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With Rightmove announcing a national drop of 0.3% in average asking prices in August, some are asking if the steam has been let out of the property market. Yet with the gains, we have seen in the last 12 months, is this just a minor bump in the road? Alarm bells normally ring when new …

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The semi-detached house – the icon of middle-class aspiration, the pinnacle of liberalism yet at the same time compromised individuality, the ‘semi’ as it is colloquially termed is, for many Hastings homeowners, the highpoint of modern domestic bliss. Britain’s gift to architecture is the humble ‘Semi-Detached House’. This type of property has been exported around …

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We know of many Hastings buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Hastings housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They thought they would keep their Hastings family home in case they ever …

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After over a year in lockdown, the way many of us live and work has changed drastically. With a change in lifestyle has come a change in needs, especially when it comes to where we spend most of our time – our homes. Before you make a checklist of must-haves for your new home and …

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