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	<title>Phil Spencer &#124; The Property Expert</title>
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		<title>How to Buy Your First Home</title>
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In How to Buy Your First Home, property expert Phil Spencer takes the worry out of the property market. Breaking everything down into simple and achievable steps, he makes this daunting process easy. Learn how to:
- Find your perfect pad
- Get a mortgage that’s right for you
- Negotiate with estate agents and sellers
- Organise exchange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2011/04/how-to-buy-your-first-home/</link>
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		<title>Phil&#8217;s Trade Secret: Selling Your Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is no exterior picture of a house for sale on its brochure or on the website, it could mean there is something wrong with it. Sometimes you are shown the back view of the outside of the house rather than the front – in which case, perhaps the owner is hiding a fl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/08/phils-trade-secret-selling-your-property/</link>
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		<title>Phil&#8217;s trade secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trick with any improvement is to make it suit the property. The price bracket of fi xtures and fi ttings must match the price bracket of the property. If you are living in a modest, twobedroom terrace in the lower-to-middle end of the market, there is no point installing posh brand-name taps in bathrooms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/07/phils-trade-secret/</link>
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		<title>Submit Your Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you got any before and after projects that you want to share? Anything that you want to get feedback on? Send your photos to philspencer@eburypublishing.co.uk and your development project might feature on the website soon!
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		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/your-photos/</link>
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		<title>A new extension</title>
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The house was bought in 1999 and we added an extension on the back of the house in 2009, creating a new downstairs shower and an open plan kitchen. We also re landscaped the garden completely.


- Justin
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		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/a-new-extension/</link>
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		<title>Kitchen Remodelling</title>
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The original kitchen was fitted in 1961 – we found the receipt when we dismantled it!
The kitchen used to be L shaped with a lobby, we had the lobby knocked down new RSJ’s fitted, the front wall removed and replaced with opening glass doors the left wall rebuilt, a new concrete floor poured, new wiring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/kitchen-remodelling/</link>
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		<title>Maintaining your home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing people do not want to see is a home that isn’t well maintained. Ongoing upkeep is more crucial than ever, with buyers reluctant to sign up for an untended property that will prove costly to patch up. Properties that have fallen into disrepair might be sellable in boom years, but in cash-strapped times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/maintaining-your-home/</link>
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		<title>Phil Spencer is now on Twitter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can follow all of his tweets at www.twitter.com/pipoffthetv
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		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/phil-spencer-is-now-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Bring Hollywood to Your Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last week of Find a Property&#8217;s serialisation of Phil’s new book, Adding Value to Your Home, Phil reveals an alternative way to not only add value but also make an income from your home.
Read the full article
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		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/bring-hollywood-to-your-home/</link>
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		<title>Case Study: Adding Rooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a Cotswold farmhouse wouldn’t sell, the owners found out why and made some changes. About 18 months ago, the Hollands put their 3,000-squarefoot (279-square-metre) fi ve-bedroom farmhouse on the market at £1.25 million. Along with a three-bedroom cottage and four acres of paddock and garden, you would think the house would shift quickly.
However, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philspencer.tv/index.php/2010/05/case-study-adding-rooms/</link>
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