Using home equity to buy second home

JJ Barnes (pictured left), 35, was recently trying to edit a very exact piece of sound onto the film when her three children - two daughters aged eight and four, and a stepson aged seven - burst into a rendition of Disney movie Frozen's Let It Go at their home in Stafford, Staffordshire. Pictured with actress Virginia Hey (centre) and Ms Barnes' partner Jonathan McKinney (right) … [Read more...] about The home-schoolers juggling work AND teaching: From A&E doctor with seven-year-old daughter to mother-of-two executive who’s taken to mushroom foraging… the parents doing the ultimate lockdown balancing act

The extent of the divide is laid bare in a survey by the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, which found that 35 per cent of families are still lacking sufficient access to devices, compared with 11 per cent of high-income homes. … [Read more...] about Laptops given to vulnerable children for home-schooling during lockdown were infected with RUSSIAN computer virus – sparking urgent probe by ministers

'It honestly does help you budget. If we don't eat these meals in this order, we still have stuff to make it, even if that means we freeze the stuff at the end of the week. If I go to the shops and pork is on sale, I stock up on pork and put it in the freezer.' … [Read more...] about Professional cleaner shows the common mopping mistake that is making your home DIRTIER – so are you guilty?

“I lived in the house for three years just trying my best to bear it by painting walls ‘for now’, but after saving some money I was able to start renovations – starting with the kitchen wall knock-through, which was done by a professional weeks before lockdown. … [Read more...] about First-time buyer transforms ‘atrocious’ mouldy home into luxurious pad worth £220K

Issues: Cyber security specialist Emese Fajk, 28, (centre) was the mystery buyer who bought Jimmy and Tam's winning property during The Block's finale last month. Ms Fajk presented receipts of bank transfers indicating the money for the home had gone through, but the large sum never reached Channel Nine's bank accounts … [Read more...] about Inside The Block’s $4.2million home everyone in Australia is talking about – as Channel Nine scrambles to find a new buyer after mysterious ‘tech queen’ Emese Fajk failed to pay