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- each day, the Rat and Mouse sifts through scores of daily London property stories so its readers don't have to. The most interesting, newsworthy and important, along with exclusive tips (sent to tips@theRatandMouse.co.uk) appear on the website.

- the Rat and Mouse received more than six million hits in 2007, and serves more than four thousand page impressions a day. Its reach includes home sellers and buyers, the industry itself and an important and informed media readership, who regularly consult the Rat and Mouse when looking for interviewees.

If you’re a real property gossip addict, there’s a site which will become the centre of your life: www.theratandmouse.co.uk... its wealth of intelligence and curtain-twitch information about London property stuff makes it a snooper’s must see. (Financial Times)

- The Rat and Mouse has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph, quoted in the Guardian, the Times and the Financial Times, by the BBC (online and on the radio) and Bloomberg, and it's been consulted by ITN.

- The Rat and Mouse is one of the very few British blogs to be quoted and linked to by America's powerhouse blog networks (including New York's Curbed and Gridskipper, of Gawker Media-fame).

- The Rat and Mouse was named one of the world's top five property/construction-related blogs by Building magazine and one of the world's top 50 business blog by the Times newspaper.

- The Rat and Mouse syndicates a branded column to The Resident, extending its reach to a further 60,000 homes a month, and a weekly column to Citywire.co.uk, one of the financial world's most respected news sources.

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