The Street-wise Guide to Buying, Improving and Selling Your Home

by Georgina Burnett

Overview

This book is for anyone anyone buying, letting, improving or selling their home. It will enable you to be Street-wise in the biggest investment you are probably ever going to make! Georgina Burnett, the fully-independent and nationally known Home Genie draws on her extensive experience of having rented, bought, renovated and sold properties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911454021
Publisher:	Edward Everett Root
Publication date:	04/22/2019
Series:	Street-Wise Guides
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.58(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Georgina Burnett is a BBC presenter, popular property and DIY interiors vlogger, writer and property developer. She is best known as the popular presenter of The Home Genie. She is also a regular freelance presenter and reporter for BBC News and Weather. You can often hear Georgina on BBC radio and chatting about property and DIY decor with Martin Roberts on Talk Radio. When Georgina's not presenting she's getting her hands dirty renovating her own properties.

Table of Contents

The author ix

Thank yous! x

Introduction xi

Part 1 Buying Your Home

Chapter 1 Why and when to buy 1

Chapter 2 Preparing to Buy 9

Chapter 3 Getting a mortgage 19

Chapter 4 What type of property and where? 27

Chapter 5 How to find a property 37

Chapter 6 Bagging a bargain 27

Chapter 7 Savvy house hunting 53

Chapter 8 Making an offer to moving in 65

Part 2 Improving Your Home

Chapter 9 Planning home improvements 85

Chapter 10 Structural improvements 93

Chapter 11 Getting the work done 101

Chapter 12 Making improvements 113

Chapter 13 Decorating and interiors 141

Chapter 14 Other improvements 173

Part 3 Selling Your Home

Chapter 15 Preparing to sell your home 179

Chapter 16 Getting the place sold quickly 187

Chapter 17 Accepting an offer to moving day 191

About the author 197