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Tuesday morning linkage - the bully next-door 27 Aug 2013 | 03:32 pm
Londoners hit by stamp duty bands [Evening Standard]The bully next-door [Daily Telegraph]Chess goes Monopoly [Londonist]The Foxtons flotation, at last it's official [BBC] The Rat and Mouse - it's abou...
Calls to pull Help to Buy out of London 23 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
Buy-to-let specialists Assetz and Home.co.uk are both calling for the Government to remove Help to Buy assistance from London (and, in the case of Assetz, the entire south east). The shared equity sch...
Hedge fund boss digs himself an expensive hole 23 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
He's Reade Griffith, founder of Polygon Investment Partners, and the story is that he's dug so deep below his Notting Hill villa that the scale of the underground extension has triggered commercial de...
Has the New Statesman found the ugliest London rental ever? 21 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
No sooner had the New Statesman linked to it, however, than it disappeared from Winkworth website. Technorati Tags: property, real estate...
Popularity tax boss to join board of popular estate agency 21 Aug 2013 | 02:03 pm
Sky News report that Ian Barlow, lead non-executive director of popular government tax overseers HM Revenue & Customs will be joining the board of popular estate agency firm Foxtons, as it plans an im...
Foxtons springs a leak? 20 Aug 2013 | 10:57 pm
A list of around 10,000 names and passwords is apparently doing the rounds, headed "part 1" of a leak of registered users of the Foxtons websites, after an unconfirmed hacking attack. Users are advise...
London market hit by summer lull 20 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Asking prices fell by 2.8% July-to-August according to Rightmove, with fewer deals done, as the good weather and traditional holiday season took its toll on the market. Annually, Greater London asking...
Monday morning linkage - traumatic viewings 19 Aug 2013 | 02:13 pm
London prices have another 40% in them in next five years, according to surveyors [Sunday Times]Traumatic viewings… the worst things estate agents have ever had to see [Daily Telegraph]More high-level...
Tax and the cost of moving 16 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
… the simplest tax avoidance strategy out there. You don’t need to hire an expensive lawyer or a crafty accountant: just stay put. You would not avoid any more tax if you hid your house with camouflag...
Meet your new landlord, they're your insurer too 15 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Legal & General dipped a toe in the property sector last March, when it bought almost 50% of house builder Cala. Now, it's announced it's interested in a significant build-to-rent project, as part of ...
