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Thu
02
Feb

20120202michigan

In bubble-hit Michigan, beautiful house of the future, as the future looked in 1971 [Curbed]
The big bribe, £1,000 each for homeowners to allow high speed rail contractors onto property [Daily Telegraph]
Shapps' state-backed 95% mortgage scheme... the details [Guardian]
20 great Matt cartoons about property [Daily Telegraph]

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Mon
30
Jan

Halifax: cheaper to buy than to rent [Guardian]
Return of the 95% mortgage [Guardian]
Vincent Tchenguiz throws entire portfolio onto market [Daily Mail]
Is Scarlett Johansson property shopping in London? (Truth Dive]

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Fri
27
Jan

Expect mortgage rate volatility [BBC]
Elephant & Castle plans... approval at last? [Homes & Property]
How to buy a London bolthole [Country Life]
New residential property fun to provide bridging loans to rich London buyers [Citywire]

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Wed
25
Jan

Seven-homes Huhne adds to property portfolio [Daily Mail]
The 3.99% ten year fixed rate mortgage {Daily Telegraph]
Property prices may do nothing [Investors Chronicle]
On the benefits of let-to-let [Daily Mail]

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Wed
18
Jan

How estate agents can cope with review websites [The Modern Estate Agent]
On Cripplegate [Historical Trinkets]
Government figures show London prices still 3.2% up on the year, as of November [This Is Money]
London 2012: it's going to be rubbish [Independent]
Shed on outskirts of London: £450 a month[Daily Mail]

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Tue
10
Jan

Fewer surveyors seeing house price falls [Citywire]
RSC and a flatpack theatre [Guardian]
The full facts on housing benefit abuse [FullFact.org]
Payday loan pain [Sun]

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Mon
09
Jan

Unexpected stance on right-to-buy in the Guardian [Guardian]
Less unexpected stance on "housing benefit gravy train" in the Daily Mail [Daily Mail]
Savills consolidates [Target Jobs]
A landlord case study [FT]
Real students and fake landlords [Independent]

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Fri
06
Jan

Kate and William's security renovations available to view by anyone with too much time on their hands [Telegraph]
Homeownership unlikely to be more than a dream for most young people in 2012 [Reuters]
London house prices, the China syndrome [Citywire]
Mortgage rationing to get worse [BBC]
Hackney's Pembury Estate gets solar panelling [Evening Standard]

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Tue
03
Jan

The Shard... ill-concieved tribute to Mammon? [Guardian]
Lowly Falkirk beats London on house price gains [Scotsman]
Hotspots 2012 [Yahoo!]
Bankers to bolster popularity by suing over small bonuses [Telegraph]
In Ireland... house prices 50% off boom [Yahoo!]

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Tue
20
Dec

Santa-safe chimney designed and tested in Cotswolds [London News]
Top 10 property trends 2011 [Telegraph]
Time to switch to a fixed-rate? [Money Week]
First-time buyers regret it [Evening Standard]
Not the bloody mansion tax again? [Evening Standard]

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Mon
19
Dec

Second-steppers stuck [Guardian]
Buying cheaper than renting in 94% of UK towns [Zoopla]
Check your Euro mortgage [Independent on Sunday]
Turkeys don't foresee Christmas [NAEA]

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Wed
14
Dec

Renting - world's most expensive cities [Daily Telegraph]
Livingstone hints at "Living Rent" rent control... but does he have the power to implement it? [BBC]
Bangladeshis leaving London to return home [BBC]
Prime central London property up 8% in 2011, according to Cluttons [FT Advisor]
Where the London footballers iive [FindaProperty]
Incoming celebrity alert: lovely Kelly Rowland... maybe [Daily Mail]

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Mon
12
Dec

Noel Edmunds stung for £1m after property deal dispute... no house party [Daily Mail]
Uk's most remote home for sale [Daily Telegraph]
Reading woman sees lounge window "speared" by estate agent pole [Get Reading]
Apparently London's super-rich aren't above renting out their homes when they're away {Independent]

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Fri
09
Dec

Ten property hotspots based on travel improvements [Daily Telegraph]
Pigeon-lovers threatened with council house eviction [Evening Standard]
Congo ambassador's home squatted [Ham & High]
Mortgage fraud way up [Daily Telegraph, via Yahoo News]
Distressing bargains [Daily Mail]
Fall in first-time buyer loans [Guardian]

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Tue
06
Dec

Brits keep their faith in property [Daily Mail]
Clever people are getting on their bikes [BBC]
Woman trades Diana Ross's former home for minivan [Curbed]
DTZ calls in administrators [Daily Telegraph]
Olympics gold rush for landlords [Rentman]

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Tue
29
Nov

Against the grain, the Nationwide index shows positive growth in November (0.4%, the same as in October) and across the last twelve months (1.6%). There's little cheer in the press release, though, with only poor supply holding up prices, activity way down and serious concerns about the outlook as we head into 2012.

Many of the factors that underpin the demand for homes have deteriorated further in recent months. For example, the UK economy lost almost 200,000 jobs in the three months to September – similar to the pace of job losses seen during the depths of the 2008 recession. At the same time, wage growth slowed to 1.7% - less than half the pace of inflation over the same period.

Download your own pdf of the actual report here.

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Mon
28
Nov

Irish property bargains [Independent on Sunday]
Spiteful tenant almost ordered to hand over Red Bull and Doritos in compensation [Property Hawk]
One Hyde Park: nine pay council tax [Guardian]
Candy brothers go east [Reuters]
Olympic effect spreads to south coast [Remortgage.com]

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Wed
23
Nov

When did "social" turn into "affordable"? [Guardian]
Hollywood love nest in London [Film-News.co.uk]
Poles head home for better life [Google News]
Ultra-rich still prefer London [Campden]
Property hotspots have most free schools [Relocate Magazine]

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Mon
21
Nov

The historical significance of Sex Pistols graffiti [Yorkshire Post]
Regents Park home sold for £120m? [Times of India]
St Paul's protestors accused of "defecation" [Guardian]
City promotion... Knight Frank reveals the new prime [CPI Financial]

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Fri
18
Nov

20111118dress desk

Hammersmith & Fulham Council's shared ownership scheme success [24dash]
Barratt reports rising new-build prices [Yorkshire Post]
Tenants gone bad [Daily Mail]
The dress that doubles as a desk [Curbed]

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Wed
16
Nov

Amy Winehouse haunts Pete Doherty's London home [ContactMusic]
London residential to hit £10,000 per square foot in four years [LondonLovesBusiness]
Rents to continue outstripping prices [Property Wire]
90% would move abroad for better prospects [Yahoo News]
Market report: Government figures show prices falling outside London [BBC]

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Fri
11
Nov

Stand out from the crowd with night photography listings [The Modern Estate Agent]
Nutty landlord fries tenant with 240v boobytrap [Daily Mail] 
Nano House [Fast Co Design]
Demand for ads up on Rightmove [ShareCast]
"Prices rise, activity falls": Acadametrics [Bloomberg]

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Wed
09
Nov

London home values and the shrinking City [Property Talk Live]
In China: buy a house, get a BMW thrown in for free [FT]
Builders praise FirstBuy [Telegraph]
Steve Jobs property legacy [Zillow Blog]

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Mon
07
Nov

Village for sale: yours for £6.5m [Sunday Telegraph]
GoogleEarth's London... 1909 [Daily Mail]
Don't feel sorry for the estate agents [Guardian]
The battle for rentals [Daily Mail]
Marsh & Parsons is changing owners [Irish Times]

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Fri
04
Nov

Top estate agent quits NAEA in protest [Estate Agent Today]
Complete by Christmas [Telegraph]
Arsonist hits Essex estate agency, goes on the run [The Negotiator]
GoogleMaps fees from January [Daily Mail]

