If you’ve been watching the current Phillipe Starck thingy on the box (Design For Life) you’ll know that designers … well … they can be a bit precious, a bit daft, and occasionally quite mad.

Some of the ideas pitched by the students beggar belief, but none of them can quite match the antic capers of [...]

The Property: The ruined remains of a Grade II* listed country house

The Place: Chepstow, Monmouthshire
The Price: £2,000,000

The Pain: When we say ruined, we mean ruined: the place is a roofless echoing shell. It is, however, a Grade II* listed echoing shell, which means if you do take it on you’ll have to work closely [...]

Here’s an interesting table showing FindaProperty.com’s hotspots in August.
The ranking is based on the most enquiries (sales and rent) generated per area, which, I think, is a more genuine measure of actual activity than, say, the number of pages or properties clicked on.
City centres and London dominate the list, and Bristol also seems to be [...]

If you use Google today you’ll notice the current Google Doodle features a spaceship hovering over an English village – H.G. Wells was born on 21 September 1866 and the image is a reference to one of his most famous books: The War of the Worlds.

I’ve always found it mildly amusing that extraterrestrial commuters in [...]

This week’s graph comes from our shiny new House Prices & Affordability Index, the first edition of which was launched today.
What it shows is divergence in the marketplace: house prices rising at the upper end and falling at first-time buyer level.
Why the two-tier trend? Because those at the higher end – either cash rich or [...]

The Property: Grade II listed detached oast
The Place: Tenterden Road, Rolvenden, Kent.
The Price: £395,000 OIEO
Click pics for full details
The Pain: Oasts are not the easiest things in the world to convert, and a listed oast will inevitably come with its own challenges.
This one will need to have all the utilities connected. It is, says the [...]

Our research team has just sent round some pretty amazing figures: in August the number of visitors to FindaProperty.com passed the three million mark.
The actual total was 3.1 million, a whopping 34.2 per cent year-on-year increase, and the highest monthly total since records began way back in 1997.
That means that in August one of you [...]

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 [...]