Last summer - just as the Northern Rock storm broke – I was in the process of buying a flat in Brighton.
The deal dragged on and then eventually collapsed because the sellers were convinced that prices would just keep on rising - this despite my best efforts to explain that the market really was at [...]

“Most [TV] programmes appear to be fronted by presenters with no grasp of or interest in serious property issues and most formats do not allow room for serious discussion preferring instead to focus on aesthetics rather than anything more meaningful…
“We Brits are endlessly fascinated by property. But surely I can’t be the only one who [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

No, not that kind of HIP replacement - I’m not quite ready for the surgeon’s knife yet.
No. What I want is this: either a proper Home Information Pack with a survey that we can all trust or no damn HIP at all. And I want it now.
Why? Because I’m in a right old strop (grrr!).
After [...]