Renewal Time (Again…)

I am being quieter than Little Miss Q Quiet of the Quietland Quiets (who has a GCSE in Being Really Quiet.) I do not make a sound. I am in hiding. I remain deathly pale so as to blend in with the brilliant paint on my walls. The fact is, I am playing a [...]

Cheryl and Ashley could lose £302,463 on Hurtmore House

Girls Aloud singer, Cheryl Cole, who was recently voted the nations second favourite celebrity neighbour in the annual Zoopla.co.uk Celebrity Neighbour Survey, yesterday announced she is separating from her husband, England and Chelsea football player Ashley Cole. The Girls Aloud singer and X-Factor judge returned to the UK yesterday from a trip to Los Angeles where [...]

Guest Blog: 8 reasons to use an estate agent

Recently there has been a lot of online and offline column inches dedicated to privately selling your property. Only last week we saw the OFT come out and suggest consumers consider “private seller platforms”. We asked Steve Hatch, a director at North London estate agency Castles, who is passionate about this topic, to guest blog for [...]

Zoopla.co.uk recognised as one of the UK’s smartest businesses

We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’ by a judging panel including BBC’s Dragons Den Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch. The Smarta 100 is the ultimate business accolade, recognizing the UK’s smartest entrepreneurial businesses. During the selection process Smarta.com says [...]

How LIVE property auctions on Zoopla.co.uk work

As we write, there are less than 4 days till our first LIVE auction. Traditionally auctions have been for property investors and developers. However our auctions are designed for everyone including buyers, sellers and agents. Home hunters can now search properties for sale several weeks in advance at Zoopla.co.uk/auctions, arrange viewings with the relevant estate agents and [...]

The Property Pixies Are Here To Save Us!

I believe in the property pixies, and so should you. If we ever stop believing in the property pixies, then they will die, and we renters mustn’t let that happen.The property pixies operate secretly at night, repairing roofs, negotiating with malevolent landlords intent on evicting blameless tenants on a whim. The property pixies are marvellous: [...]

Best and Worst Celebrity Neighbours Revealed

When it comes to the value of your home, celebrity neighbours can both add to and detract from property values in a neighbourhood. Our 2010 Celebrity Neighbour Survey makes it clear who would be welcomed and who wouldn’t. Prolific twitterer and ‘national treasure’ Stephen Fry, who lives in West Hampstead, London where the average value [...]

Forget the iPad, what about the WAGPad?

With all the rumours, revalations and speculation surrounding a certain Premiership footballer right now, we thought we’d take a look at some of the WAGPads available for sale in Oxshott, Surrey. Oxshott, Surrey, home to England and Chelsea footballer, John Terry and others. “Oxshott, a leafy, pretty village in one of the richer parts of Surrey. [...]

Prizewinning…

Hello everyone!I am honoured to have won the Users Best Blog Prize in The Prime Location Property blog awards. It won’t change me, or go to my head. I will remain the same old grounded, ordinary, angry, pissed-off-at letting-agents-blogger that I’ve always been…http://www.primelocation.com/news/2009-primelocation-blog-awards/Thanks!

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