One of the best ways to shift your house quickly in a competitive market is to offer something unique that the buyer will not be able to get elsewhere. In the housing market this is normally a picturesque view or a proximity to local amenities, but these are linked to location and cannot be manufactured on demand for a property that lacks them. However, with squeezed holiday budgets combining with increasingly wet summers, home buyers in the UK are now becoming more appreciative of properties that they can enjoy all year round.

One of the easiest ways of making your house a home for all seasons, and therefore tap in to this recent trend, is to install a conservatory. Although the boom in budget conservatories during the 90s left many with a bad taste of glossy white PVC and poor draft exclusion in their mouths, there have always been firms capable of designing and building quality conservatories that add to both the aesthetic and functional qualities of the parent building.

Although these more elegant, traditional style summer houses are often more expensive than their identikit cousins, you stand much more chance of preserving the charm of your property by investing in something more sympathetic to the local Shropshire countryside and architecture. After all, on the odd day of the year that it stays dry enough to get out and actually enjoy the garden, the last thing anyone wants is their own private eyesore spoiling it!