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Thu
03
Nov

20111103smiler

Bizarre Hugh Grant property purchase for girlfriend and baby [Daily Mail]
Prime Manchester outpaces Prime London [Primelocation blog]
Foster's Thames Estuary Airport plans [Londonist]
It's a smiler [Rightmove, pictured]

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Mon
31
Oct

20111031creepiest

On the ground in China, the credit crisis bites [Peninsula Qatar]
Greeks could face power cuts if they don't pay property tax [Observer]
Second homes council tax discounts could be cut [BBC]
Living between town and country: welcome the "manny" [Daily Telegraph]
On Halloween.... America's creepiest houses [Curbed, and pictured]
Mandelson, property-rich socialilst [Mail on Sunday]

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Wed
26
Oct

Inside the 2012 athletes' flats [Daily Mail]
Will Prince Charles move house? [BBC]
Savings pegged to house prices [Citywire]
Rents drive students east [Hurford Salvi Carr blog]
Eight daft answers to the housing crisis [BBC]

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Mon
24
Oct

Brit MEP clashes with Spain's housing minister over expat property problems [Euro Weekly News]
The life of a high-end buying agent [FT]
Big Yellow make big Olympic rentals predictions... but have they factored in local authorities' short-term letting laws? [Press Association]

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Fri
21
Oct

Wapping allotments a step closer [Londonist]
Landlords' boom = tenants' bust [Telegraph]
**** off oldies! [Evening Standard]
Olly Murs... at home in Essex [Monsters & Critics]
Fancy treehouses [Daily Mail]

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Tue
18
Oct

20111018prisoin

What an estate agent's "Welcome" hamper bag looks like [Flickr]
"Soon the meadow would be covered in a new estate of executive homes... [Daily Telegraph]
Design flair: Europe's chicest prison accommodation [above, Curbed]

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Mon
17
Oct

Protests and the property market [Money Week]
Renting out for the Olympics... not that easy [Daily Mail]
Mayfair... the residential heart of London [Gulf News]
Have you washed your hands? [BBC]
It's great being poor [Daily Telegraph]

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Thu
13
Oct

Government figures show prices on the decline [Stockmarketwire]
Nice. But it needs £10m spending on it [Daily Mail]
A crash so slow, we won't even notice [Daily Mail]
$33.5m price drop [Daily Mail]

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Mon
10
Oct

Is the real crash finally just around the corner? [Observer]
Man smashes into Boris' gate, shock makes him talk like proper Cockney [Daily Telegraph]
Frustrated by social housing waiting list, Croydon family of five move into double-decker bus [Daily Mail]
Cornwall council offers owners of empty homes offer they can't refuse [Observer]

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Fri
07
Oct

How to get on with your tenants [Daily Telegraph]
Prepare for cheapest loans ever [Daily Express]
How to deal with squatters [Guardian]
Taxing luck [Money Week]

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Wed
05
Oct

Squatting, it's about politics, not property [Daily Mail]
On property shopping in Chelsea [Independent]
Construction stagnation [BBC]
Struggling to pay the rent [HouseLadder]
First-time buyers? What's the fuss about? [Independent]
On the bears at Money Week [Planet Property]

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Thu
29
Sep

Citizen reporter on squatting in Ilford [Demotix]
Letting your home for the Olympics [Guardian]
Is buying really cheaper than renting? [Money Week]
Thieves steal driveway [The London News]
Posh Wendy houses [Daily Telegraph] 
Is this London's weirdest street name? [Londonist]
Over-50s rely on property to pay for retirement [Daily Mail]

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Wed
28
Sep

Estate agents consolodate [Evening Standard]
The £300,000 gold leaf kitchen [Daily Mail]
Rupert Murdoch discounts Long Island estate by 39% [MSN Money]
A landlord waits for an eviction [Property Hawk]

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Tue
27
Sep

No Metropolitan Line for Willesden Green [Harrow Observer]
Karl Marx and London [Business Standard]
Tamara Ecclestone's doggy spa [Hello Magazine]
Pucker up - the Tories get close to the developers [Daily Telegraph]

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Fri
23
Sep

London rents - highest in the world [Planet Property]
Mmm... Hobbit house looks cosy [Daily Mail]
Reuters poll suggests another 4% still to go from house prices [Reuters]
Will sell house for money [Daily Mail]

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Wed
21
Sep

20110921castle

Medieval castle fire sale [SmartMoney, via Curbed]
The battle over building [Independent on Sunday]
Italian parents turn to eviction to get adult son out of family home [BBC]

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Mon
19
Sep

20110919sinatra

William/Kate install £1m security system [The London News]
Kevin McCloud's most embarrassing TV moment [Primelocation blog]
Frank Sinatra's former LA home for sale [pictured, link to particulars, via Curbed]

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Fri
16
Sep

London couple sell home to finance film [Sky News]
Home ownership "passé" [Macleans]
Squatters' rights protesters target Ken Clarke's home [Guardian]
In America... Silicon Valley house prices and the first tech bust [Reuters]

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Mon
12
Sep

Hilarious and embarrassing email reveals unholy alliance between the builders and the minister [Daily Telegraph]
No truth in rumours that Putin's property shopping in London [Sunday Express]
Squatters? Shoot them [Daily Mail] 
Tamara's £1m crystal bath [Daily Star]

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Fri
09
Sep

Posh paints - worth it? [Primelocation blog]
LSL/Acadametrics index shows slight improvement for August, but prices way down overall [Guardian]
A call to criminalise squatting [Evening Standard]
London hotspots property prices to double by 2016 [Reuters]

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Wed
07
Sep

Squatters with hearts of gold [Metro]
In the US - property as a hedge for gold [Money Week]
London's property bubble... fingers in ears [Daily Telegraph]
Negative equity could still be a significant problem [FT]
UK house prices, measured in gold [Money Week]

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Mon
05
Sep

20110905ugly chair

Countrywide unloads Bairstow Eves [Estate Agent Today]
Aldermore launches 100% mortgage [This Is Money]
American lawyers come after British lenders [Daily Mail]
Price cuts hit second homes market [FT]
Millbank's Riverwalk House earmarked for residential development [Property Week]
Anti-stress chair... so ugly it's stressing me out [Pure Contemporary]

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Fri
26
Aug

Baby-boomers... thanks for the property obsession [Evening Standard]
London rents to continue rising until Christmas [Property Talk Live]
German prefabs... where the quality is [Bloomberg]
An appreciation of Gaddafi's interior design flair [Guardian]

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Thu
18
Aug

The towns with the most £1m homes... a top 100 [Primelocation blog]
Kings Cross Hotel... bought by a US investment company [Evening Standard]
Posh artists' pads [Curbed]
A history of the London riot tradition [Spectator]
MPC unanimous on rate hold [BBC]

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Thu
21
Jul

20110721Seventies

The 70s colour palette... loving it [Apartment Therapy]
Letting agents warned by OFT on rental contracts [Independent]
Keep off the grass [Daily Mail]
House Historian Melanie Backe-Hansen has a book out [The House Historian]

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Wed
20
Jul

Double dip warnings [Estate Agent Today]
Richard Branson turns landlord, for £11,000 a night [Telegraph]
FTBs, ousted by BTLs [This is Money]
Docklands locations added to Monopoly board [The Docklands]

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Tue
12
Jul

At home with Andy Coulson [Primelocation blog]
International house price indicators [Economist]
Transaction levels... where the crash is [This Is Money]
Mates' mortgages: "ludicrous" [Money Week]
Property market and the mini ice age [Daily Mail]

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Wed
06
Jul

Don't annoy this man [Property Hawk]
A guide to rock star pads [Telegraph]
Former Inside Track members get legal [Daily Mail]
Your home and the Olympics [Citywire]

