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Just three years after becoming credit crunch poster bank and suffering the ignominy of a bank run, the nationalised Northern Rock is apparently about to announce a 90% mortgage. More here.
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No Oscar in the bag yet, but Colin Firth will I’m sure be delighted that he’s “the nation’s ideal neighbour”. According to data by Zoopla, Firth’s the celebrity neighbour you’d most like to have (with 15% of a very spread vote), soundly beating (something we’d pay to see) Cheryl Cole (with 9%). Firth, incidentally, lives [...]
Or it will be, if it gets approval next month. It’s a proposed underground extension to a £9m house on Templewood Avenue, and it will result in a ninefold increase in the property’s underground square footage (not overall square footage, as eye-catchingly suggested here). Still, it’s enough – two years work – to seriously worry [...]
The fox on the Shard [The London News]The mortgage famine [Citywire]The austerity timetable [FT]In the US: are buyers really swayed by vendors’ wealth-trappings? [Curbed]Barratt abandons ftbs [Telegraph]London’s pockets of value [City AM]
The Rat and Mouse – it’s about your house
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Last November, our publisher wrote about an interesting test case, before the Supreme Court, which demonstrated what could happen when European human rights law was applied to a landlord’s attempt to evict an anti-social or non-paying tenant. (You can catch up, if you like, here.) Today, the Daily Mail – under the slightly more hysterical [...]
According to the BBC, the Cleveland Street Workhouse Group (of campaigners fighting to save the 18th Century former Strand Union Workshouse from demolition to make way for a residential development) are claiming a move in the right direction after an English Heritage report appears to acknowledge it’s historic importance and promise a decision shortly. Expect [...]
An interesting start-up by LSE fellow Savvas Verdis, Rankdesk ranks London’s top ten properties submitted by agents for investment potential (based on its own “RQI Method” parameters – proximity to transport, parking, outdoor space, facilities etc for “Q”uality; price, yield, appreciations etc for “I”nvestment). You can access the top ten for free here, sign up [...]
Who’d have thought the minutes of a meeting by a bunch of inflation/interest rate geeks would ever be so interesting, but today’s publication of the previous MPC meeting has been awaited with some palm-rubbing. And it turns out the hawks (Andrew Sentance and Martin Weale) have recruited another… Spencer Dale. Dale joined Weale in voting [...]
Cutler & Bond is London’s first estate agency specialising in lower ground floor apartments. We know about the problems of lower ground living… lack of light… occasional damp issues… occasional security problems. What about the advantages? According to C&B’s enthusiastic Tim Day, lower service charges, the possibility of a little outdoor space and competitive prices.
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That’s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Colonel’s second son, the one who threw some cool parties but appears to have created some uncool controversy for himself after publicly taking a very anti-protest stance. He’s only likely to be your landlord, though, if you’ve a budget that will stretch to almost £10,000 a week, for an 8-bedroom home [...]