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Why Are British Houses So Small?

We build the tiniest new dwellings in Europe, and yet more storage and living space is what people desperately want. A report this week by Riba and Ipsos Mori found long and short term storage space for everyday functional items [...]

Young Home Ownership In Decline?

The ‘naive’ views of the baby boomer generation have cost our young people their future and a stable home Until around the year 2000, homeownership was increasing in the UK. Since then, most growth has been in rented accommodation, taking [...]

East Coast Beach For Sale

Never have to fight for towel space again… Snettisham Beach in Norfolk has been put on the market after being owned by the same family since 1868. Industrialist Edward Green bought the land for shooting as it was next to property [...]

London Garage On Market For Over Half A Million

Proof, if it were needed, that the property market in London’s poshest neighbourhoods is a law unto itself comes in the form of a press release from estate agents. A Knightsbridge agent is marketing a garage located “moments away from Harrods”. [...]

Surge In Buy To Let Investors

There has been a surge in house-buying activity by landlords. Independent research commissioned by specialist buy-to-let lender Paragon Mortgages has revealed that in the first quarter of this year, landlords increased their portfolio size from an average of nine to [...]

‘For Sale’ Board Mishaps!

Leading on from Stephen’s really informative article on how best not to sell your property HERE I really started to notice the boards agents use to sell and rent property and the real oddities that exist. Shockingly, all these photographs [...]

Tips On How Not To Sell…

(or Rent)… A client asked if I could take a look at a property today as it had been struggling to sell, despite it being for sale with two estate agents for quite some time. In fact it had been [...]

That Was April

Rear Gunner Pippa Middleton’s very lucky boyfriend, Romain Rabillard, thought it was highly amusing to wave a toy gun around at photographers, whilst out and about with Miss Middleton in his Audi convertible. Try it in Salford, pal. Tranny Love [...]

Olympics 2012 – Rent Your Flat To A Missile?!

The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower. A [...]

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