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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2024 / ISSUE 109 / FIRSTTIMEBUYERMAG.CO.UK
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44 Finding Your Style Steve Hird, Director and Co-founder of Edward Thomas Interiors, breaks down some of the most popular interior styles and explains how to recreate them in different rooms.
66 Leading the Way
Abigail Tan is CEO of the St Giles Hotels Group in the UK, Europe and North America, but she is not your average hotelier, as her energy, passion and adventurous nature are what drives her, and she believes that hospitality has to be a way of life and not simply a job. Lynda Clark chats to her about her career, her plans for the future and her charity work.
HOMEPAGE 9 FTB Loves...
include remembering that your rst home doesn’t have to be perfect! 14 House Hunter We go on the hunt with Rebeckha and Ollie Woodhall who are relocating and looking for a home with two or more bedrooms with good links to Exeter. 16 Developer’s doctor Minnie Dando, Head of Marketing & Communications at Hyde New Homes answers your property question this issue.
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18 The View: Tayo and Antoinette Oguntonade Tayo and Antoinette Oguntonade run the highly successful BrickzWithTipz, an online digital platform which makes buying a home accessible to everyone. Tayo is also a podcaster and TV presenter and can be seen presenting Great House Giveaway on Channel 4. He is also an experienced mortgage broker, property expert and in uencer. Lynda Clark spoke to them to nd out how it all started, the rst
explores some small changes you can make to help your savings pot. 28 A Simple Guide to London Living Rent and Rent to Buy London Living Rent or Rent to Buy are excellent options to buy your rst home. Both schemes offer rst timers a home at below market rent which allows you to build up your savings and ultimately buy your home through shared ownership.
With Halloween on the horizon it’s time to celebrate all things spooky! Our round-up of some perfect accessories for the family to enjoy this fright night! 10 Living It’s time to put on your dancing shoes and razzle-dazzle with the help of these disco-themed accessories for around the home. 12 At home with: Clare Seal Clare is the creator of the @myfrugalyear Instagram account and is author of Real Life Money and Five Steps to Financial Wellbeing . She talks to Lynda Clark about her story and her future plans and puts her expertise as a nancial coach to use by giving her top three tips to help rst time buyers to take a rst step on to the housing ladder. These
property they bought and they give some great advice for rst time buyers. 22 Speed up your saving Trying to save for Speed up your
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a deposit is daunting but Debbie Clark
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