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More flats appearing on The Bishops Avenue?You get the bling address, va-va-voom interiors and service staff for a fifth of the price. The only thing you don't get is a friendly atmosphere, the lack of which is suffocating What? The Bishops Avenue? Stuffy? This interesting... Friday morning linkage - upsizing, downsizing and FoxtonsNew York as bad as London, for volume [The Real Deal] Family upsizers hit hard by system [Telegraph] FT blogger: "Hopefully Foxtons will go bust" [Londonist] The young are downsizing [Times] 130 famiilies losing homes each day [Daily Mail]... So what's the mayor going to do about property in LondonHe's going to: spend £5bn over three years provide "gap funding" to rescue stalled private developments buy up unsold homes (while the market's in the doldrums) and use them as affordable housing extend the existing shared ownership schemes to... Dragon offers property investment tipsIt's James Caan. Not that one. This one. And he's chatting with the Telegraph's Zoe Dare Hall. Seven tips, including: Now he is on another spending spree – a £50million one in Mayfair – as now, he says, is... Nestoria powers Telegraph's property searchCongratulations to property search engine Nestoria... they've just added the Telegraph to their growing roster of search partners. Technorati Tags: property, real estate, Web2, web2.0... Thursday morning linkage - the streets of west LondonRough Luxe - a truly original London hotel [Wallpaper] Credit crunch forces Wembley back into Olympic venue contention [Guardian] Sales are up [Telegraph] The expensive streets of west London [WhatMortgage] The Rat and Mouse - the best of London... A bad businessPersonally, as one of the taxpayers who recently contributed to the banking system, I don’t think there’s much to be said for forcing banks to borrow at the Libor rate and lend at 0%. That feels like bad business... NAEA figures - mixed messageEstate agents are selling more homes: one more a week, in fact, at seven each in October. But they've more unsold properties on their books. More here. Technorati Tags: estate agents, real estate agents... David Schneider pens estate agent sitcom for Radio 4No transmission dates, as yet, but we'll keep you informed. We do know, however, that it's to be called Gazumped. Something here and here. Technorati Tags: estate agents, real estate agents... Board-makers hit by estate agency disasterMeanwhile Kremer Signs, the market-leading boards manufacturer, has laid off 26 of its 64-strong workforce and says monthly production is down by almost 20,000 boards a month – and by 30,000 from peak. It's peak? 80,000 boards a month.... Kirstie Allsopp's Wikipedia page under attackLooks like there's some mischief going on. Forget whether it's justified to blame a TV presenter for an international property boom, just lament the lack of imagination. Technorati Tags: property TV... Mr Angry attacks Kirstie & PhilIf either of you two charlatans had an ounce of decency you would apologise to the millions of people you helped in no small way get into the misery of negative equity. And give all the money you got... Super-sustainable in ClaphamOver at Rat and Mouse HQ, we can remember when Will Anderson began his ambitious eco-home self-build in the heart of Clapham. In fact, I have a feint recollection of a diary, running in - I think - the... Confusion over SVRsStandard variable rates... once the "punishment" rate you paid if you'd been too flakey to sort yourself out a nice fixed rate mortgage or tracker. But not any more: Francis Ghiloni, marketing and business development director at mform.co.uk, says:... Update on the Beckham housePerhaps we were being a little cynical. According to this, the owners have already received a £1m bid from an Australian Beckham fanatic. But really??!! Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, property, real estate... |