1. First Home Buyers Guide - Part One. Advice on what to do before your start looking to buy your first home.

Exciting stuff – you're shaping up to purchase your first home! This guidance note is designed to help you get ready to make the offer that might get you on that first step of the property ownership ladder. There is a bit of work that goes into the 'getting ready' phase, as well as several things that you should have a think about before you are locked into a contract, that we'll set out below.

2. First Home Buyers Guide - Part Two. What happens now you have a contract to buy a house signed up?

In a way, you have done the hard part: found a house you can afford, and got it under contract. Well done. This guide takes you through the process from here - what we will do for you, and what stuff you need to get covered off. It's all pretty simple, but can still be stressful especially if you have not done it before. This guide is here to try and help you with the run in to getting the keys. But its also here to make it the easy and enjoyable process that it should be.

3. Building Agreements - Contracting for the build of your first home or your Grand Design.

You have bought your section, or have it under contract. Now it's time to sign a Building Agreement. These often seem like long, unfamiliar, complex documents. However, which ever builder you are planning to work with, the way they work is generally going to be more or less the same. It's therefore usually pretty easy for us to be able to give advice on your proposed Building Agreement. But in the mean time, this Guidance Note will highlight the key things for you to be aware of as you start what should be an exciting, and likely challenging, process.

4. Ownership of Land (and other assets) with others - Should we be "joint tenants" or "tenants in common"?

This Guidance Note will be particularly useful if you are about to go into joint owner of land with someone else. It will also be very relevant if you are considering revising or making a Will. When you buy land with someone else, you will always have a decision to make: own as joint tenants or tenants in common? You will have to choose which one. This Guidance Note will help make sure that you have a good understanding of the implications that will flow from which option you select.

5. Property Sharing Agreements - Owning a property with family or friends.

You are planning to, or already have, purchased a property with family or friends. This Guidance Note takes you through the things that you should be thinking about, being mainly: should we enter into a Property Sharing Agreement? These agreements are simple to put together, but important and can be super valuable in a situation where the co-owners have differing views and expectations. Ideally you want the co-ownership to be a productive experience. But more than that, it would be great if family can remain family, and friends still be friends at the end of the joint enterprise.

6. Selling Your Home Privately - Steps to take and things to consider when you have decided to try and sell your property without an agent.

Our experience is that when people have sold a property privately once, they tend to keep doing it. That suggests for most it is an easy and rewarding experience that delivers an outcome with which they are happy. This Guidance Note is designed to give you the confidence to get started if you are contemplating having a go at selling privately for the first time. It outlines the things you will need to think about, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of selling your house this way.