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 [...]
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 [...]
Mortgages are up - housing still down
Despite the very best efforts of the BBC, the housing market simply refuses to go up. It seems to be a monthly game for them in their endless quest to fill out acres of empty space in a 24 hour news programme. Why else would monthly mortgage news be mandatory.
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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 [...]
Housing Market News
Is there a more annoying way to start the day than Breakfast television. Short segments of autocue reading interspersed with pretend experts mouthing platitudes and rubbish. What a pity I dropped the radio in the kitchen. Today that reliable old space filler ‘the housing market is picking up’ was given another airing – [...]