I get regular news bulletins and opinion pieces from the excellent MoneyWeek, and they’re usually fairly feisty – especially when it comes to the housing market.
Last week John Stepek got in a right old strop when he read a piece in the FT suggesting that all is not lost because there is still a lot [...]

Ahhhh, Seattle – home of Sub Pop, Starbucks and mutant dogs.
Let me explain. The very amusing blog Photoshop Disasters led me to a very odd property listing in Shoreline, Seattle.
As I flicked through the photos all appeared to be in order: 4 bedrooms, large living room, modern kitchen.
But then on the 7th picture in the [...]

It ain’t the workin’ man’s blues, it ain’t the lovin’ blues … it’s the subprime mortgage crisis blues!
A catchy animated take on the US housing market from the Explanotions team on Current TV…

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Here are the top 20 areas that people searched for on FindaProperty.com during June.

I was browsing through our South West pages today in search of a wreck when I came across this three-sided curiosity.
It’s the entrance to a now defunct underground reservoir and was originally commissioned by the Duke of Bedfordshire (more here: Legendary Dartmoor).
Being a duke (ie: minted) he didn’t employ some local brickie to knock a [...]

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 [...]