When buying a property, almost all people make the utmost effort to try and find out everything about the property before they buy.

Why? Because they have never spent such a large amount of money and have never made such a big decision previously in their lives.

Many people make a lot of trips to far distance properties on the other side of the country and wast a lot of time doing this. But as we now come into the year 2010, more technology is available at our hands and with the introduction of Google Street View in most if the UK, you can view a property without even setting foot outside your own home!

Many people go in the route of buying an existing house from another owner in a location which they find good. But the question here today is that is it worth just buying a house or building one from scratch?

Of course building one from scratch is going to be more expensive due to obvious reasons such as buying the land, getting it registered, hiring all the different companies and staff for a long period, buying all the bricks, drawing the plans etc.

If you find the perfect land and location then people may find it better to build a house.

There seems to be a modern trend that’s growing very rapidly. More and more people are moving away from the traditional home and moving into their own flats.

There are many reasons for this and why this trend is becoming more and more popular (especially in the United Kingdom) such as:

• Flats are cheaper
• Lots of people enjoy University life a lot and once they leave university, they want to go back into a similar environment, so they choose flats.
• Some people want to live close to the city center and flats can be found in the middle of the center of the city.

So what are your thoughts?

Google has for some time now gone into the property business and allowed people to upload their houses and businesses for sale and for rent on Google services which then links to Google Maps.

Do you think this is a good idea?

It has its pros and cons.

In the end of the day, I’m sure most people, no matter how technologically advance they may be, would prefer to go and visit a house and a business location when spending a very large amount of money.

But then again, that’s my opinion. What is your opinion on this feature of Google?

This is a big questions amongst people abroad that why on Earth would people from the western countries such as the UK and Europe want to build and buy houses in other countries such as Dubai and China?

It is mostly those people who haven’t lived or know much about the UK.

Living in the UK is becoming more and more difficult according to most people. Why is this? Prices are going up, things are becoming more expensive. There are lots of taxes to pay. unemployment figures are high and so on.

But to those living in the UK. Is this really true?