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 [...]

I read that Gatwick Airport is up for sale, a snip at £1.8billion. It’s certainly not your average ‘property for sale’, but its particulars are impressive:

(original photos: johnsto and stormo66)

“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 [...]

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 [...]

The publication of the CML’s half-yearly stats on BTL lending generated a lot of ‘end is nigh’ headlines … Such as:
•    The Buy-To-Let Chickens Come Home To Roost (Guardian)
•    Buy-To-Let Backfires (Daily Mail)
Not quite sure what a backfiring chicken coming home to roost would look like, but you get the general idea… investors are in [...]

News reaches us of harsh happenings over at The Shire. The Hobbits, it seems, are facing an enemy of truly awesome proportions.
Not the demonic Lord Sauron with his Cradle of Filth threads; not the bad ass Black Riders; not even the plug ugly Orcs with their anger issues and gross dental hygiene …
Nah, this is [...]

Pssst! Fancy a real bargain? A property at well below its genuine market value? And how about nabbing it without using any of your own money?
Ok. Now find a few more cut-price lovelies, repeat the process, and you, me old mucka, will be well on your way to becoming a champagne sipping, Ferrari driving, villa-in-the-south-of-France-owning  [...]

Here are the top 20 UK Areas and Regions that people searched for on FindaProperty.com during July.

Lordy! Strong words indeed from Trevor Kent with regards the government’s will they, won’t they debacle over stamp duty earlier this week.
I have to say when I heard one of the suggestions being mooted was a stamp duty ‘holiday’ – as opposed to outright abolition or reform– I raised a sceptical eyebrow.
So I was rather [...]