Meat Market: They call them Offers, I call them Pointless

Alan Page was for many years an award winning advertising creative director and founder of his own successful agency. More recently he has served on the boards of various marketing businesses and acted as a property buying agent in the South of France. He has owned numerous homes in London, Paris and Saint Tropez and has now turned his hand to small prime central London property development.
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...
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‘Impenetrable’ housing market pushes homeowners to improve, rather than move
Proportion of homeowners deciding to renovate rather than relocate has soared five-fold since 2013, with "prohibitively" high property prices and stamp duty cited as the main reasons...
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Call Me Maybe: Why you should never leave voicemails
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