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Tue
05
Jul

20110705peeing reveller

Grant Shapps urges "mates' mortgages" [Daily Mail]
But "partnership mortgage" means something else [Money Week]
Hoxton resident takes issue with peeing revellers [Asylum]
Persimmon builds fewer homes in first half of year [Guardian]

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Fri
01
Jul

20110701ugly

The Kirstie and Phil iPhone app... there's a delete button for that [Guardian]
Ugly real estate photos [illustrated, Main St] 
Over-cautious lenders slow market [Citywire]
Police not welcome at Wanstead Flats [The London News]

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Thu
30
Jun

20110630BrandPerry

Has One Hyde Park become the world's most expensive ghost town? [Telegraph]
At home with Russell Brand and Katy Perry in LA [pictured above, Curbed]
Senior surveyor guilty of mortgage fraud [BBC]
Land Registry: London still bucking the trend [Guardian]
Rachel Weisz gives London home a makeover [Mirror]
The town hall listed on Ebay [pictured below, Planet Property]

20110630ebay

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Mon
27
Jun

Ringo Starr's Kenwood Park former home bulldozed [Primelocation blog]
South west London - hottest property market in UK [Evening Standard]
Witanhurst: a modern-day Xanadu [Daily Mail]
Don't let benefits shake-up turn London into a ghetto for the rich [Evening Standard]

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Tue
21
Jun

North Kensington residents furious at White City tower block plans [Evening Standard]
Sales "subdued" in May [BBC]
SOE spy flat comes to the market [Daily Mail]
London rough sleepers up 8% [BBC]
In the States: little homes [Curbed]

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Tue
14
Jun

In commercial, for sale: Hard-on Park [Reuters]
And in New York, for sale: Chagall's apartment [Curbed]
In France... plans to tax holiday homes [Independent]
Estate agents shift one property a week [Daily Mail] 
Does UK inflation emergency spell trouble for interest rates? [Money Marketing]

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Mon
13
Jun

Ye olde Highgate Fair [New York Times]
At home with Phil [Telegraph]
Britons leave London as foreign rich move in [Reuters]
William Pears Group and London property [Telegraph]

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Thu
09
Jun

Moving into your garden [Telegraph]
And wouldn't you if there were four crocs living in your semi? [Daily Mail]
The magic of anamorphic typography [Laughing Squid]
Those long-term fixes, the cost of certainty [Telegraph]

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Wed
08
Jun

In the US, dead cool: funeral chapel for rent [Chicago Curbed]
In the US, again, borrowers walk away from mortgages [CNN]
Controversial comparisons between UK property market and Spanish [Money Week]
The truth about inflation [Telegraph]
Thames houseboats [Homes & Property]
Estate agents... how to screw up your business using social networking [Simply Buiness Coaching]

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Mon
06
Jun

Central London - invaded [Primelocation blog]
Buy-to-let - it's a bonanza [Daily Mail]
William and Kate - on the move [Telegraph]
Britain's hippest street - not in London [Guardian]

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Tue
31
May

Secret plans for 95% mortgages? [Telegraph]
Institute suggests 90% cap [Bloomberg]
Hometrack index shows sharp May fall [Reuters]
The big switch to interest only [Telegraph] 
Not so funny for the 40-year-old property virgins [Independent on Sunday] 
Top end of London market booming thanks to foreign buyers [Bloomberg]

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Thu
26
May

Equity release: misunderstood... literally [Propertytalk Live]
Keeping property journalism relevant [Property News Hound]
FTBs want responsible lenders [Mortgage Strategy]
Jason Satham's selling in Hollywood [Daily Mail]
Inside Number 11 [Telegraph]

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Tue
24
May

Homeowners optimistic over five years [Property Talk Live]
Cool houseboat in Amsterdam [DigsDigs]
Seventies man: built a good house [Telegraph]
Has the BBC property boom hit Manchester? [Manchester Confidential]
Yuk! [Curbed]

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Fri
20
May

In America, Homer Simpson's on the move [the Real Estalker]
London's rents reach record high [City AM]
Muslim ordered to get out of town [Independent]
London's first-time buyers  don't expect to own home until 43 [This is Money]

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Wed
18
May

On the Tower Hamlets bid to become a city [diamond geezer]
Kirstie Allsopp's property portfolio [Primelocation blog]
Rachel Whiteread protests against "alien" Shoreditch tower plans [Evening Standard]
A fascinating look at St Giles' 18th Century slums [Independent]

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Mon
16
May

Toilet paper: over or under? [CNet]
Jude Law in peace talks with London neighbours [OK]
W1J5 - London's priciest postcode [Evening Standard]
Mail on Sunday hotspot map [Mail on Sunday]

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Thu
12
May

In the US, somebody really hates the mosque next door [Curbed]
Rogue hawk attacking posh pooches of Belgravia [Daily Mail]
Housing and branding [Guardian]
Expect house price falls [MSN]

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Wed
11
May

The threat of negative equity [This is Money]
Property: the "unexploded economic bomb" [MoneyWeek]
UK teenagers plan house purchase by 25 [Inside Housing]
Win a signed copy of deer-hunter Spencer's new book [Globrix]
Corruption pushes up property prices in Moscow [BBC]

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Fri
06
May

In the US: Facebook's Zuckerberg buys in Palo Alto [The Real Estalker]
Lloyd's 150,000 negative equity mortgages [Daily Mail]
Builders bullish [The Negotiator]
Emergency building necessary to save London from slums [Evening Standard]

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Tue
26
Apr

House building down [Independent]
Confidence down, too [This Is Money]
The valuation game [Citywire]
Time's 100 Most Influential... and their property [Curbed]
Ronnie Wood's £2m kicking in Chelsea [Sun]

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Wed
20
Apr

Dermot O'Leary buys big Primrose Hill mansion [Daily Mail]
And end to London's skyscraper madness [Bloomberg]
Interest rate rise unlikely before August [Citywire]
Nick Clegg returns house sale profits to the taxpayer [BBC]
Is it all over for the Portland Place sex parties [BBC]

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Mon
18
Apr

In NY: Sad images of Gatsby mansion demolition [Curbed]
Mosaic inventor selling Highgate home [Daily Mail]
One Hyde Park: almost £1bn so far [Evening Standard]
House prices to plummet by 25%, as Brits run out of money [This Is Money]
Medieval Italian village for sale: £485,000 [Telegraph]

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Fri
15
Apr

The big Irish property fire sale [Sky News]
Video of man sitting on world's most expensive toilet [Gizmodo]
Increase in family home purchases in West End [Property Mentor]
Singaporeans count of 1 in 10 purchases at top end of London property [Singapore Today]
Chris Moyles foils garden-grabbers [Evening Standard]

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Wed
13
Apr

Not just London... prime country market doing well, too [Independent]
Ozzy Osbourne might lose US home [MSN News]
Watch out - StreetSide's coming [BBC]
Mayor's new homes targets controversy [Evening Standard]

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Mon
11
Apr

20110411faces

How homeowners are paying to protect banks [Evening Standard]
Mansion tax? Forget it [Mortgage Strategy]
Houses with names sell quicker [Telegraph]
After the Hitler house... ten houses that look like faces [Curbed] 
Battle for Hanover Square listed building [BBC]

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Fri
08
Apr

Interview with Digital Property Group's head of content Nigel Lewis [Property Portal Watch]
Shelter "takes stock" of second homes [Shelter]
Take part in the fun RICS online survey and shape their digital future [RICS]
Lending up 8% in February [Mortgage Strategy]

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Mon
04
Apr

Property market's north-south divide worsens [Guardian]
Candy losses mount [Sunday Telegraph]
Landlords wary in post-benefits cut climate [BBC]
Spanish property crash, worse than you think [Guardian]
Shift Stamp Duty onus to vendors, says HSBC [Estate Agent Today]
America's smallest apartment [Mail on Sunday]

