The Melanie Estates Blog

Following the release of Hometrack's June House Price Index we wanted to share the highlights and key points to make it easier to digest. Despite the disappointing news that 124,000 sales, worth £27bn, have been...

Top tips for home design from Melanie Estates, your local property adviser Our home is a place where we should feel safe and able to relax. As we’ve been confined to our properties for such a long time in...

Working from home is something that many of us have been very accostomed to over the last few months. In fact, during lockdown it was reported that 60% of the UK workforce were working from home. With the average...

As restaurants, pubs, cafes, and hairdressers have now been open for a few weeks, it has been interesting to watch how this increase in highstreet footfall has affected the housing market. PwC reports on money in...

Life is a relentless stream of decisions. What to wear? What to have for breakfast? Where to go on holiday? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Some are trivial choices. Some are life-changing ones. And deciding to...

When does doing up your home end up doing yourself out of money?It’s not the opening to a poor joke but a serious question we thought we’d answer for homeowners in Norfolk. Not all home improvements add value...

We all know that the pandemic has affected most things in life, the property market included, but did you know that it has also directly influenced a change in home-buyer requirements? Having spent a lot (and we...

Considering shops can begin to open on June 15th, this may be one of our last posts. We should all continue to support small, local businesses as much as possible over the coming months (and always!). The next...

You wouldn’t set off on a road trip without a map. So why start the next stage of your life’s journey without the homebuyer’s equivalent?  Let’s talk floorplans.  It’s no secret that floorplans have...

Week 6 of our blog series supporting local businesses and we're beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, there are still a lot of restrictions in place, and for good reason, but shops, cafés, and...