Sky News

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Lloyds Banking Group suggested that the cost of moving home has leapt by 69% over the past decade. Howver, inflation accounts for much of this rise and of course house prices have risen by 64% over that time. Here’s my summary on Sky News with the lovely Sam Washington, their business presenter.

Do you need PR?

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My good friend Michael Millar has produced a great website that helps you understand the value of PR. He has teamed up with Robbie Knox to produce a kind of ‘PR for Dummies’ guide. It’s a mine of information and well worth looking visiting. I should warn you that there are some less credible bits [...]

Ask your agent to make you an offer you can’t refuse.

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There are roughly half the number of homes for sale than there were four years ago when  prices peaked in January 2008. Although there is still no official register of estate agents there were thought to be about 14,000 firms. Since then many have diversified into lettings but there hasn’t been the body count that [...]

BBC News

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Can you summarise the outlook for the sales & lettings markets in 3 minutes? No, I’m not sure I can either but here’s my crack at doing so.

How was 2011 for you?

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With the results for November published by HM Land Registry last Friday and having kept records of sales, asking prices, sold prices and other data all year we can now begin to assess just how 2011 was for the housing market. Asking prices start to fall. Asking prices took a dramatic fall in the last [...]