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Imagine being able to shave 26% off the asking price of the house of your dreams. Well, it’s taken one client two years to do it but last week we exchanged contracts on a lovely Hertfordshire house that was first … Continue reading
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“My client simply won’t take less” said the bubbly selling agent when I first bid on the pretty four bed flat in Belsize Park. When the flat was first marketed last summer the guide price of £1.65m had produced a … Continue reading
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With the publication of the latest numbers from The Land Registry we can now review the market and see how the year is shaping up. Remember that the samples or ‘baskets’ of properties used by the various brands who provide … Continue reading
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As if we didn’t know it London is made up of many different smaller markets and just as there isn’t ‘a national housing market’ it’s not really fair to judge Mayfair along with The Old Kent Road. I have clients … Continue reading
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Ok, don’t answer that. My question is actually directed at the optimistic (or should that be just plain greedy) vendors who at no cost to themselves ask an estate agent to waste everyone’s time by asking too much for their … Continue reading
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The monthly charade that is the RiCS house price survey provides the excuse to take a look at the health of the housing market – the property equiverlant of sticking a photo of Pippa Middleton on the front page – … Continue reading
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Up early for a turn on Wake Up To Money on Radio FiveLive to be described as “our own favourite property expert” but the famously generous Mickey Clark. Then on to the last BBC Breakfast to come from Tv Centre. … Continue reading
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Each new house price survey is published to cries of “it’s skewed by the London effect” and commentators will point to the capital and it’s influence on ‘average’ house prices. Rightmove records prices in London are now at £435,000, twice … Continue reading
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Starting at 6.00am I spoke to Phil Williams on BBC FiveLive on Weekend Breakfast about the end of the two year Stamp Duty holiday. Then on to BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Radio Berkshire and then finishing at 8.10 with a chat … Continue reading
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A quick look at the bigger property portals suggests that there are more than 2,000 homes currently for sale with guide prices of more than £2m. In his Budget the Chancellor has decided that buying something at this level is now going to … Continue reading
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A live interview looking ahead to Wednesday’s Budget which we now expect will deal with so called ‘stamp duty avoidance’ was followed by pre-record spots for the BBC 10 o’Clock News and a piece for Channel 4 News. Here’s the … Continue reading
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On BBC Breakfast this morning the tragic story of my neighbour Violet Grainger and the fire that destroyed her house a year ago. Trying to save money she had cancelled the £300 a year insurance premium and although it is … Continue reading
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In amongst some excellent and innovative ideas in last years Housing Strategy was something that looked like it had been left in a draw in the Department for Communities and Local Government by it’s founder, the over-promoted John Prescott. Not … Continue reading
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Up early on a Sunday morning to talk to Phil & Anna at 6am about the Halifax raising their Standard Variable Rate. Help provided the night before by the lovely Melanie Bien and a crib sheet from the CML all … Continue reading
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I’d forgotten about the BBC MoneyWatch program broadcast in 2010. Here a sample of my contribution – Alan and Radha want to buy a home in Sheffield. Like many people looking in this recession they’d like to decide what to … Continue reading →