Archive for October, 2006
October 31, 2006 at 5:15 pm
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“All roads for Britain’s new class of super-rich Indians lead to Northwood” [Times of India] London’s skyscraper plans make Newsweek [Newsweek] Andrew Gilligan’s Olympic Park super-mosque fears [TheFirstPost] Land Registry figures - 1.3% rise, September [My Finances] The Rat…
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Related Articles:Wednesday afternoon linkage - little luck for estate agents, Chancellor, councils BBC has little luck encouraging sympathy for estate agents [BBC] Chancellor has little luck calming house price fears [This Is Money] Councils have little...... click title for details
Tuesday afternoon linkage - parents: know your limitsBuy-to-let parents: learn the rules first [W3 debt solutions] Lambeth walks - property booms [Croydon Guardian] Council Tax rises seriously threaten old people [Local Government...... click title for details
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October 31, 2006 at 2:22 pm
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There’s a new survey - courtesy of Rated Tradesmen - that suggests a serious priorities imbalance amongst UK homeowners. Apparently, four out of ten men and a third of women would be more concerned about their house cracking up…
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ResortQuest Partners with Other Industry Leaders to Heighten Online Exposure of Vacation Rentals
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October 31, 2006 at 9:21 am
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I wish somebody had tipped me off about this yesterday, as I’d have turned up with a camera. Apparently, an entire Cornish village - called Lanreath - relocated to Islington Green yesterday, where they dressed a scarecrow up as…
Original post by articles and PropertyMagnate.com
Related Articles:Islington or Islingtonia? It's good to see the Guardian telling the truth about Islington. If you didn't know London, you' d believe - due to stereotype -...... click title for details
Cornish Festival in BrittanyIt may seem a little incongruous for the French to hold a Cornish Festival but that's exactly what the people of Quimper in Brittany enjoy...... click title for details
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October 31, 2006 at 9:06 am
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Nationally, prices rose 017% in October, leaving the annual rate of inflation at 8% (down from 8.2% in September). The three-month growth rate is at 2.6% (the fastest since September 2004). At this stage - with an interest rate…
Original post by articles and PropertyMagnate.com
Related Articles:Nationwide reports - fourth modest gainIt's 0.3% for June, the fourth consecutive rise. The annual figure's up to 5% from 4.7%. Press this to download a pdf of the report....... click title for details
Hometrack reports - 0.3% rise in December Which leaves Hometrack's view of the national market up 5.7% on the year; or - for Londoners - a massive 12.1%. More here. Meanwhile,...... click title for details
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October 30, 2006 at 2:04 pm
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The Telegraph takes a look at a handful of the latest and greatest websites offering an opportunity for movers to sell without the estate agency fees. The piece focuses on The Little House Company, HouseNetwork, AcreProperty and PrivateHQ. They’re…
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Internet Home Sales Soar Despite Ruptured Housing Bubble With New Site, 123Sold.com
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October 30, 2006 at 8:17 am
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A typical Monday morning in the London property market? An over-heated property market blowing off steam? The basis for the next interest rate rise? Millionaire bidding frenzy [Times] Homes outpace stocks by factor of three [Reuters] City bonuses fuel…
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Related Articles:Monday morning linkage - agents v. the web Sunday Times property price round table [Sunday Times] Estate agents v. the web [Independent] The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house Friday...... click title for details
Tuesday morning linkage - logjam Christmas moves [Find A Property] London property logjam [This Is Money] Going down [Times] Brokers: frustrated [Housefund.co.uk] The Rat and Mouse - it's about...... click title for details
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October 27, 2006 at 6:56 pm
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Almost overnight Expedia made the idea of a travel agent so 1980. The Travel Industry may have acquiesced to the designs of Expedia.com that forever changed the landscape of the travel business. However, the real estate industry is not going…
Original post by noemail@noemail.org (Tim O’Keefe) and PropertyMagnate.com
Related Articles:Zillow Grows While Realtors MoanZillow.com is partnering with over 280 newspapers to provide local classified information such as for-sale listings and open house information. An obvious move to become...... click title for details
Out Zillowed By FidelityFidelity just released their Web 2.0 answer to Zillow. Zillow promises Free Instant Valuation and Data for 67,000,000 + homes . Fidelity (called http://www.cyberhomes.com/ )...... click title for details
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October 27, 2006 at 10:08 am
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On Tuesday, it was the Telegraph; today, the Times… both inspired by the revamped Brunswick Centre, both extolling Bloomsbury as central London’s property hotspot du jour. (Rat and Mouse question: when the lawyers and media people and Rupert Everett…
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Related Articles:Bloomsbury - to be cultured once again According to this over at the BBC website, there are plans to turn Bloomsbury back into the cultured, intellectual village it once was, and...... click title for details
Americas Media Group’s Global Expansion Booms
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October 26, 2006 at 7:10 pm
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Buy-to-let still busy [Reuters] People say: better the cowboy you know… [BBC] House prices soar in Barnet [Barnet Times] Is the Telegraph obsesses with Thames Gateway? Or what? [Telegraph] Kirstie and the middle-classes, blind to reality [Guardian] The Rat…
Original post by articles and PropertyMagnate.com
Related Articles:Monday afternoon linkage - sympathy for estate agents Second homes of the stars [Forbes] Is Boris anti-skyscraper? [Times] Blairs kit out properties [Daily Mail] New trend... sympathy for estate agents [Observer] The...... click title for details
Thursday afternoon linkage - footballers’ homes Customers fear banks will go bust [firstrung] Footballers' homes [Telegraph] Meanwhile, in LA, 1,000 foreclosed homes auctioned off a day [LA Times blog] The...... click title for details
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October 26, 2006 at 7:08 pm
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Jeez, that headline’s so bad it’s made even me feel a bit nauseous. Sorry. The story is… we’ve just had word that Craig House, that giant former care home in Ham, Richmond, has just been sold to George Wimpey,…
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October 26, 2006 at 10:21 am
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Rat and Mouse readers will already know that in the battle of the property search portals, PrimeMove shares honours as one of our favourites. And the latest from this slick Googlemaps mashup is that they’re moving onto the next…
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Related Articles:Primemove: “nothing’s shifting” Over at property search engine Primemove they've been tracking the fortunes of 18,500 homes on the market since August 2007, and the results are...... click title for details
Homebuyers don’t give an A-G rating for energy efficiency That's the slightly alarming message property search portal Primemove got when surveying its users. Eighty-two percent said they'd disregard one of the government's soon-to-be-compusory...... click title for details
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October 25, 2006 at 2:36 pm
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