Most certainly at an auction. I read with a wry smile of the challenge of Mr Mehmet Koch whose most recent venture into property acquisition was reported in many of this weeks' papers. The aforementioned Mr Koch (stop smirking at the back), recently attended an auction and purchased a property located in Finsbury Park, in the process parting with £450,000 cash. This was done without having...
June 2013
Tuesday's Today programme on Radio 4 featured a gentleman from the Building Society Association to talk about the latest BSA report and how it reflected the current housing market. It was interesting to hear that mortgage transaction levels are increasing but I was slightly concerned that the phrases of, "the worst is over" and "confidence is back" were used in conjunction with the Help-To-Buy Scheme. ...
It will come as no surprise to our regular followers that yet again Cheshire and Co have their finger on the pulse of the media. By that I mean that en route to an appointment yesterday I was listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2. The lead item was the malfeasance of letting agents; primarily the various fees charged to tenants, that incidentally have been banned in Scotland. The housing...
The power and reach of the internet and the world wide web knows no bounds. For that we have to thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Just imagine being introduced to a gentleman at The Priory Hotel (the go-to place for the movers and shakers of Monmouthshire) and asking what he does for a living, to receive the reply, "I invented the world wide web". Oh. "This week, according to Rightmove, I'm Cwmbran's...