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Mon
28
Mar

In Blackpool, a tenant's revenge [Blackpool Gazette]
Posen downplays inflation risk [Reuters]
Take That's "Metric" Mark Owen sells Wandsworth house after "10 affairs"... vowing it's time to "start again" [New Magazine]
Why not buy in London? [Hong Kong Standard]

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Thu
24
Mar

Landlords: get the deposit... all of it [Landlord-Law Blog]
The Huf Haus [Telegraph]
Incoming celebrity alert... Kate Hudson [Winging It]
In America: portal wars [1000watt blog]
44% council tax rise doomsday plan for Wandsworth [Evening Standard]
Celebrity real estate cock-ups [NuWire Investor]

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Tue
22
Mar

Kensington £600m new apartment block [This Is London]
Northern Rock starts parcelling up and selling off debt... again [Peston's Picks]
Joe Absolom's on the move in Blackheath [Daily Mail]
Brits buy, Germans rent [Guardian]
Gazumping in the rental market [Daily Mail]

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Fri
18
Mar

Gaddafi house squatters claim attempts to buy them off [This Is London]
Bovey's back in the black, but unmoved by property [Express]
Lingerie, lingerie, lingerie... property advertising the Australian way [Newslite TV, pictured]
More supply spells trouble for house prices [Telegraph]

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Thu
17
Mar

How a gallows can add value [Curbed]
More from the US... Obama's big fine fun with the banks [Business Insider]
Overseas buyers pick off Irish property [Irish Times]
Germany, where renting is right [Guardian]

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Mon
14
Mar

The big gamble on SVR mortgages [Telegraph]
Ten ways to devalue your home [lovemoney.com]
Devon's most unpopular resident can't sell her home [Prime]
The homes of the world's ten richest [Curbed]
Gazumping back in London [Introducer Today]

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Fri
11
Mar

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Ken_Deirdre2.0 [FindaProperty]
PlanetProperty discovers lovely Victorian water tower ripe for conversion (pity it's in Norfolk) [PlanetProperty]
TV porn property market to real property market = porn sex to real sex (apparently) [Guardian]
If these walls could talk... Jermaine Defoe's still trying to sell [Zoopla, and pictured]

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Wed
09
Mar

Kubrik, and English country houses [Curbed]
Interest rates... it's later than you think [Money Week]
Wimbledon squatter promise to be good neighbours [This Is Local London]
Landlords in for nasty surprise [Money Week]
Ian Duncan Smith on why property might not pay for your retirement [Evening Standard]

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Mon
07
Mar

Turning real estate search on its head [Future of Real Estate Marketing]
Financial crises and property busts [The Economist]
Standards in private rental sector have some way to go [Observer]
Feckless and ruthless - the mortgage industry [Daily Mail]
Miserable year in store for property market [Independent]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
04
Mar

Flintoff takes big property hit [This is Money]
Letting agents on the make [Daily Mail]
The Charlie Sheen mural... order it now [Curbed]
Profit from the Royal Wedding by renting out your house [This is Money]
Bricks and slaughter... the dangers of property [Economist]

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Tue
01
Mar

Banks accused of encouraging unethical gazumping on repos [FT]
The return of the sale-and-rent-back "scam" [Independent on Sunday]
Stamp Duty loopholes [Observer]
Land Registry: value of every type of property falling [BBC]
Top ten towns and the big property price moves [Citywire]

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Fri
25
Feb

The fox on the Shard [The London News]
The mortgage famine [Citywire]
The austerity timetable [FT]
In the US: are buyers really swayed by vendors' wealth-trappings? [Curbed]
Barratt abandons ftbs [Telegraph]
London's pockets of value [City AM]

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Mon
21
Feb

Rents up 11.5% in Prime London in 2010, expect a further 8% in 2011 [Telegraph]
Religious teacher jailed for mortgage fraud [Express]
Guzumping returns to London [FT]
Houses in eye of economic storm could fall 20% [Guardian]
Guy Ritchie squatters evicted [Telegraph]
Tories and their swimming pools [Sunday Mirror]
Superprime on the up [Bloomberg]
The bankers' bonus boost to London property [Guardian]

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Fri
18
Feb

How to buy a property with a friend [MoneySupermarket.com]
In the US: A plea to help stop Detroit from falling down [Curbed]
Landowners gives islanders Scottish island... as gift [Press & Journal]
Another look at the housing benefit cuts [Guardian]
Could the Mubaraks be hiding out in London? [Evening Standard]

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Thu
17
Feb

New bungalow for lottery scratchcard winners [24dash.com]
Nationwide's fixed rate deals creep up [Mortgage Strategy]
Where will William and Kate live? [ABC News]
The Northern Irish repo crisis [Belfast Telegraph]
Shoreditch... Celebrityville {PropertyTalk Live]

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Wed
16
Feb

Shapps's "Affordable Rent" programme - wolf in sheep's language [PropertyTalk Live]
Don't blame lending... house prices are the problem [Finance Markets]
Six reasons why an interest rate rise is necessary [Spectator]
Property and the Olympics factor [Independent]

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Tue
15
Feb

Jennifer Aniston's bedroom [Take Sunset]
In America... the problems are spreading [New York Times]
In Northern Ireland... landlady fined for hanging "no rent paid" sign on door [Belfast Telegraph]
CEBR turns bear [This is Money]
Young love, first homes, big sacrifices [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Tue
08
Feb

Masked robber hits north Dorset estate agents [Bournemouth Echo]
Debt towers [Observer]
They just can't get it up [Curbed]
Cash purchases the rage in London [Safestore.co.uk]
Low pound attracts Chinese to London property [Evening Standard]

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Fri
04
Feb

Where Rightmove stores your stuff [Rightmove blog]
On a prefab future [Independent]
The new Zoopla property archive [Zoopla blog]
April's going to be shit [Evening Standard]

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Thu
03
Feb

House prices... how much further will they fall? [Money Week]
Decoding archispeak [Curbed]
Recession? Nobody told London house prices [Evening Standard]
Cheryl Cole's planned move to London [PopDash]
The new crime map and house prices [Ealing Gazette]

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Mon
31
Jan

Jacqui Smith to profit from hilarious taxpayer-supplied porn debacle, with BBC presenting job [Telegraph]
Camden Council asks bonus bankers to chip on [Daily Mail]
Affordability... why having kids can limit your mortgage [Sunday Telegraph]
The negative equity mortgage [Sunday Express]
The rise of the prefab [BBC]

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Fri
28
Jan

Two bars and a karaoke machine... at home with Kate Moss [iol]
The financial magic that's the extension [Independent]
Moving house... hassle reduced [Independent]
Shout at your wife and you might end up homeless... it's the Daily Mail gone mad [Daily Mail]

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Wed
26
Jan

On giant mortgages [Citywire]
Is it buy-to-let time? [Daily Mail]
Dodgy insider-job housing officer spared jail [Evening Standard]
Localism Bill... transit camps [Guardian]
Tory peer in expenses fraud could face jail [Independent]

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Mon
24
Jan

Blackpool star bankrupt after property scam [Sun]
Church-goers asked to pay for £820,000 house for cleric [Telegraph]
Kate Moss on the move [Daily Mail]
MPC's Adam Posen concerned over lack of lending [Telegraph]
Buying a home together bigger commitment than marriage [This Is Money]

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Fri
21
Jan

One Hyde Park, some photos [Prime blog]
Rents begin to fall [Guardian]
Market paralysed as lending falls [Evening Standard]
Cashing in on your home without selling it [Independent]

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Thu
20
Jan

They like their guns in Wandsworth [This is Local London]
On the market for $28m; former owners: Elvis Presley, Zsa Zsa Gabor [Telegraph]
London property market shouldn't rely on City bonuses [Property Talk Live]
2011: it's all about lending [Property Showrooms]
Don't trust your tenants [Landlord-Law blog]

