Monday morning linkage - estate agent will pay you to let them inside
House prices physically divide the generations [Observer]London Mayor’s plans for affordable house building [Guardian]First-time buyers hit by pre-Stamp Duty surcharge surge [Telegraph]Brixton estate...
View ArticleHarry Potter's Private Drive house for sale
It’s the Bracknell three-bedroom cul-de-sac property used in the film as 4, Privet Drive. Virtually unchanged - apparently - and still featuring a cupboard under the stairs (not photographed in the...
View Article61% of private renters are over 35
And almost half are over 46, according to new research by YourMove. And while 80% of 18 to 25-year-olds wanted to own their own homes in the future, 81% of tenants across the age groups said that...
View ArticleSavills bearish on prime central London until 2019
Expect falls of 9% in London’s top postcodes this year and don’t expect an upturn until 2019, says Savills. The EU referendum result has only added momentum to a market hat has been on a downturn for...
View ArticleBut will that $11m beach front property really make you happy?
An estate agent gets asked some searching questions about Leo DiCaprio’s Malibu beach house. Technorati Tags: property, real estate...
View ArticleFriday morning linkage - two more Foxtons branches imminent
Hometrack reports slowing price growth [Property Industry Eye]Surge in planning might contribute to falling house prices in Tower Hamlets [City AM]It takes seven years longer to get on the property...
View ArticleMonday morning linkage - a closer look at gentrification
Save £450k by living an hour’s commute from London [Mortgage Introducer]Incoming celebrity alert… are Emily Blunt and John Krasinski planning a London move? [IB Times]Gentrification, a closer look...
View ArticleSomething new and interesting at Zoopla
The button takes you two different ways to gain exposure to UK property by investing as little as £100. The options are “Property ISA”, in association with Bricklane.com, which manages a portfolio of...
View ArticleLondon property bubble second only to Vancouver
Swiss bank UBS’s “bubble index” lists London second in the top ten cities most likely to experience a severe property price correction, commenting that it’s particularly vulnerable to increased...
View ArticleTime to return to high density?
Controversial, but a problem-solver according to a new report by The Centre for London, which claims adding new storeys to current developments and demolishing estates and replacing them with high-rise...
View ArticleFriday morning linkage - the worst view in London
UK’s most expensive streets [Daily Telegraph]But prices on the most expensive of all are falling fast [Guardian]ONS’s latest private rental index [ONS]Help-to-Buy mortgage guarantee scheme dumped...
View ArticleFriday morning linkage - where are all the estate agents going?
Estate agent numbers shrinking [Property Industry Eye]London market will be slowest to recover from Brexit [City AM]Build-to-rent threatened by Khan’s discount flats plan [PropertyWeek]The UK’s most...
View ArticleMonday morning linkage - Jemima Khan's super-mews on the market
M25 commuter belt properties rise 551% in 30 years [Homes & Property]Exactly how tough is it for “Generation Rent”? [Daily Telegraph]For sale: Jemima Khan’s £8m west London mews [Mail on Sunday]...
View ArticlePeople are borrowing, banks are lending
New Bank of England figures show a mixed bag of mortgage lending data, but the headlines are that after two months of falls, new loans and remortgages were both up on the month in September. Annually,...
View ArticlePrefabs to sprout?
Hopefully not, according to Simon Jenkins, in an entertaining piece for the Evening Standard. After misleadingly comparing the modern prefab with the, literally, Jerry-built bungalows of old, he goes...
View ArticleLondon rents on the rise again
Nationally, annual rental inflation was unchanged at 2.3% in September, according to the ONS, but in London the figures shifted back into the black for the first time in seven months, with a lift of...
View ArticleHouse price inflation slowing, but P/E ratio at record high
The average home costs six times the average salary, according to the latest figures from Nationwide, after three years in which house prices have risen 20% but wages just 6%. The last time the P/E...
View ArticleRobbie Williams calls in exorcist to rid house of Michael Winner's spirit
You what? He bought Winner’s £17.5m Holland Park mansion in 2014 but - according to this - his missis is having a few issues with redecoration, as she feels she’s being watched over and her decisions...
View ArticleMonday morning linkage - Americans planning to flee to UK after Trump victory?
Americans look to UK property in case of Trump victory [Property Industry Eye]New York more affordable than London [CityAM]Savills predict rents will rise fast than prices in the next five years [BBC]...
View ArticleCheers, clapping, whooping and backslapping
It sounds like the Negotiator Awards were a noisy affair this year, with some controversy around the nature of the noise itself. Reports, here, of booing when the HouseSimple picked up the “Online...
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