When the owner of a house in the bosky lanes of Weybridge, Surrey, recently discovered its value had dropped to £1.75m from the £2m he paid a few years ago, he decided to shelve any plans to move. Instead, he took advantage of an attractive remortgage deal, refinanced at a lower rate and used the extra borrowing to improve and extend the home.

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