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Brief Encounters: Tips and tricks for successful short term renting
If your clients are in town for more than a few nights this festive season, short term rentals can be a godsend when you need to recommend a hassle-free base that feels like home (and show off your local…
Scheme Stealers: Will the Funding for Lending rejig affect mortgage rates?
Will the premature curtailment of the Funding for Lending Scheme put pressure on the Banks and Building Societies to push up mortgage rates? Any increases will have more to do with commercial opportunism…
Ripple in Action: How Cambridge beat the blues
Few locations illustrate this (and last) year's buzz-phrase better than Cambridge
Required Reading: UK Capital Gains tax for non-residents?
There has been recent speculation that non-residents might have to start paying UK capital gains tax (CGT) on their UK property..
River Banking: London’s waterfront market
"The top 10 cities in the world for global real estate in terms of both where to live and invest are all located either on the banks of a major river, on the harbour front or by the ocean," points out …
New Land Reg stats show a “painfully slow UK recovery”
New numbers from the Land Registry show a "painfully slow UK recovery", with Q3's average house prices crawling up at a rate three times lower than the long term average, says London Central Portfolio's…
Prime & super-prime markets to stall until 2015 – Abrahmsohn
Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn looks back at the year that was and explains his predictions for 2014..
Artists in Residence: Where London’s art and property scenes collide
In the second instalment of his arty two-parter, Londonewcastle's Robert Soning takes us on a tour of the capital's most creative development hotspots..
“Surely we should stop bashing the rich” – B.Johnson
We should all be offering the super-rich "humble and hearty thanks," writes Boris Johnson in a characteristically philosophical piece for The Telegraph.
All By My Shelf: The interior design non-trend
How can you recreate this year's hottest interior design trend? Start by not following any trends, says Daniel Kostiuc...
Under Offered: A tale of two markets
The real world's not like the headlines so don't believe the hype, says our resident doer upper Alan Page, as serendipity gets the better of sales spiele in SW3
Not For Sale: The art of the direct approach
With some agents reporting eighteen buyers per instruction*, competition for "best in class" has never been tougher