Buyers Billboard: Helping London Home Sellers Find Buyers
New site helps house sellers find buyers and gives buyers more choice. (Sponsored post)
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Affordable Housing Plans For Mile End And Newham Slums
A community trust hopes to win their bid for St Clement’s hospital building in Mile End, while the Independent uncovers “super-shed” slums.
Council Tenant Faces Eviction Over Riot Claims
Charged. Not convicted. Evicted.
Suburbia Week On Exploring 20th Century London
A retro audio slideshow tells you about 1930s suburban London.
London Landlords Quids In?
By szen-volta If you’ve recently moved as a tenant this news won’t surprise you: rents in the capital have risen continuously since January. Our own experience on the rental market recently confirmed this. Decent two bed properties with outside space were described as “gold dust” …
New Images Of Olympic Park Revealed
In addition to yesterday’s announcement that the Olympic Park will be named after Queen Elizabeth, the Olympic Park Legacy Company has also released a number of images showing how the park will be redesigned once the Games have concluded. Further details should be available here, …
Guide For Designing London Homes Published
Photo / spacekadet In a city where garden sheds are advertised as studio flats, the just-published London Housing Design Guide is a welcome document. Kieran Long has an excellent report in the Standard, but the main attraction is the introduction of minimum floor areas for …
East London Home Builders Celebrate Another Olympic Bonanza
Waltham Cross’ finest, Telford Homes report a surge in the East London housing market thanks to the 2012 Olympic Project, and their share price has bounced almost 14% due to a recovery in prices in east London. As anyone who has driven along the A12 …
Brunswick Centre Flats Prone To Flooding
Residents in some of the flats within the Grade II-listed Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury say that their homes are damp and flood-prone, despite an extensive makeover that was completed just four years ago. The £24 million refurbishment by Levitt Bernstein in 2006 involved replacing the …
‘London Rents Map’ Website Launched
Photo / Greything A website backed by the Mayor and the London Assembly, showing the average cost of renting a property across the city, has been launched. Via a pleasingly simple interface — no preponderance of drop down menus and radio buttons here, just bash …
Westminster Council Helps You Save
Westminster Council have done some maths and realised it’s virtually impossible for anyone ‘normal’ to live in the borough and save enough to ever be able to buy your own place. They’ve calculated you’d need to earn at least £65k to buy, but even if …
