I was wandering around the Neocribs blog the other day when I came across this … a hairy rough-hewn hunter-gatherer kind of a house in the middle of a Swedish forest.
Being Swedish, of course, it’s also beautifully designed – a perfectly pitched combination of Red Cedar wood shingles, Birch lattice, plasterwork, and reindeer fur.
Reindeer fur?? [...]

If you’ve used Google today, you’ll have seen that it features a picture (a so-called Google Doodle) of a shower of meteors streaking across the night sky and … gulp! – heading straight for a defenceless house.
This is a reference to the Perseid meteor shower, coming to a night-time sky near you this evening - [...]

There are lots of house price reports out there but only one will tell you how much sellers actually got for their properties: the Land Registry’s sold prices data.
In their latest report (June), they revealed that prices in England and Wales have risen for the first time in over a year.

It wasn’t a massive rise [...]

Following our announcement last week that we’d experienced our highest ever Sunday traffic levels, we’ve only gone and broken another in-house record.
Our Research team have confirmed that the month of July 2009 saw more visitors coming to FindaProperty.com than ever before, with an average of over 3,900 visitors to the site every single hour!

The number [...]

Our research team have been busy scrutinising our traffic levels and tell me that on 26 July 2009 we broke the existing record for the number of visitors logging onto the site on a Sunday.
Last Sunday, we recorded an average of 113 visits every minute. The previous Sunday record was on 22nd February 2009 when [...]

Following on from Joss’s post below about studio houses, here’s a random fact for you: Dante Gabriel Rossetti wasn’t just an artistic pioneer; he was also one of the first men in England to die in a bungalow.
This, admittedly, was because he was also one of the first people in England to live in a [...]

We have an interesting graph this week from our research team showing the relationship between falling stock levels and rising prices.
According to our figures, stock levels in the sales market are down 21.7 since their peak in February and have fallen month-on-month since then.
Significantly, house prices stabilized in April and have been on the rise [...]

Ever had problems finding a gift for the garage owner who has everything?  Yep, me too.  It’s an all-too-common problem these days.
But not any more! An enterprising German company has come up with the perfect solution: photo tarpaulins in handy garage-sized dimensions.

Take your pick from a staggering array of designs.  Yacht; racing car; jet plane; [...]

Anyone see Property Snakes & Ladders the other night? Quite an interesting show about the conversion of an old railway station.
This put me in mind of a couple of very cool homes I’ve come across recently – both made from old railway carriages.
First up is this one in Dorset – which looks a bit like [...]

Our technical chaps are always busy trying to come up with clever new features that make life easier for our users.
So when Barry from the ‘Build Cool New Stuff’ team was seen running naked around the car park roaring “Eureka!” we knew that either A) they’d come up with something quite good or B) old [...]