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Wed
19
Jan

Eight years in Spanish prison for Brit developers [Daily Mail]
Bike stand or allotment? Which is best? [Ham & High]
RICS members less bearish... blame the snow [BBC]

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Fri
14
Jan

Estate agents at war [Estate Agent Today]
Fix now, laugh later [Citywire]
Welsh council establishes estate agency, undercuts competition [Globrix]
The award-winning sunken mansion that's yet to be built [Manchester Evening News]
Are tenants from hell headed for the private sector? [Estate Agent Today]

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Tue
11
Jan

Dorset beach officially £1 [Yahoo]
Bears gather: warning house prices to deep below 2004 levels [Telegraph]
Could 2011 see 7% interest rates for low equity borrowers? [Daily Mail]
Location, location, location... property wealth gap widens [FT]

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Wed
05
Jan

London's Golden Triangle [Evening Standard]
The builders' dilemma [FT]
Who wants a flat above an offy? [Guardian]
London's star homes [FindaProperty]

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Wed
29
Dec

UK homeowners start to give a little back [Reuters]
Time travel in London... there's an app for that [Londonist]
Changes in Monopoly's streets in 75 years [Guardian]
Lakshmi Mittal's £15m Scottish building project [Daily Record]

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Tue
28
Dec

Why Roger Bootle's bearish [video] [Telegraph]
Market report - Hometrack, 6th consecutive monthly fall [MarketNews.com]
What to do about my noisy tenants? [upad]

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Fri
24
Dec

Five of the world's ugliest houses [Curbed]
House price surveys... who does what, when [Guardian]
Welsh council launches own estate agency [Estate Agent Today]
Do house prices need to half? [Investment & Business News]
Cheesegrater to continue [Mellersh & Harding blog]
Ten hotspots for 2011 [Independent]
Foreign buyers lift posh London homes market [Evening Standard]

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Mon
20
Dec

Oooh, clever interactive Property Week... we like [Property Week]
Playing Monopoly with the Candy Brothers [FT]
Are estate agents too stuffy for Twitter? [Property News Hound]
Former mortgage broker escapes industry, turns dominatrix, discovers Dr Jerkoff's strange bedside manner [Telegraph]

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Thu
16
Dec

48 new mortgage fraud cases opened by FSA in last six months [Money Marketing]
Burglers take a moment out to enjoy hot tub [BBC]
Squatters move into Limelight Club [This Is London]
Statistician calls for single house price index [Reuters]
Six million borrow to pay for Chistmas [Telegraph]

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Wed
15
Dec

CML warns on rising repossessions [BBC]
Apprentices Jamie Lester accused of brokering dodgy deals [Mirror]
Cheryl Cole buys London home near Simon Cowell [EntertainmentWise.com]
Two-thirds think 2011 is the right year to buy property [Telegraph]
Cost of renting soars [This Is Money]

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Tue
14
Dec

Confusing RICS report - basically house prices down, again [ITN]
The £700m service charge scandal [Daily Mail]
In Argentina: the squatters' land grab [Business Week]
Council start moving the poor out of London [BBC]
Comedian offends banker audience [Metro]
500,000 in negative equity [City AM}

 

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Fri
10
Dec

The market: less like flat, more like crash [MoneyWeek]
Or is it a case of bottoming out? [This Is Money]
£1.bbn of bankers bonuses heads for the property market [Bloomberg]
House prices "unlikely to plummet" [Express]
Property gold from Olympics [Telegraph]

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Wed
08
Dec

London v the rest of the country [The London Magazine]
Two-thirds are broker-sceptics [MortgageStrategy]
On Soho property [Winkworth blog]
One in ten homeowners over 75 still mortgages [This Is Money]

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Tue
07
Dec

Search engine optimisation for estate agents [The Modern Estate Agent]
On property in Covent Garden [Telegraph]
Duck and cover, the foreigners are invading [Daily Mail]
On the 2012 housing legacy [BBC]
Global house price rises slowing [Guardian]
MPs and their expenses [Metro]
Incoming celebrity alert... the Hoff [PopEater]
In the US... property prices may have peaked in 2005... forever [FundStrategy]

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Fri
03
Dec

It's a landlord's world [Property Talk Live]
New house purchasing taxes [W A Ellis]
Vendor finally forced to pay out after breaking sole agency clause in 2006 [Estate Agent Today]
Wandsworth to be test case council for housing reform [This Is Local London]
What the average house price will buy you around the UK [Telegraph]

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Wed
01
Dec

Why localism might be expensive [Daily Mail]
Go on... ban the boards [The Inside Edge]
Why house prices could fall another 20% [Telegraph]
The pressure's on Mervyn King [Guardian]
Aaron Johnson Primelocation [Prime]

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Mon
29
Nov

Believe the hype: second home ownership rockets in rural areas [National Housing Federation]
Regent's Park terraced street for sale [Telegraph]
Hometrack index: down [Bloomberg]
Mortgage approvals hit 8 month low [Business Week]

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Tue
23
Nov

Spice up your Google Places listing [The Modern Estate Agent]
The £120,000 a month rental [Prime Blog]
I'll keep on having babies 'til I get my council house [Daily Mail]
Low interest rates will save house prices [Independent]
Gross mortgage lending down to 2001 levels [FT Adviser] 
Dannii Minogue sells London home [Daily Mail]

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Fri
19
Nov

Cheaper to buy than rent [Estate Agent Today]
Support For Mortage Interest cut... the effects [BBC]
Lending stagnant in October [FT]
The oligarchs keep on property shopping in London [Independent]

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Wed
17
Nov

Buy-to-let's for suckers [MoneyWeek]
Bank split on rates [Mortgage Introducer]
Fee-free mortgage advice from Which? [Mortgage Introducer]
Five tech tools for estate agents [Future of Real Estate Marketing]
Could inflation rescue house prices? [Guardian]

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Fri
12
Nov

A buying agent's top turn-offs (the property variety) [Thebuyingagent's blog]
Gumtree rental scams [Independent]
Dress to impress [Daily Mail]
Against the odds, or lull before storm, repos at 2.5 year low [Reuters]

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Wed
10
Nov

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Get the Mad Men look [Telegraph]
University debt and house prices [Independent]
Forced to sell to pay for care [Daily Mail]
In Malibu: the Jumbo Jet recycled into a house [above] [shelterpop]
Troublemakers crash squatter party [This Is Local London]
On photography [The Modern Estate Agent]

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Mon
08
Nov

First time buyers keen; but skint [Assetz]
Government promises to squat on squatters [Walletpop] 
The brink of another London boom? [WhatHouse]
Future of the Land Registry? [Independent on Sunday]

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Fri
05
Nov

Development v skyline in Hammersmith [Fulham Chronicle]
Sleeper house, plus orgasmatron, for sale [Sun]
The modern home [Independent]

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Thu
04
Nov

Gordon Ramsay wants to sell his house... RBS says "no" [Bridging & Commercial]
Is the map-based property search dead? [Future of Real Estate Marketing]
Interest rates remain at record low for 20th month, and it's a no to more QE [BBC]
Redrow alarmed by mortgage squeeze [Evening Standard]
An estate agent dot TV [The Modern Estate Agent]

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Tue
02
Nov

Win a holiday chez Kirstie [Telegraph]
In debt and proud [Yahoo!]
A barn like no other [de zeen]
Scottish property hits new high [BBC]

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Wed
27
Oct

They call him Mr Debt-tastic [Daily Mail]
House prices and the Mortgage Market Review [lovemoney.com]
Government denies rumours of Housing Benefit reform rethink [BBC]
Enjoy the interest rates while you can [Yahoo]

