Everyone wants to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It is a completely understandable instinct. It is also, in practice, almost impossible to do, and the attempt to do it costs a lot of investors dearly.

You've found a home you love. Now what? Making an offer can feel nerve-wracking : especially for the first time. Here's exactly what to do and what to expect once you've taken the plunge.

Choosing an estate agent is one of those decisions that is hard to evaluate properly until you are already in the middle of the process. You can read reviews, ask for recommendations, and sit through valuations, but you only really find out what working with someone is like once your home is on the market and the weeks start ticking by.

Conveyancing. It's one of those words that gets thrown around a lot when you're buying a home, but not many people actually know what it means. In short: it's the legal process of transferring ownership of a property from one person to another. Here's what actually happens.