Asides (Page 4)

Publication this morning of the Governments’ long-awaited Housing Strategy for England came too late for the bouncing Tigger of a Housing Minister, Mr Grant Shapps. He had already been monopolising the airwaves with a succession of interviews from TV Centre – for national television, breakfast radio programs and for mostContinue Reading

On the day a Halifax survey has been published suggesting that sales of million pound properties has reached a four year high closer examination of the Land Registry data suggests that this may also have been the peak. Typically around 0.75% of all sales of homes in England & WalesContinue Reading

Imagine a party with Oliver Reed, George Best and Peter O’Toole. It’s half past eleven and Best is still warming up in the Phene Arms yet you sense that the evening is only just getting going. By 3.00am the neighbours will be complaining and at 7.00am the next morning thereContinue Reading

Earlier this month in their regular report on asking prices the Rightmove ‘greed gauge’ recorded vendor expectations having risen 0.7% on the previous month and was 1.5% up on September last year. This morning (Wednesday) the Land Registry confirmed that despite estate agent optimism sale prices for the relatively few homes that had actuallyContinue Reading

So now we have part 2. With the debate on the merits of part 1 of the estate agent ‘mockumentary’ still smoldering the makers have just sprayed petrol on the embers with the release of the next ‘episode’ which has been launched today and it is likely to divide opinionContinue Reading

Those with not enough to do (or as I prefer to describe myself and others like me “those with an interest in social media and the property market” have aching sides having watched the YouTube film “UnderOffer2011”, described as a ‘Mockumentary’ and set in an estate agent office somewhere inContinue Reading