It’s been a busy old week here at FaP Towers.
Yesterday we had the launch of the McDonald’s Best Chance Monopoly – we’re sponsoring the two £300k prizes to buy a home.
Today we’re very happy to be partnering Google in the launch of their innovative Street View addition to Google maps.
Street View allows you to view [...]

We’ve been asking our users what makes a home?
As you probably know, pretty much everyone in Ireland lives in either a castle or a cottage, so to celebrate this undisputed fact, here are some castles you can currently buy there.
Most of them are of Norman provenance, and they obviously weren’t big on floor-to-ceiling windows, the [...]

Thanks to our research team for this week’s graph, which comes from MyHomeLife, their regular consumer survey.
It’s based on responses from 1,000 visitors to Primelocation.com and FindaProperty.com, and it’s fairly self-explanatory.
Most people think the market will bottom out before, or by, autumn of this year.
Do you agree? – send us your views using the Comments [...]

La la la la la!  Three weeks on from our emotional house move and home life has improved heaps.
The house itself seems to have accepted me and is now allowing me unimpeded access as opposed to its previous No Entry stance.
Inside, the box-to-floor-space ratio has decreased massively, so much so that we’ve even had some [...]

The folks over at Park Let have just emailed us a link to a new tool on their website. Type in a postcode and it will calculate how much you could make per month renting out your parking space.
Apparently, I’d be able to make between £87-106 per month. Or at least I would be if [...]

Oh lordy, it’s all beginning to sound a bit medieval. Numis Securities, a City investment bank, have been making like Nostradamus as far as the housing market goes.
Lo, they say unto us, a veritable plague cometh and there will be much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and a really big fire sale in the buy-to-let sector.
The [...]

We’re big fans of Video Jug here at Winging It. And we also like glove puppets.
So we really loved this video.
Check it out … it’s guaranteed to put a smile on your face!

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The latest survey from The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) reveals that there are plenty of hungry buyers out there circling the market, but very few are actually taking a bite.
But with prices still falling, and rates low it’s surely only a matter of time before all that interest translates into sales. Isn’t it? [...]

Thanks to Jess over at Primelocation’s blog for alerting us to the fact that London agent Marsh & Parsons have started vlogging (video blogging).
Here’s their first from MD Peter Rollings – they’re keen to have feedback, so let them know what you think.
I’ve spoken to Peter many times in the past and he really is [...]

I am a home owner! It is official.
Well, trying not to get too excited as I know these things can fall through at any time but what the hell, got to celebrate and I’m allowed to be excited!
I went to see a place last week (2-bed flat) and although it was not what I thought [...]