Some of our readers have scoffed at a story we published on Wednesday: House Prices Rose In April.
They think we’re trying to talk up the market, distort the truth and deny the reality of what’s currently happening to house prices.
Gareth Evans writes: “Amazing that you are still trying to hoodwink the populace and attempt to [...]

How would you feel about renting a flat from Google or Apple?
That may be on the cards if the property industry succeeds in convincing the Government to back the introduction of build-to-let schemes in the UK.
Build-to-let encourages big business to buy whole blocks and rent them out as branded accommodation.
So instead of paying your rent [...]

I’ve been a big fan of Tom Waits for many years so I’m delighted to hear that he’s just announced a European tour.
What, I hear you ask, has this got to do with property?
Nothing at all aside from the fact that Waits is the author of the most hilariously macabre song/recitation on weird neighbours that [...]

I’ve read some pretty odd stuff about the housing market but I’ve yet to come across anything as entertainingly off-the-wall as the suggestion that first-time buyers should welcome the eco-apocalypse.
This, at any rate, is the reasoning of “three young couples in London, England, planning to buy our first homes.”

The couples (above) run a website called [...]

I’m mightily impressed by Barratt’s latest marketing wheeze – free beer for all people coming to view the showhouses at their Hawthorns development in Witham.
I like beer. I like it enormously. I like houses, too. So this is the kind of imaginative marketing I can really relate to.
If I was a bit closer to Witham [...]

Boffins at Queen Mary’s, London, are wandering round in white coats trying to find out “how people can develop a long-term relationship with artificial creatures, in everyday settings”.
That’s robots to you and me – digital servants who’ll help ’round the house, befriend the lonely, and plug into the web to take care of dreary domestic [...]

With the credit crunch still in full swing and the whole sub-prime debacle continuing to generate gloomy headlines, a little light relief might be no bad thing.
And who better to cast a witheringly hilarious eye over the whole subject than Bird & Fortune?
Below is a piece they did for The South Bank Show, and it’s [...]

I was in a taxi the other evening making a big effort to increase my carbon footprint (difficult when you don’t have a car, but I try to make up for it by not recycling).
Anyway, the driver was Polish – a sort of thoughtful, well educated and very polite Travis Bickle with a Masters in [...]

Phil Spencer’s Location. Location, Location is unknown. The TV presenter has been taken into police protection following violent threats from frustrated first-time buyers.
Spencer, famed for his sotto voce whispering to the camera on Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location, is believed to be in hiding – possibly in a city centre pied a terre during the [...]

Loved up first-time buyers are taking the romantic route to homeownership, according to research by Charcol.co.uk.
Their figures reveal that back in 2006 joint buyers made up 45 per cent of first-time purchases, but in 2007 this rose to 50 per cent.

Charcol have tried to give a Valentine’s spin to the stats, and conclude that the increase [...]