Viewing properties – in the palm of your hand

Remember the old days where you would have to look in the Estate Agents windows to see how much your neighbour’s house was on sale for? As the digital world has evolved to browsing websites for houses Rightmove have now rolled out a new, free app which allows you to have quick access to properties on sale at your fingertips. If you have a smart phone or tablet, the app allows you to see listed properties with easy access to information including internal photographs and floor plans. What could be better than being able to keep up to date with the houses on your street or even scroll for that ‘lottery win’ house you’ve always dreamed of. And as property renovation programmes can be found in abundance on TVs in the UK, it certainly shows that we are a nation of home obsessives, even if it’s not our own.

When buying or selling your property, you may need a Structural Engineers Report and we find online resources are useful tools for our structural engineers to discover information in relation to a property such as, extensions, local vegetation around the house or even historic issues captured by Google.