Miscellanea
Brouhaha over plans to turn landmark pub into a Foxtons
The Elephant & Castle pub, which some say gave the south London area its rather odd name, looks destined to become the latest branch of Foxtons.
Holiday Home Hotspots: England & Wales’ top ten destinations
Cornwall, unsurprisingly, is the UK's holiday home capital, notching up 10,000 leisure residences - that's 6% of all holiday homes in England & Wales.
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£2.73m: ‘Mansion’ Miliband tops party leader property stakes
Someone's just worked out that Ed Miliband would be the only party leader currently required to pay the proposed Mansion Tax.
Vendors now ‘more open to negotiation’ than at any time over the last six years
There's plenty of clients out there, and some deals to be had, reports Mayfair-based buying agency Black Brick, but most of the action has predictably been below £2m...
#Budget2015: The prime property industry’s reactions
No surprises in today's pre-election Budget, and not much new that directly affects the top of the market, but there are still some things to have opinions about...
Read about what was announced here.
Newnham crowned ‘Best Place to Live in Britain’
A suburb of Cambridge has been named as the best place to live in the UK.
The Sunday Times reckons Newnham has it licked, combining a village atmosphere with close proximity to a thriving city centre.
Please Mr Osborne: An estate agency’s Budget wishlist
Although the UK now has one of the fastest growing economies in the developed world, London-based estate agency Chestertons thinks that the Chancellor still has an embarrassingly large budget deficit…
Best Places to Live 2015: The UK’s top 50 urban locations
After crowning Chagford as the best spot to live in Britain's countryside, the Sunday Times turned its attention to urban areas in the second heat of its annual "Best Places to Live" rundown.
Why rich-bashing is not going to fix this housing crisis
"No one is suggesting that there are not corrupt people around the world," says London Central Portfolio's Naomi Heaton, but that doesn't mean that everyone who owns a London property through an offshore company…
Look Back in Anger: An unwelcome return to the first doer upper
Revisiting past projects is a BIG mistake, admits Alan Page after looking up an old home - the first doer upper - in Putney...
Introducing PrimeResi Quarterly: The new handbook of the luxury property industry
Informative, intelligent, and full of useful stuff, the Quarterly is intended to be an antidote to the glossy property pornography that so many other magazines do so well.
OnTheMarket aims to usurp Zoopla by January 2016; eyes up the Rightmove position
As Agents' Mutual's new property portal claims its millionth visitor, boss Ian Springett has piped up about the marketing war that's being waged between incumbent No.2 portal Zoopla and the newbie.