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Mon
25
Oct

Chinese ready to pounce on UK property fire sale [Property Wire]
Landlord wins payout from surveyor who over-estimated rental income [MoneyMarketing]
First six months sees big rise in expensive house sales [housefund.co.uk]
Having a second home can be expensive [Property Wire]
Man shocked when surveyor values house at £1 [Daily Mail]
John Lennon's house gets blue plaque [BBC]
Welfare cuts will lead to London exodus [Daily Mail]
Katherine Jenkins' house to be new Apprentice pad [Wales Online]
What's happening to Brixton? [Observer}

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Thu
21
Oct

Camberwell squatters take advantage of holiday [NDTV]
The cuts and house prices [This is Money]
First time buyers and house prices [Evening Standard]
The Single Man house... for sale [Apartment Therapy]

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Tue
19
Oct

Good gazundering [Money Week]
Buckingham Palace... busy [Google News]
Three peers suspended after dodgy expenses claims [Guardian]
Boris squares up to Shapps on house prices [Evening Standard]

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Thu
14
Oct

Controversial Kew Bridge development launched [Hounslow Chronicle]
Killer Derrick Bird's home for sale [MSN News]
Third of parents give £10,000 help onto property ladder [Telegraph]
Counter-terrorism policeman denies Met property scam [Google News]

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Mon
11
Oct

Sellers are taking everything... including the kitchen sink (and the lawn) [Daily Mail]
Gazudering's back [This is Money]
Madonna wants to be a (legal) Londoner [Mail on Sunday]
Kirstie: "Without wishing to sound smug, I have the most lovely life..." [Mail on Sunday]
Return of the reluctant landlords [Sky News]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
06
Oct

Cluttons calls London house price wobble [Cluttons]
Prince Charles calls Chelsea Barracks designs insane [Telegraph] 
Quirky brochures [The Modern Estate Agent]
Essex Man is 20 [Independent]

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Mon
04
Oct

Ken pledges rent caps for London [Evening Standard]
Squatters' paradise? [Daily Express]
Residents win battle of Primrose Hill [Evening Standard]
One of them is Ed Miliband... [Daily Telegraph]

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Tue
28
Sep

My apologies for yesterday... delayed flight and lack of laptop juice conspired against me. Now let's catch up...

Watch the arrangement fees [housefund.co.uk]
Aviva plans giant buy-to-let newbuild portfolio in south east [Property Hawk]
Hometrack reveals falling prices across the country [Independent]
Knight Frank: profits up but mood subdued [Google News]
London luxury market struggling [Telegraph]
What's Seven Days got to do with it? [Telegraph]
Bringing cappuccino to Chatsworth Road [FT]

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Thu
23
Sep

Former Apprentice runner-up's mortgage woes [Bridging & Commercial]
New York toilet snake "within the realm of possibility" [Wall Street Journal]
Lord Rogers' Battersea towers plan [This Is London]
Delhi Athletes' Village run by slum landlords? [BBC]
Tough-looking woman claims unsightly bin has cost her £5,000 [Daily Mail]

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Tue
21
Sep

Kirstie Allsopp: "Too opinionated for politics" [Telegraph]
Empty Tooting house transformed by artist [This Is Local London]
Students priced out of London [Evening Standard]
Up north, the tenant from hell called Hummer [This is Hull and East Riding]
Profiteering Brit lenders make Wall Street Journal [Wall Street Journal]

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Fri
17
Sep

BC Partners to buy back Foxtons? [Reuters]
Landlords concerned about Land Registry fraud [Property Hawk]
Your September infographic [Primelocation blog]
Landlords from hell [Mirror]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
15
Sep

Lily Allen's new Gloucestershire home [ShowbizSpy]
The biggest doll's house in London [Londonist]
Clone towns [This Is London]
Asian investors pump £760m in central London newbuilds [What House?]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Thu
09
Sep

Lazy estate agents [The Modern Estate Agent]
Families at war... over houses [Telegraph] 
Homebuilders profit from cheap land [Bloomberg] 
The BBC's north/south divide resilience theory [BBC]

The Rat and Mouse - since 2005

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Mon
06
Sep

Girl band estate agent through to X-Factor boot camp [Esatate Agent Today]
Richard Rogers rebuked by planning while repairing his home [Sunday Telegraph]
George Osborne's "unemployed" brother demonstrates how you don't need to be working to get buy a big house [Sunday Mirror]
Will Nick Clegg donate property profits to state? [Guardian]
In the top 5 of New York's worst landlords... a Brit [Property Hawk]
Roger Bootle's worried about houses... again [Sunday Telegraph]

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Fri
03
Sep

HSBC makes noises about leaving UK [Mortgage Strategy]
Newnham Council and the shipping container squatters [BBC]
The battle of Trevalga [Prime Blog]
And the battle for Battersea Power Station [Guardian]
Four-bed bungalow, offers over one euro [Belfast Telegraph]
Banks vulnerable to property market dip [Reuters]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
25
Aug

The right time to offset [Daily Mail]
Complicated house swap [Guardian]
More London properties for sale [This Is London]
The new Zoopla TV ad [YouTube]

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Tue
24
Aug

Blairs expand portfolio [Mirror]
Charlie Bruce buys in Beckenham [Mail]
On St John's Wood [Telegraph]
Buy now, buy later? [FT]
CGT damages BTL [FTAdvisor]
How much to set up an estate agency? [The Modern Estate Agent]

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Fri
20
Aug

Village my arse [Time Out]
Negotiator reveals estate agency awards shortlists [Negotiator]
Squatter evicted from The Foundry [BBC]
Public-owned banks criticised for making money [Telegraph]
Why can't I get a loan? [Independent]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
18
Aug

A rollercoaster ride for house prices [FT]
The social housing challenge [Observer]
No evidence for shortage of homes [Guardian]
N-Dubz's Dappy fined for trashing Docklands flat [Gigwise]
In New York: rent a teepee made from trash [The Brooklyn Paper]
Greek casino losses rattle Foxtons' owners [Guardian]
Second homes reach record high [Telegraph]

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Thu
12
Aug

In Brighton: charity worker forced out by squatters [ITV]
Sun declares war on scroungers [Sun]
London postcodes dominate burglaries hot list [London Insider]
Repossession couple might have killed themselves over debts [Daily Mail]

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Tue
10
Aug

Are the Media to blame for falling house prices? [Guardian]
London: rent v buy [The London Insider]
Worcestershire meadow excavated in search for Suzy Lamplugh's body [Independent] 
What Carter Estate Agents hates about... er... estate agents [Carter Estate Agents]

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Mon
09
Aug

Telling the Chinese they're being ripped off in London [Xinhuanet]
Having their ads banned by ASA [Debt Management Today]
Offering their services as raffle prizes [Get Reading]
Releasing iPhone apps [Estate Agent Today] 
Getting innovative in Japan [Cream] 
Getting cheeky with their promotional material [Telegraph] 
Talking up beach huts... again [BBC]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Thu
22
Jul

Something for the kids, the Bauhaus building game [Retrotogo.com]
Why you should price to sell [Ryder & Dutton blog]
Google map search... stale [1000watt blog]

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Wed
21
Jul

On unlawful eviction [Landlord Law Blog]
Primelocation International Property Newsletter in Ibiza [Primelocation]
Manchester Council squanders £36,000 in Second Life... (why grey suits and tech don't mix) [Telegraph]
Where it's cheaper to buy than rent [Citywire]
Agent cross at TV property presenter's "downright irresponsible" seminar [Estate Agent Today]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
19
Jul

Tax advice, Candy-style [Daily Mail]
More asylum-seeker incorrectness gone mad [This Is London]
Why Tamzin Outhwaite lives in Crouch End [Daily Mail]
RICS member calls somebody else's survey "meaningless" [Bridging & Commercial]
Madonna's cruising for an ASBO [This Is London]
In the US: Top Ten Rental Homes [MSNBC]
In the UK: Top Ten Homes for Millionaires [Citywire]

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Fri
16
Jul

Social Media 101 for estate agents [Estate Agency Academy]
Sarah Beeny on the future of the property transaction [The Good Web Guide]
Help Sean help others [Estate Agency Foundation]
PropertyHawk and doubts about NLA Awards [Property Hawk]
On the madness of liar loans [Herald]
The cost of living near the Tube [Bloomberg]

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Tue
13
Jul

BBC to make Grand Designs rival [Prime]
Goodbye self-certification mortgages [Telegraph]
Government housing policy, from bad to worse [Guardian]
Rich Americans invade Battersea [Financial News]
Very sad story - UK agents injured in charity fundraiser [Estate Agent Today]

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Fri
09
Jul

Camelot (non-)tenants have fewer rights than squatters [Guardian]
Village life, in London [Telegraph]
Wealthy hedge fund manager refused key to garden [Press Association]

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Have a great weekend. Check out the drummer.

