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SHADOW Sell your property for £899!


templewicks are proud to introduce ‘Shadow’, our uniquely ‘alternative’ way of selling a property, all for £899 inclusive of VAT. Contact us to arrange your sale.


Station Road, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9QH Telephone: 01502 716 300 Email: beccles@templewicks.co.uk Website: www.templewicks.co.uk


Beccles Society Of Artists


BECCLES Society of artists meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm at the Waveney Centre, Beccles for talks and demonstrations by pro- fessional artists or other experts in art, with our popular annual


exhibition being held each august. Entry to the demonstra- tion is free for members and £3 for visitors – everybody wel- come! The meeting on Wednesday 4th July is a demo on seascapes


in acrylics by Saa artist denise allen. denise has been painting professionally since the early 1980’s, and says ‘I will never tire of painting the sea, and I am completely fascinated by the ever-changing surface of the


water. I aim to create truly beau- tiful, realistic paintings.’ Information about the Society,


its events, and how to join can be found at www.becclesartists. co.uk or by emailing beccle- sartists@hotmail.com


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Win a pair of weekend tickets to Latitude!


The Community News are delighted to announce that we will be running our annual competition to win a pair weekend tickets to Latitude 2018.


We like to keep things simple here at


the Community News, so rather than a tricky question we simply ask you to go to the competition feature on the spotlight section of our website and tell us why you want to go to this year’s festival. The draw is random, so the story is just for fun! Whilst you are there why not like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter that way


you’ll be among the first to know as and when we have future competitions and special offers.


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To Rent or To Buy?


WITHIN the next 4 years the government apparently wants us to be building 300,000 new homes per year. There is however no statistical evidence to prove that this will result in greater home ownership, as more and more people decide to rent. Private renting has double in the past 10 or so years to just under 5 million homes and the private rented sector continues to expand. One of the problems for first time buyers is that tighter lending controls dictate that you must prove you can repay 46% more on a mortgage than you do on your rent. I can foresee more problems when next year new legislation will arrive to ban landlords and letting agents from charging general fees to tenants. This in turn will inevitably push rents upwards making that 46% even harder to achieve. generation Rent is clearly here to stay.


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We here at Templewicks


typically now hear from people who now really have no desire to own their own home. This seems particularly common the older we get, when you don't want the worry of fixing the windows, replacing the boiler or painting the house. Spend the money on cruises, that's my advice! Buying a house is no straight


forward task either. do you realise that it now takes an average of about 3 ½ months from an offer being accepted to exchanging contracts, and a lot can go wrong in that time. The average “chain” consists of 3 separate property transactions and often quite longer. It only takes one of the sales to fall through and the whole chain can come tumbling down and this is extremely frustrating for everyone involved. apparently around 300,000 sales now fall through each year and you


cannot get back the money you laid out for legal fees and surveys. So, do take care when buying and get the agent to check the strength of the other deals that could ultimately affect whether you get that dream home you have set your heart on. and if you are selling don't


forget that buyers decide in the first 8 seconds if they're interested. So walk down the road and back to yours to see what they see in those 8 seconds. Then change what you don't like.


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