In this week’s community interest article, we’re celebrating Scrabble with some interesting facts about how it began and the highest-scoring words.

Can you make a house move less stressful? In this week’s sales piece, we offer some helpful tips to reduce the stress of moving by planning ahead and avoiding last-minute panic.

Are you a tenant? In this week’s lettings article, we go through ways tenants can clear out their rental at the end of a tenancy to help avoid deposit disputes.

In this 2 minute read, we take a look over the local property market and give you an insight into how property is performing in the Haydock and Newton area.

If you’re looking for ways to keep your children entertained this Easter, here are some fun activities that won’t break the bank.

Being a landlord is one of those jobs where there’s no middle ground. It’s either low stress with great tenants and affordable mortgage rates, or it’s the total opposite: high stress, broken appliances, tenancy challenges and ever-increasing costs.

So, you’re selling up and don’t know whether to instruct a traditional estate agent or a DIY fixed-fee agency. Let’s look at the pros and cons of both options.

Older tenants are a growing force in the private rental sector, so is it time for savvy landlords to proactively target this demographic?

It’s every seller’s worst nightmare. You’re on the cusp of finalising the sale of your property when your buyer gets cold feet and runs for the hills.

With mortgage rates tripling over the last 12 months, one could be forgiven for thinking buying a Haydock home as a first-time buyer would out of the question.

When marketing a property for sale, the key is ensuring it reaches a broader audience to find the perfect buyer. The ideal solution is for the exposure of your property marketing to be comprehensive and wide enough to ensure that the maximum number of potential buyers can be found, resulting in a higher level of demand and, therefore, a higher value. This will lead to more viewings, offers, and higher sale prices - what every seller seeks.

Most of us do not think about our credit scores too often. We happily meander through life without giving it a second thought until we make a large purchase. Something that means we need to apply for finance of some kind, and it slowly dawns on us that we really should know our credit score. Whether it's for a credit card, car finance, or a mortgage, it all rests on that little credit score that you have, until this point, completely ignored.