Just when you thought there could be no more depressing London property stories and just as you were beginning to pray that lazy journalists couldn’t come up with any more contrived Olympics-related crap, along comes: First time buyers will not win housing gold until London …
The US is topping the list of ‘rogue states’ who have refused to pay the congestion charge over the past six months. London is apparently behind the fact that house prices just rose by 0.6 per cent, the highest monthly increase since May 2004. Summer …
Longtime readers may remember the news from back in February about how our bus drivers were going to be trained like fighter pilots (don’t click the link – it shows how bad our Photoshop skills used to be). Here’s an update. Sort of. Trainee bus …
Ah, the property market. Very difficult for first-time buyers… Slump in house prices… Yadda, yadda and, indeed, yadda. It’s the conversational crutch that so often helps us get from perfunctory smalltalk to a meaningful, if repetitious, conversation. So if you find yourself sipping pinot amongst …
“Green army to halt weed invasion,” runs the BBC headline, designed to fire the imagination if nothing else. The Evening Standard is, as ever, far more restrained and less alarmist: “BLUEBELLS FACE DEATH FROM GIANT KILLER WEED,” it howls. Poor show for not being able …
Not sure what to do this weekend but at least know you want to indulge your voyeuristic streak? Why not go peering into the windows of really rich people’s houses? Assuming of course that you’re not really rich yourself, which if you are, why not …
Nothing is more likely to set the dinner party conversation in London aflame than speculation on the direction of house prices. So the latest report from Nationwide that house prices, er, nationwide have fallen for the first time in three years, plus a warning from …
Picture the scene. There you are, a happy father with your “life-partner” and two pre-school children. You manage to get a mortgage on a terraced house in NW5, which the estate agents call “Gospel Oak borders” but your neighbours call Kentish Town. It’s not quite …
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