What red flags do you need to spot before you buy a home - and how do you find them?

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How long did you take looking round your home before you put an offer in for it? The average prospective buyer spends just 43 minutes.

Surprise, surprise, research suggests that it pays to take your time.

This is week, Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce talk about what should be on your checklist before you take the plunge and buy a property.

Should you go by vibes alone, or do you really need to kick the tyres?

And when you do buy, what happens if the seller leaves junk like a mouldy fridge, grimy washing machine and a stained sofa? We reveal all.

Buy-to-let has taken a battering in recent years – but there are still pockets of Britain where investors are finding a decent yield.

Cash Isas are back in the spotlight with a review likely to come in July – how likely is it that they will be tinkered with?

And with news defunct furniture brand MFI will return after 20 years, what stores would you like to see make a comeback?

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money Podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce. And coming up, buying a home, we outline the red flags you need to look out for when viewing a property. Plus, we take a look at the UK hotspots where landlords are still investing. The hotly anticipated cash ice a review gets underway in July, what is likely to be on the table.
0:27.0	And as a popular British furniture store that collapsed in 2008 returns to the High Street,
0:32.3	we want to know which store would you like to see make a comeback.
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1:14.8	Investment involves risk. But first, how long did you take looking round your home before you put an offer in for it?
1:23.3	Apparently, the average prospective buyer spends just 43 minutes. Surprise, surprise, research suggests
1:30.9	that it pays to take more than 43 minutes. Before we reveal the 10 issues, though, that most
1:37.4	of us forget to check when viewing a property and then later regret, I want to know, Simon
1:42.8	Lee, how long you spent viewing your property.
1:45.4	Now, Lee, though, I'll come to you first because way back when, when we were little podcasters,
1:52.2	you were telling a story of how either you were told to do this or your father-in-law told you to do
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