What a start to the year!

Top flight interior designer Nichola Haysey of Haysey Designs is with us to pick over the techniques, fabrics and styles she's seeing as on trend for 2025.

Have you got your sconces yet?!

Question for you : if you never saw a For Sale board again, would it bother you? More to the point, would it bother Simmo?

Discover which council thinks there are too many of them and whether they'll disappear for good?

Is it too early to call this a board crisis?

The erudite voice of eloquence Charlie Lamdin delivers another Charlie Says and this time, his crosshairs are trained on the introducers and middle men of conveyancing.

You can also check out the latest report on the kinds of smells that can help to sell a house. NO, it's not freshly baked bread anymore - we've moved on from that!

There's also Selling Somerset which is, shall we say, quite fowl!