Read a piece by Merryn Somerset Webb, the Editor of Money Week, a few weeks ago and meant to reply.
MSW gave Graham Norwood a bit of a clip round the ear for suggesting that the slump in house-building was sowing the seeds for the next house price boom.
“This is all total complete and utter nonsense,” [...]

All talk is of a hefty rate cut this week – a half point at least, and possibly even a full one per cent.

But thus far lenders have been reluctant to pass on the cuts to consumers. So our question for today is:

Use the comment box below to explain your answer.

With Halloween on the way, and inspired by Joss’s punning chocolate post, here’s my spooky tale based on streets and placenames around the UK. (Apologies in advance. I got carried away. I’m sorry. So very, very sorry.)
(original lightning pic: istock:nature_247)

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…
‘Twas the night of AllHallows.
Rain(ham) was lashing down and the [...]

I blogged enthusiastically a while ago about Barratt Homes dishing out free beer at viewings.
Let me now take the opportunity to raise a glass (or three) to Ludlow Thompson for their splendid Good Pubs Rental List – in ma hones opinun (hic) … iz a brillen idea.
It’s not, let me hasten to add, that they’re [...]

Cadbury’s recently bucked the trend of most other businesses when they announced their profits were up by 11 per cent over the last quarter.
There’s got to be a connection between that and the general gloom that’s going around, surely?
We might not be able to heat our homes anymore but goddammit, we can still afford the [...]

The brilliant Bird & Fortune explain the credit crunch…
Bird: … all the milk is standing around and gets rancid and hardens, and then when you get hard milk what do you get?
Fortune: Cheese.
Bird: No, no, no, no, no. It’s more like a jelly. It wobbles, you see.
And at this point the man in the [...]

Mervyn King, top banana at the Bank of England, hit the headlines today because he dared to utter the ‘R’ word - recession.
I like Merv. His press appearances at the Bank of England’s Quarterly Cure For Insomnia have always been enlivened by his intellectual sophistication and sly sense of humour.
He seems like a really good [...]

I’ve been looking at pictures of the Kingsway Exchange bunker complex … which has just come on the market … and I can’t shake off an overwhelming sense of dread and panic.
Maybe it’s because to my eyes those long yawning corridors look like something from the spaceship in Alien.
You just know that if you ever [...]

It’s official: Glasgow is great. The Dear Green Place has only gone and made it into the Lonely Planet’s Top Ten list of best cities for visitors.
Not only that but it was the sole UK city to be included. Even better, it beat Edinburgh! Bring it on.
Of course, this news comes as no surprise to [...]

Not that I want to blow our own trumpet (toot-toot!) but it seems the good people (person?) over at the Property Owl Blog have some kind words to say about how engaging our humble blog is:
“Findaproperty.com rightly identified this area recently and now produce a good and interesting blog, which is aimed more at the [...]