What can be done by way of improvements / modernisation / upgrading to the latest property regulations, and decor, progressed by private investors to ex-local authority properties was outlined in an article in a national newspaper last weekend (Sunday 28th February). The national Sunday newspaper article concerned highlighted what had been achieved in the Midlands.

Ex-local authority houses usually have a lot going for them in that more often than not they are located in an area which has easy access to local amenities :- shops, doctors, dentists, buses, and schools.

Such ex-local authority properties are also usually well built, have reasonably large sized rooms, have been maintained well by the local authority concerned. They also often have a good sized garden with space to have a shed or other outbuildings. Some of these properties can be adapted so that off road parking can be provided, if not already provided.

After the builder has done the necessary work it can be hard to imagine what the house looked like originally, but builders can make such properties into lovely modern homes.