It’s a chill wind blowing through the property market
It is not just the icy blast of a winter wind straight from Siberia that has been cooling the UK housing market. The thermometer might have been reading minus twelve outside Rob Towers this morning – but things are even frostier in the world of real estate with property prices falling faster than the [...]
Yo Ho Ho - it’s another Unhappy Xmas for Estate Agents
Somewhat unusually for me I got most of my Christmas shopping done early this year. Being something of a skinflint I always make a beeline for free parking areas, rather than pay through the nose for a car park. And one of the joys of this practice is that it is near to [...]
It’s time to move on
I’m thinking of selling my home. Winter is definitely on the way. I’ve noticed a distinct chill in the air as I walk the dog in the fields behind Rob Towers. So the lure of living abroad is getting stronger again. Also I have just had a bellyful of politicians on [...]
The happiness of remortgaging
I am reliably informed that from this month I become a lot better off this week. Simply because I have finally managed to get out from a fixed-rate mortgage. And the strange thing is, when I took out the mortgage that was considered a good idea too – because as we know mortgage [...]
Time to let – not buy
For the second time this month a sign of slump in the UK property market has materialised in our street. It appears that nice old lady Doris from over the road (or more likely her daughter) has decided that looking after a house on her own is too much. So [...]