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Trying to sell your house is an increasingly cut-throat business. So if you want to sell fast, you need to make your property irresistible. Forget full-scale renovations; make some vital improvements in just 24 hours. Estate agents currently have an average of 322 buyers on their books and an average of 68 houses available for sale. The odds may be in your favour but shifting homes is taking longer, an average of 17.7 weeks between instruction and exchange of contracts. And no-one wants to languish on the market for months and miss out on a potential purchase. Try these tricks to speed things up. ... Read Full Story

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The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is putting pressure on the Government to further delay full rollout of Home Information Packs (HIPS). They claim that the introduction of HIPS has reduced the number of larger homes being marketed as speculative sellers are put off by the cost of the HIP. They also expect the number of smaller homes being marketed when HIPS are fully rolled out to be affected in the same way, which the Institute fears will make it even more difficult for first time buyers to get on the housing ladder. The Association of Home Information Packs providers responded to the allegations ... Read Full Story