So that’s it: summer appears to have gone for another year, before it even really arrived.
I say this after having been absolutely drenched twice yesterday – once on the way into work and again on the way home – followed by an evening of listening to relentless rain lashing against the windows.
Not surprisingly, the expression [...]

I was browsing through the site the other day when I came across this: the former home of Giant William Bradley in the Yorkshire town of Market Weighton.
Who he? A quick Google of the name reveals that Bradley (b. 1787)  is the tallest British man that ever lived – he was a shade under eight [...]

The Bank of England published their monthly stats on lending yesterday so I thought it would be interesting to feature a graph displaying lending levels over the past few years.
Lending for house purchase was up again in July - indeed, with 50,000 approvals, July was the strongest month for lending this year and 53 per [...]

Interesting piece over on the Guardian’s Money Blog today about a timber shed up for auction for £150,000 – just £10,000 less than the Nationwide’s average UK house price, as Hilary Osborne notes.
Osborne wonders if this is “a return to pre-crash price insanity, or is it money well spent on a prime spot?”

Looking at the [...]

The Property: Listed Victorian church
The Place: Aberfeldy, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
The Price: £190,000 OIEO

The Pain: It’s a big and potentially expensive project – all the more so since planning permission is for conversion into four large apartments.
And at the end, you’ll have to find four buyers to make your money – which in the current [...]

Barry over in the Build Cool New Stuff team has done it again: his latest wheeze is a very handy Add Notes tool on every property detail.
Keep an eye open for this icon - it’s on the right hand side of every property detail.

As a registered user you can click on this, write some comments [...]

This week’s graph comes from the Office of National Statistics and charts the level of house-building activity in England.
According to the latest figures, there were 29,980 housing starts in the quarter to June, a 63 per cent increase on the previous quarter.
This is the second successive quarterly rise but the year-on-year figures show that the [...]

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The Property: A Grade A listed folly built around 1840
The Place: Keltneybridge, Kenmore, Perthshire PH15
The Price: OIEO £150,000
(Click on pics for full property details)

The Pain: Well, it’s in a pretty poor state and needs complete renovation – and that includes renewing the services (water, septic tank, mains electricity).
It’s Grade A listed – Grade I in [...]

It’s no surprise to be told that a sea view will cost you. But how much more are vendors willing to pay?
The clever number-crunchers over at Savills have taken a look at the 12,000 sales that took place in Cornwall in 2008 and have come up with some very precise figures.
While there are significant variations [...]