Tuesday’s Today programme on Radio 4 featured a gentleman from the Building Society Association to talk about the latest BSA report and how it reflected the current housing market. It was interesting to hear that mortgage transaction levels are increasing but I was slightly concerned that the phrases (…)
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It will come as no surprise to our regular followers that yet again Cheshire and Co have their finger on the pulse of the media. By that I mean that en route to an appointment yesterday I was listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2. The (…)
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The power and reach of the internet and the world wide web knows no bounds. For that we have to thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Just imagine being introduced to a gentleman at The Priory Hotel (the go-to place for the movers and shakers of Monmouthshire) and asking what he (…)
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I recently had a Damacean moment when I realised that my 30 years in the property business had been wasted because all I really needed to do was read 2 pages of the Money Mail on Wednesday 29 May. As a regular reader of the Daily Mail and (…)
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The perfect tenant? Someone who is impeccably tidy (OCD possibly), uncomplaining, who has no plans to move and happily accepts large yearly rent increases. Back to reality, we all know that tenants fall into several categories: students, young professionals, families and housing benefit recipients. I was amused to (…)
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After a recent report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors informing us that demand for houses rose to its highest level for more than three years after the April launch of Help To Buy, one has to ask what is exactly fuelling this sudden enthusiasm? We may (…)
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