The Junior Apprentice house valued at £3.1m

For those of you who haven’t watched or heard of the BBC One programme Junior Apprentice (Wednesday nights), essentially it’s the same format as its older brother (The Apprentice), where two teams compete in different challenges and one member of the losing team ends up on the receiving end of Siralun’s “You’re fired!”. However [...]

And Around We Go

The property market is like Groundhog Day without the gags. It’s an eternal, infernal cycle where people buy piles of bricks and mortar, either to live in or to charge others for the privilege. The value of these bricks subsequently soars off into the troposphere, or plummets to the very centre of earth’s molten core. [...]

HIPS SUSPENDED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

Following on from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats releasing their ‘Coalition Agreement’ document on 12th May which confirmed, under the Environment section (pt 6), that “Home Information Packs (HIPs) are to be scrapped and Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) retained” mass confusion set in and home owners, agents, Lawyers and HIP providers each reacted in their own way [...]

Zoopla.co.uk Property Rich List 2010

The Zoopla.co.uk Property Rich List 2010 lifts the lid on the most exclusive places in the country to live. The past 12 months has seen house prices in the leading areas of the country rebound at a far faster rate than the average, contributing to a widening of the North-South divide. Here are some of [...]

Girls and Boys.

My, but aren’t we modern? Men and women now live together when in previous less enlightened times they would have been forced to marry by the league of decency at a mass ceremony like the moonies. Even so, some flatshare ads specify the sex of the tenant, and some rented households are still single gender. [...]

Jamie Oliver’s old pukka pad is for sale

Image taken from Jamieoliver.com Fancy yourself as a bit of a chef? Got a spare £1,195,000? Well the Naked Chef’s (aka Jamie Oliver) old pad is for sale. Remember when he first graced our TV’s in ’98/’99? Well this is where the Naked Chef series was filmed. It’s a stunning architect-designed three bedroomed house and [...]

CONFIRMATION: Grant Shapps Housing Minister

Grant Shapps, the Conservatives’ former shadow housing minister,  has confirmed, via his twitter page last night, that he has been appointed Minister of State for Housing. It is understood that the role no longer has Cabinet status and therefore, unlike his Labour predecessor, he will not attend Cabinet meetings. Is this, coupled with the time it [...]

West Hampstead Letting Agents

There are a number of reputable letting agents in West Hampstead, who deal mainly in letting apartments (studio to 2 bedroom) rather than rooms.

The first to mention is Paramount Properties (http://www.paramountproperties.co.uk) of 150 West End Lane West Hampstead London, NW6 1SD, who were established as an independent London estate and lettings agency in [...]

CONFIRMATION: HIPs to be scrapped

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have released a ‘Coalition Agreement’ document setting out the what has been reached between the two parties on a range of issues. In the document the following is buried towards the end under the Environment section pt 6 – a confirmation that Home Information Packs (HIPs) are to be scrapped [...]

West Hampstead Studios

West Hampstead Studios are the cheapest way to rent in the area without having to share a communal area with other people. Studio apartments are flats where the main living area is also used as the bedroom, thus the entire flat consists of a reception area and a separate toilet (and sometimes the kitchen [...]