Last week I asked whether it was time to start buying again. Among those who responded 65 per cent said no, the market has further to fall and 35 per cent said yes, we’re over the worst.
My own view is this: the market does have further to fall, but yes, we are over the worst [...]

During WWII the Ministry of Information printed bright red signs with this ‘chin up’ message.
Now a Tunbridge Wells estate agent has dusted one off and placed it in his front window.
Full marks, we say, to the folks at  Alexandre Boyes for their wry sense of humour … and well done, too, for a clever piece [...]

When markets fall people get nervous, sit on the sidelines and wait for things to bottom out.
Calling the low point of a market is, however, very tricky, which is why most experts will tell you that the best possible scenario is to buy close to the bottom – better to make a small short-term loss [...]

What would happen if the head honchos at our high street banks had to pitch to the fire-breathers on Dragons’ Den?
iBallTv reckon it would run like this …funny, sharp, and all too true…

The witty Royals of Rent blog reveals that negotiators at Falcon and Foxglove (Burnley) have taken to burying statues of St Joseph in the gardens of properties they’re trying to sell.
St Joseph? Despite many years enduring the tender ministrations of Sisters of Mercy, Christian Brothers, Jesuits and Dominicans, this is a new one on me.

But [...]

Consider this. It’s 1952. You live in Boswell, British Columbia, and you’ve spent 35 years working as a mortician in the local funeral parlour.
Now it’s time to retire. But how are you going to make the most of your twilight years?
David H. Brown could have spent them trout fishing in the local lakes, but instead [...]

“There’s a curious truth in architecture that the worse the conditions of the project, the more beautiful the solution.”
So mused Kevin McCloud about this beleaguered project in Cheltenham when Grand Designs featured it back in January.
But I think Kev may have been having a bit of an off day. The house, built in defiance of [...]

The cats I can live with. They sit on my windowsill, lick their chops, and give me the evil eye. When I’m not looking they slink across the living room, slide through the bedroom, and pour out the window into the back garden.
No problem.
But the slugs I can definitely do without.  And it looks like [...]

Yesterday The Negotiator (a trade mag for estate agents) inadvertently put the wind up everyone with a report headlined: “House sales plummet 80 per cent, Land Registry data reveals.”
Crikey!
It continued: “So far, only 21,749 sales have been recorded for this July in England and Wales – a fall of 79 per cent compared with July [...]

A great big yawning gap is opening up between house price indices based on the Land Registry’s data and those based on lenders’ mortgage approvals.
Just last week Nationwide told us that house prices had tumbled into double-digit decline with a -10.5 per cent fall since August 2007.
The next day the Land Registry revealed that prices [...]