Ok, look, I’m not completely mad – I do know that finance is a big issue at the moment, and that many people are concerned about job security. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
Lenders are beginning to loosen up just a smidgen – and if you have the money to hand, the market is [...]

Amy Winehouse is reportedly saying No, no, no to London life and upping sticks to a sedate village in the Suffolk countryside.
Tired of the temptations of the Capital, and in a bid to get her life back on track, the singer is supposedly just days away from completing on the purchase of a seven-bed period [...]

Lordy! Strong words indeed from Trevor Kent with regards the government’s will they, won’t they debacle over stamp duty earlier this week.
I have to say when I heard one of the suggestions being mooted was a stamp duty ‘holiday’ – as opposed to outright abolition or reform– I raised a sceptical eyebrow.
So I was rather [...]

Last summer – just as the Northern Rock storm broke – I was in the process of buying a flat in Brighton.
The deal dragged on and then eventually collapsed because the sellers were convinced that prices would just keep on rising – this despite my best efforts to explain that the market really was at [...]

No, not that kind of HIP replacement – I’m not quite ready for the surgeon’s knife yet.
No. What I want is this: either a proper Home Information Pack with a survey that we can all trust or no damn HIP at all. And I want it now.
Why? Because I’m in a right old strop (grrr!).
After [...]