SelfBuild & Design Magazine

It’s a project I’ve long considered and often postponed, partly because other home extensions seemed so much sexier. The loft conversion promising fabulous horizon views, the rear extension creating an estate agent-friendly open-plan kitchen/family space. And the basement swimming pool beneath the garden providing regular healthy exercise while leaving the lawn intact.

I should add that - for excellent financial reasons - none of these, especially the latter, actually happened. But the long postponed project is about to, mainly because it’s one of the cheapest and easiest of renovation projects. I’m talking, of course, about an integral garage conversion. ...

The building blocks of a self-build revolution

Andrew Baddeley-Chappell explores the Government’s Action Plan designed to encourage more people to get building.

Regular readers may recall I recently reflected on the important announcements made by the government in support of the custom- and self-build sector at the end of 2020. ...

Modest fallback in house prices

Annual house price growth slowed to 10.5 per cent in July, from the 17-year high of 13.4 per cent recorded the previous month. In month-on-month terms, house prices fell by 0.5 per cent, after taking account of seasonal effects, following a 0.7 per cent rise in June....