How to Buy Your Home and Save Money: Use Insider Knowledge to Cut Costs and Avoid Expensive Mistakes

This book gives home buyers the knowledge they need to buy a home, and do it right. It covers all areas of the purchase process, whether you are buying for the first time or want to improve on your last experience.

Buying property is an expensive business. Apart from the price of the property itself, there are costs and fees every step of the way. But some of these can be avoided or significantly reduced - if you know how.

How to negotiate the offer
Finding a value mortgage
Using the survey results
Includes leasehold, new build, auctions and joint purchase
Explains the costs and fees, and how to reduce them;
Advice on handling the paperwork
Includes really useful Money Saving Tips

From finding the right property to arranging the funding and completing your purchase, this book will guide you along the way and save you money.

Author Susie Heal has moved all over the country, buying and selling property along the way, and has learned from experience how to identify potential problems and avoid them. She has written two books on buying and selling property Buying Your Home (Harper Collins 1996) and Selling Your Home (HarperCollins 1995) and this new book takes into account the many changes that have happened in the property market since then. Susie has also run a letting agency and worked in conveyancing for more than ten years.