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How to Buy Your First Home (And How to Sell it Too)
How to Buy Your First Home (And How to Sell it Too)
Sep 30, 2024 9:25 AM

Author:Phil Spencer

How to Buy Your First Home (And How to Sell it Too)

Phil Spencer, property expert and co-presenter of hit series Location, Location, Location, provides everything you need to know to help you buy (and sell) your first home

Want to own your own home, but not sure where to start? Need some friendly advice from a property professional?

In How to Buy Your First Home, property expert Phil Spencer takes the worry out of the property market. Breaking everything down into simple and achievable steps, he makes this daunting process easy. Learn how to:

- Find your perfect pad

- Choose which mortgage is right for you

- Negotiate with estate agents and sellers

- Organise exchange and completion

Including indispensable advice, money-saving tips and an essential trouble-shooting section, this guide covers everything a first-time buyer needs to know. And when it's time to move on again, this book will show you how to sell your home too.

Phil Spencer is one the best-known faces on British television, co-presenting the hit Channel 4 series Location, Location, Location and Relocation, Relocation. Phil has written regularly columns in The Sunday Times and Country Life, and is contracted to Archant publishing to write columns that are syndicated in the group's numerous local glossy magazines which are distributed nationwide. Recent TV appearances include on The One Show, Children in Need and The Friday Night Project, and Phil also regularly appears on the radio to discuss property issues.

Reviews

Phil Spencer is a genuine property expert. You can trust his advice

—— Anne Cuthbertson , The Sunday Telegraph

Property guru

—— Telegraph

Chic, charming, stylish

—— Red

Bea Johnson is a guru of zero-waste living. The book is precise . . . simple yet deep. It doesn't preach.

—— Sunday Times

The priestess of waste-free living

—— The New York Times

Good housekeeping - Baking queen Mary Berry steps out of the kitchen and offers a recipe for home happiness

—— Edinburgh Evening News

Genius

—— Lovin.ie

Gathered here is the Cork-born Londoner’s fund of home improvement tips and hacks along with a slick visual look by the sometimes-illustrator’s own hand

—— Irish Independent

The thinking woman’s Instagram go-to for essential tips on all sorts of useful home advice, Laura De Barra’s taught us more than we ever knew we needed to know about how to properly clean a dishwasher filter, fix a faulty window lock and get stubborn marks off bathroom tiles. Hint: they’ll come off. They always come off.

—— Houseandhome.ie

Who knew that watching someone descale a dishwasher could be compelling viewing?

—— Image

Accompanied by Laura's beautiful illustrations and her resident humour, it's a useful handbook to get you through any household emergency

—— Image Interiors & Living

A fluent and authoritative account of Europe since the Second World War

—— Literary Review

An insightful analysis of the transformation of central and eastern Europe in the decades between the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

—— Guardian

Garton Ash is a clear-headed chronicler of the Continent [and] Homelands is an engaging read

—— Irish Times

An authoritative big picture well matched with revealing, important human details

—— The Tablet

Timothy Garton Ash tells the epic story of ... [postwar] Europe

—— Irish Times

Excellent ... Read as a letter, such gemlike vignettes can be treasured. Because in them, Garton Ash has captured something of what it means to be European. Though he is proudly in love with Europe, he is not blind to its faults

—— Washington Examiner

Part memoir, part history and is fascinating, rich in anecdote, and at times intensely moving

—— The Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

A panoramic contemporary history of Europe, in which sharp political analysis is enlivened with personal memoir — drawn from decades of distinguished work as a journalist and academic

—— Financial Times, *Books of the Year*
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