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Tue
06
Jul

Outlook for rents good [Homemove.co.uk]
Rate their bedrooms [4homes]
Mortgage worries turn homeowners bearish [Myintroducer.com]
In America: cute little houses [DesignSquish]

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Mon
05
Jul

How foreign buyers are driving a London bubble [Prime]
Air rage property developer gets suspended sentence [Daily Mail]
Houses... buy or sell? [Telegraph]
The ethical house purchase [Independent on Sunday]
N-Dubz Dappy isn't enjoying Canary Wharf [Sun]

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Thursday morning linkage - [July 1, 2010]

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Thu
01
Jul

Brent family jailed for housing benefit fraud [This Is London]
27% overvalued... but Andrew Oxlade's still buying [This Is Money]
Battersea: rags to riches [Net-lettings]
How long before the next crash? [Independent]

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Monday afternoon linkage - [June 28, 2010]

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Mon
28
Jun

The return of the speculative seller [LoveMoney.com]
Table made from old London Bridge timber, for sale [BBC]
Buy-to-let: it's behind you! [Telegraph]
Prime property at risk [Telegraph]
The immunity belt [The Move Channel]

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Friday afternoon linkage - Stamp Duty tax break "review" [June 25, 2010]

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Fri
25
Jun

Interest rates can go up as well as stay the same [Mel's Mortgage Matters]
Top 15 moving movies [Change of Address]
Stamp Duty tax break "review" [This Is Money]
South of the river [Property Wire]
New rules to protect borrowers [BBC]
Sarah Beeny: how to be a landlord [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

Thursday linkage - when letting agents go bad [June 24, 2010]

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Thu
24
Jun

Harrow lettings agent uses landlords' keys to rob flats [Harrow Observer]
Advice from RLA's Alan Ward [Landlord Law Blog]
A knotty plot [Telegraph]
Backing modernism [FT]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2010

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Mon
21
Jun

The Modern Estate Agent games Rightmove [The Modern Estate Agent]
Landlords... the taxman cometh [BBC]
Someone dares to predict massive property market boom post-World Cup [LoveMoney] 
A guide to Camden [Telegraph]
Hackney Mole Man dies [BBC] 
Olympic Stadium could be "useless" after games thanks to radioactive waste [Observer]

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Wednesday afternoon and a little late linkage [June 16, 2010]

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Wed
16
Jun

Lending restrictions just around the corner? [Telegraph]
Better to buy then to rent [Which4U ]
Three more mortgage brokers banned [Citywire]

 

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Mon
14
Jun

Blair's property empire now at £14m [Property Mentor]
Will the banks bring us down, again? [Observer]
East London line boosts Upper Norwood prices [Croydon Today]
It's garden-grabbing or homes shortage... your choice [Observer]
Camden: the grunge and the grandeur [FT]
Don't bank on rising house prices [Independent on Sunday]

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Tue
08
Jun

Telegraph readers fight Capital Gains Tax hike [Telegraph]
Scottish landlords face ASBOs for party flats [Scotsman]
£1.25m for Primrose Hill lock-up [Mail on Sunday]
Most high-end London property buyers are foreigners [Telegraph]
Don't cry for David Laws [Observer]
Footballers in dumb decisions shocker [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
02
Jun

Building targets scrapped [BBC]
Property prices and future theft [Citywire]
Damn, I bought a house [FT]
My house is so big it scares me [Telegraph]
Bad things come in threes, and to London [NDTV]
Rightmove's buying itself [Estate Agent Today]
A FTB guide to mortgages [Citywire]
Estate agency and the gender wars [Estate Agent Today]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
28
May

Capital Gains Tax on all home sales: "one day it will happen" [Times]
Nationwide predicts house price stall [This Is Money]
Beyonce in your bedroom [Spicezee]
How to downsize [Telegraph]

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Thu
27
May

Cultural quarter plan for BBC TV Centre [Guardian]
London homeowners least insured [PropertyCommunity.com]
New report says "raise interest rates" [Independent]
Knotweed scuppers mortgage [Telegraph]
MPs second homes allowances cut; they don't like it [Telegraph]
Credit crunch 2.0? [Daily Mail]

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Wed
26
May

Landlords: 6.1% richer [FT Adviser]
The Libor rise: reasons to be cautious [Peston's Picks]
RICS: rents up [Business Week]
London: UK's only Top 50 city [BBC]

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Mon
24
May

Five minutes with Kirstie [BBC]
Samantha Cameron will move to Number 11, after a refit [Mail on Sunday]
Kate Moss's home: burgled, then flooded with sewage [Contact Music]
The London ftb challenge [Independent on Sunday]
Foxtons returns to the black [This Is Money]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
21
May

RIBA 2010 in pictures [BBC]
Lily Allen obsessed with home [Contact Music]
Samantha Cameron staying put until September [Mirror]
The new Government and your home [Independent]
Jury out on benefit of hosting Olympics [Reuters]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
19
May

Further buy-to-let mortgage choice [This Is Money]
Hot and bothered about Capital Gains Tax [Telegraph]
How can house prices really be rising? [Money Week]
Debters queue up outside CAB [Telegraph]
Still no sign of Google property search [The Modern Estate Agent]
Catch this tenant if you can [Property Hawk]
And this one [Daily Mail]
Author lives in big house [Daily Mail]
Buy or rent? [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
17
May

In the US, Govt to pay mortgages [CNN]
Pre-CGT btl sell-offs likely to benefit ftbs [Citywire]
Prince Charles interference in Chelsea Barracks development heads to the High Court [Telegraph]
Liz Taylor's house-hunting in Hampstead [Daily Mail]

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Fri
14
May

It's the NLA Property Women Awards 2010 [Residential Landlord]
Interest-only mortgage, you'd better watch your back [This Is Money]
Five million homeowners vulnerable to interest rate rise [Yahoo]
CGT rules favour divorce [Telegraph]
Jamie Oliver's old pad for sale [Zoopla Blog]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Tue
04
May

Middle-class advice: Don't just get the painters from Poland, get the paint, too! [Sunday Times]
Low interest rates... get used to them [Daily Star]
Property price recovery is "stalling" [Independent]
No it's not [Telegraph]
Someone should do something about the empty homes [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Thu
29
Apr

Expect increased property action across the summer [Property Showrooms]
Sales of fancy sheds climb [Telegraph]
As do numbers of weekday lodgers [This is London]
Making a good first impression [Modern Estate Agent]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
28
Apr

The instability of life in a council house [Guardian]
Warring pensioners want someone to buy their home [Mirror]
Mrs Finchley [Guardian]
Property investment scammer exposed on Sky and Channel 5 today [Landlord Zone]
Life in cool Clerkenwell [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
19
Apr

