wow. A patio table and chairs in the garden are also needed for the selling photos as they will help the buyer to see scale and the garden will appear more homely. A bowl of fruit in a chrome wire bowl in the kitchen will also add wow - stage with green apples and yellow lemons for example. So, to sum up the spend on 'wow' should be limited and only to what you take with you. As for the estate agents some of them do try very hard to give good sales advice so when you book them to value explain that the property is being flipped and you would welcome any ideas on how to present it. You may be surprised at what they suggest.

If you have lived in England...with washing machine in the kitchen as a normal everyday thing, then I don't think people mind, they probably LOVE having a laundry ! Our front door is basically the laundry sliding door, so I'm putting our laundry into a cupboard so it's hidden, I think it put people off buying the house...entering via laundry. (10 weeks on market, we were the only offer) A pantry ' in a laundry' or vice versa doesn't worry me. My last laundry was in the garage. And big sep pantry in kitchen, I would rather a pantry with machine..than no pantry. A pantry to me is big kudos

Hi , There are three factors that will increase your square meter rate. Earthworks , Design and fittings choice. Some companies will allow for a PC Sum in earthworks which doesn't reflect the total cost. This in itself can make one quote higher than the other. If you have any questions contact me.

Hi, we are currently trying to sell our house that has had a room built that is not on LIM/drawings etc (we were aware of tis when we purchased the house 5 years ago). We had one potential sale fall through due to banks not wanting to lend due to this room, so we contacted a house inspection company who said we needed a 3rd party report and have it added to our property record. We went ahead with this and the report found that "this alteration work predated the implementation the 1991 Building Act and therefore a Third-Party Report (or old Safe & Sanitary report) is sufficient to deal with this unrecorded building work. " and the work done is "safe and sanitary". The also updated the drawings to include the modifications. Thinking we had solved the issue we have just had another bank reject lending due to this room. The council also attached a letter to our property record stating "Council is not obliged to hold such information on file but if it does so, you should be aware that Council’s actions in no way authorise, or give approval of, the work undertaken without consents under the Building Act 2004 or preceding regulation. Furthermore, Council has not inspected any of the work that is described in your application." Which makes it sound like the report is worthless. Does anyone have any insight into what we can do to resolve this issue? Cheers