Along with the 'New Year, New Me' bollocks brigade (think Davina, Louise Redknapp et al), comes the 'New Year, New (read 'recycled') predictions for the housing market'. Mmmm. Pythia-the high priestess of the temple of Apollo at Delphi-better known as the Oracle of Delphi, a little like myself-the Oracle of Cwmbran-has been surpassed in her ability to predict the future by many 'experts'of the property...
2017
The past few months have served as a reminder of what a results driven world we now live in; or at least what people perceive to be the'right' or indeed, 'wrong' result. This is accompanied by the regression of many adults to toddler status where on not getting the result they believe to be 'right' (read, the result that they want), they will scweam and scweam until they are sick. This is usually done...
Well a fairly eventful week on a number of fronts, not least that of Ms Mordaunt, our new international development secretary (I now await my admiration of her.. appointment in the cabinet reshuffle to be met with hysterics by the sisterhood). Priti is out having come over all Tony-I-can-fix-the-problems-of-the-world-in-my-next-available-diary-slot/holiday-for a price-Blair, there doesn't appear to be...
...Part 1. Last week in Wales, a major news item almost slipped under the radar and certain parties were pretty close to buttock clenching, "We got away with that one" territory. Except they didn't. If one casts one's mind back to pre-Nadiya Strictly Come Prancing (sorry, Flavia, you had your chance, you're history), one might recall that the Welsh Assembly (WA) effected that stamp duty land tax was to be...
It was with a teary eye that I bid farewell to Tatiana and her bikini-that clearly was based on the " how little material will not get me arrested for indecency?" school of fashion. As I handed Svetlana what was left of my bottle of Ambre Solaire, I assumed a stiff... upper lip, you filthy-minded lot and cast my mind to matters current in the world of buying, selling and renting property. Reported across...
All through my career potential landlords have always started a meeting with the same 2 questions How much rent can you get for my property? How much will you charge me? These are the last two questions a potential landlord should ask. Let me show you the seven questions you should ask when considering a new letting agent. What redress scheme are you a member of? How many properties do you manage...
Or not, if Saturday's article in the Daily Telegraph is to be believed. Penned by Ms Amy Willis it shrieked the headline, "Only the agent wins" with an indignation befitting a die hard Corbynista at the forthcoming annual party conference (definitely one for The Chesh's diary). The first paragraph reported how as agents we are chortling among us ourselves that our main gig is no longer making money from...
So millions of us stayed up to listen or watch the big event in Las Vegas last night: ‘Money’ Mayweather v the Irish fella, who if the rules of pugilism weren’t being followed would probably rip you limb from limb in the time it takes to say “that’s a nice tattoo”. The build up to this money spinner that looks likely to surpass the $600m earner of Mayweather v Pacqiao in 2015 seems to have been...
Geoffrey, George, Zippy and Bungle. A disparate bunch (was anyone else intensely irritated by that bloody bear? With his hand-wringing wetness, one just knew that he would be a sandal-wearing, bearded, lib dem voting drip). The gang greeted us five times a week with the cheery, "All above the streets and houses". Very apposite this week as many in the business of selling streets and houses got very...
Back in the day when I got my first job in estate agency some 40 years ago, (I know, I know, Dorian Gray has nothing on me), my old boss used to tell me to ensure that the details that I was dong that day should be the best set that I had ever produced. Unless, I had the right house in the right street at the right price; then he advised the minimalist approach of "House for Sale" and leave it at that. It...
