By Ellis Ranger

Moving house is something we will all go through at some point. Whether you’re 18 or 50, the eventuality will come where you are left to your own devices, with your sofa wedged into your front door frame and your heating is pumping out at 40 degrees and you just don’t know how to turn it down. 

As much as you might think yourself silly for not understanding what seem such menial tasks, like your family and friends before you, everyone has to tackle these rookie errors and emerge victorious.

By Ellis Ranger

Starting your first year as a student is always the most daunting. From getting your initial offer to moving into your first student halls, there is a lot that needs to be done to ensure that this all goes smoothly.

University not only lets you take the necessary steps into studying for what you aspire to have a career in, but also it teaches you a lot of valuable life lessons and helps develop you into an adult. 

By Ellis Ranger

Over the last 18 months, the pandemic has run riot, leaving us locked inside our homes through multiple lockdowns. But will house prices go down now we’re living in a more familiar way of life?

During these strange and uncertain times, people in the UK began to think about what they wanted in a home. Did they want to upsize, downsize or move from a busy city centre to a home by the coast? Or did they simply want to leave the past behind to start a new beginning?

CBS Sounds Episode 2 explores the property market. Expert Paul Blake is our guest and we find out answers to all-important questions and get his predictions for what lies ahead between now and the end of the year.

Plus, we look at the well-documented stamp duty holiday and why some canny buyers got even more out of it. And what does the typical day in the life of an estate agent look like 18 months on from the first lockdown?

Moving jobs are unavoidable. Whether it’s tasks we have to do before we move in or afterwards, our lists will be as long as our arms. Some of these jobs are not especially glamorous, but they have to be done.

And knowing we’ll be able to kick back and relax afterwards should make it all worth it. A recent survey published by the broadband supplier Hyperoptic asked 2,000 people which moving jobs they hate the most. 

Many of us will have to make our budget stretch further even though we’re arguably living a more familiar way of life. But at a time where borrowing has been astronomical and businesses have had mixed fortunes, who has a spare £250,000 to spend?

Earlier this summer, we asked an expert to break down the ‘new’ stamp duty holiday. Under this tax break, existing homeowners can buy a new home worth up to £250,000 without paying stamp duty. 

When we think about leafy suburbs, we probably visualise pleasant areas on the outskirts of cities and large towns. Properties in a leafy suburb are not only cheaper to buy or rent, they’re also in pretty locations. So what’s not to like?

But lush greenery will one day come as standard in the same way kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms do. Why? The government have outlined a new national model design code. The idea behind the guidelines is to create a higher standard of new build homes.

The introduction of so-called vaccine passports for nightclubs has caused the government and hospitality bosses to come to blows. From September, people will have to prove that they have been double jabbed or they will be refused entry.

But the proposals are not yet written into law as they have to be voted on in parliament first. But both Labour and rebel Conservative MPs say they’re firmly against them. So-called Freedom Day only took place a few days ago, but the possible enforcement of Covid vaccine passports has caused uproar.