Flat Out: Jane’s Diary Of A First-Time Buyer (#4)

The guys from the Beeb came down last weekend and filmed me doing some embarrassing strolling along the beach, followed by some embarrassing staring out to sea (which I do before every viewing!).
But they were very lovely so I was happy to help out, smile while freezing, and enjoy my five minutes of fame!
Hopefully FindaProperty.com [...]

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Top 10 Property Blogs

Excluding us, obviously, and the blogs produced by our sister company Primelocation.com…
Here, in no particular order, are the ones I have hard-wired into my Google Reader.
1. Royals of Rent: Clever, engaging, and visually pleasing blog about renting in London.

2. Agent’s Diary: Wonderfully morose musings from 40-something London agent facing the downturn surrounded by “cretinous idiots”.

3. [...]

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The “What Makes A Home?” Quotation Quiz

We’re currently running an advertising campaign featuring real people talking about their idea of home … we’d love to know what it means to you, so please visit the main site’s What makes a home? page and post your views.
In the meantime … welcome to the big, fun, Winging It “What Makes A Home?” Quiz [...]

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Graph Of The Week

Ok, so this week we have something a bit different: mad German musician feeds stock market results into Microsoft’s Songsmith program and generates graphs set to music …
True, it all sounds horribly cheerful and cheesy but maybe that’s the point: if I was a stockbroker, this infuriating muzak would be enough to push me over [...]

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Brighton In The Snow

View of St Nicholas’ Church from the FindaProperty.com Brighton office

An army of snowmen snowpeople!

Slip sliding away

The old Dyke Road Workhouse

SEO gurus don’t do hats
Got any snowy pics that you’d like to share? Send them to editorial@findaproperty.com and we’ll put the best up on the blog.

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Snow Is Answer To Housing Problem

Ok people, there’s maybe four or five inches of snow out there and the country has come to a standstill. But the Government never sleeps.
I’ve just had a press release from the DCLG explaining that the snow is a great opportunity to help meet the Government’s housing targets.

Housing minister Margaret Beckett says:
“Snow is the ultimate [...]

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Flat Out: Jane’s Diary Of A First-Time Buyer (#3)

I didn’t get the flat and I’m heartbroken (bit dramatic but there were tears!).
I know there will be others but I loved that flat and I had set my heart on it being mine.
Need to erase it from my mind, burn all pictures of it and move on. It wasn’t ‘the one’.

It all fell apart [...]

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Calling All Shed Heads!

Took a ramble over to readersheds.co.uk a few days ago, and my how they’ve grown!
What began as a bit of fun at the end of the garden has mushroomed into an internet phenomenon with forums, blogs, celebrity involvement, merchandising, flickr groups, and, I kid you not, TV shedcasts (yea!)
Uncle Wilco, the man behind the site, [...]

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Graph Of The Week

From the latest Hometrack report … while they rightly caution against calling the bottom of the market, this is an interesting trend:

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Flat Out: Jane’s Diary Of A First-Time Buyer (#2)

This is getting more stressful and more complicated by the day.
I’ve been to do the mortgage bit and am thanking my parents for drumming into me the horrors of debt.
After a couple of seconds of nervous nail biting, the credit check returned a green flashing ‘accept’ sign and I am clean as a whistle (well, [...]

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