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	What to do if my house isn't selling			What to do I can't find a house
	What if I want to buy, but can’t afford a property on my own?			What are my options if I can’t afford a rental deposit?
	How to avoid and deal with repossession			What happens and what are my rights with regards to property during a divorce?
	How to prevent and deal with a new build nightmare			What if I can't get my rental deposit back?
	Problems with tenants			Problems with landlords
	How to deal with a bad survey			Problems with property companies
	Help, my property has been down valued			What to do if you have, or think you have, subsidence
	How to deal with a home that has flooded			What to do if you have a leak in a property
	How to deal with damp			How to complain about a property company
	Complaining against individual bodies			Managing negative equity
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Recent articles

Are developers making large profits from the tax payer? Feb 13, 2019: On Monday I was interviewed by Winifred Robinson on BBC Radio 4 You and Yours programme about new build developers. Currently, they are making substantial profits, yet not delivering the 300,000 homes that the government wants built every year and, in some cases, the quality of new builds seems to be going down the pan. Bearing in mind that developers have been supported by tax payers' money since the 2013 Help to Buy Scheme, You and Yours were asking whether people were getting a good return or if developers needed to do better.

In some areas over 40% of people think they can afford to buy their first home on their own Feb 4, 2019: New research released by the Nottingham Building Society (The Nottingham) has revealed that first-time buyers in the East Midlands and Scotland are the most likely to buy alone when purchasing their first property.

Mortgage rejection? How can you make sure this doesn’t happen to you? Jan 28, 2019: New research from Which? Mortgage Advisers (Which?) has found that nearly 17% of mortgage holders responding to a survey has had a mortgage application rejected at some point or another.

Kate's comprehensive property price update for January 2019 - data from the UK house price index Jan 15, 2019: A new year is here and as far as ‘resolutions’ are concerned, it’s pretty impossible to work out what the industry can offer this year to prevent transactions and property prices stagnating even further...