Chico's moving [Daily Mail]
All eyes on the mortgage market [This Is Money]
German taxpayers fun BNP London organisers home [Sunday Telegraph]
Madonna's radiators run on magic water [Sify]
One Hyde Park continues to aim high [Sunday Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
16
Apr

Trending property portals [The Modern Estate Agent]
In America... another house price crash? [Counterpunch]
In London... another house price boom? [This Is London]
The democratisation of real estate video [1000 Watt Consulting]
How to go from big house to bedsit, without passing go [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
14
Apr

The UK's cheapest streets [Property Hawk]
Estate agent blogs... the five elements of success [Future of Real Estate Marketing]
Surge in demand for housing in Olympics zone [FT]
Property tycoon warns of social unrest [Telegraph]
Wealthy Greeks bury money in UK property [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
12
Apr

Kensington fined by FSA [This Is Money]
Estate agents could use falling house prices [Money Week]
FTB blames herself [Guardian]
Will the Stamp Duty changes mean anything to the market? [BBC]
Pamela Anderson... a spring in a London estate agent's step [Monsters & Critics]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
09
Apr

Nicky Haslam-designed Park Lane penthouse: £25,000 a week [City AM]
iPhone apps and celebrity stalking [Guardian]
Lovely Leighton House [Independent]
The election; your property [Times]
The bankers bid up Fulham [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Tue
06
Apr
It was a Bank Holiday. This is the missing linkage.

East London line - don't buy the hype about the regeneration express [Guardian]
Administrators sieze StratReal boss's art collection [Telegraph]
Derek Conway MP in line for £1m profit from taxpayer-funded flat [Daily Mail]
Lord Bhatia can't remember address of main home [Sunday Times]
Are the first-time buyers appearing late, like the daffodils? [Telegraph]
The new Dr Who house [Mirror]
Half a million houses lie empty [Guardian]
Long-term bear market ahead [Telegraph]
So far, Landlord blog fails to find reasons to love a landlord [Property Hawk]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
31
Mar

Prime London reaches tipping point [Wealth Bulletin]
House prices "back to normal" [This Is Money]
The ten signs of mortgage fraud [Citywire]
Nestoria down under [Nestoria blog]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
29
Mar

Mortgage approvals down [ITN News]
Post Office to offer "super-size" loans to ftbs [Daily Mail]
Bovey's failed business hits the market [Independent on Sunday]
Our complex relationships with our neighbours [Observer]

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Thu
25
Mar

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Price cut - £600,000 off X-Factor house in a year [link to particulars, also pictured]
Nestoria seek superstars for Clerkenwell office [Nestoria blog]
So, Alistair, what exactly is a first-time buyers? [Citywire]
The tenants are defaulting [Telegraph]
Alexander McQueen - the Gloucestershire connection [Daily Mail]
Don't move, improve [Investors Chronicle]
The crown estate fails the people [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
24
Mar

Nine out of ten first-time buyers lifted out of Stamp Duty [Telegraph]
Tax hike at top of market will knock confidence [Daily Mail]
Conservatives not expected to oppose 5% band [Reuters]
Industry expresses concerns over difficulties in policing "first-time buyers only" clause [BBC]
Builders cheer [This Is London]
The real issue is lending, and the lack thereof [My Introducer]
Stamp Duty provides the ups and downs on the UK property market rollercoaster [Property-Abroad]
Stamp Duty cut will boost carpet sales [UK Flooring Direct]

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Fri
19
Mar

North leads house price boom [Guardian]
Except Sunderland... the fourth worst city in Britain [Sunderland Echo]
Now's the time to cosy up to a Savills estate agent [Google news]
Go small, and posh [Daily Mail]
Or just go small and cramped [New Straits Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Wed
17
Mar

Hold on for the double dip [Telegraph]
Would you sell your home with Tesco? [Times]
Woman who's lived in same house for 96 years [Daily Mail]
How to ruin your home [4homes blog]
Highgate home pipped at post in major design competition [Hornsey Journal]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
15
Mar

One thousand Brits a day forced to move by nasty neighbours [Telegraph]
Michael Jackson home to be recreated in Ireland [India Times]
And you can buy his furniture in Las Vegas [Telegraph]
Susan Boyle decides against moving to London for her own safety [Mirror]
Can the Olympic facelift save Stratford? [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Thu
11
Mar

Work on second Heron Tower residential skyscraper begins [Londonist]
Is it time for the aftershock? [MSN]
Fear Super-Google? [Zoomf blog]
Homeownership, only for the 30+ [AboutProperty]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Tue
09
Mar

Google StreetView goes national this Thursday [FindaProperty]
Cameron's secret family fortunes [Daily Mirror]
House prices to plunge in Chelsea, on news of likely Susan Boyle move [The Sun]
Those lousy capital pig nuns [Telegraph]
How to start an estate agency [1000watt blog]
RICS in pictures, all the excitement captured [RICS at Flickr]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
08
Mar

Foxtons' losses hurt [Citywire]
And yet... they plan to expand [Times]
A decade of stagnation to look forward to [Observer]
iSold.com [Independent on Sunday]
Housing policy and the parties [Observer]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Thu
04
Mar

Four sentenced after £3m mortgage fraud investigation [Herts Police]
Giant landlord unimpressed by current house prices [Business Week]
Interview with Greene & Co's David Pollock (the one off the telly) [Digital Property Group]
Furniture for Posh and Becks [Trendir]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
03
Mar

Lonton property tycoon in massive fraud case [Guardian]
Amy Winehouse buys Camden mansion [Digital Spy]
London key workers fail crown property fire-sale [Guardian]
Knight Frank shows price bump for prime London, driven by foreign buyers [International Property Journal]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Thu
25
Feb

Arm yourselves...the class war...it's on! [Telegraph]
The 1995 to 2007 property boom, and the big winners [LoveMoney]
Rubbish houses... literally [BBC]
The recession, it's not over yet [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
24
Feb

In the US: bottom falls out of new home sales [Yahoo]
Abbey Road Studios get listed status [Daily Mail]
Document predicts short term uncertainty for London market [PropertyWire]
Is Inheritance Tax the enemy of homeownership? [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Tue
23
Feb

Another Facebook party, another trashed house [BBC]
Tories to give local councils power to quash out-of-town supermarket developments [Guardian]
The Bafta actress and the Holloway eviction [Daily Mail]
The expenses cheat and the big property profit [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Mon
22
Feb

Ten ways to devalue your home [Yahoo]
Candy brothers (nice scarves) lose millions in LA [Telegraph]
What does a buyer's agent do, exactly? [Independent on Sunday]
The London lighthouse [BBC]
Paris, London or New York? [Huliq]
Stick, or twist? [Sunday Times]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Thu
18
Feb

The portals battle it out on platform Apple [Sky News]
Office living [Independent]
What's the Telegraph's problem with estate agents? [Estate Agent Today]
Abbey Road Studios... for sale [BBC]
The future of HIPs [Observer]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Mon
15
Feb

FSA bans another London mortgage broker [Mortgage Introducer]
Estate agent wins Euromillions lottery [Times]
Is Joe Calzaghe property shopping in Battersea? [Telegraph]
A buy-to-let disaster [Daily Mail]
In commercial... Regent Street's for sale [Telegraph]
Rightmove: London asking prices hit new high [This Is Money]
Cat Deeley, property shopping in Primrose Hill [The Sun]
Mmm... the house from A Single Man [pictured, Apartment Therapy]

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Fri
12
Feb

Move Parliament to the Olympic village [East London Advertiser]
TR: Gordon Brown unlikely to recover full deposit [This Is London]
The Stamp Duty (holiday) effect [BBC]
Auction price dip casts worry over house prices [This Is Money]
Nestoria celebrates drop in pageviews [Nestoria]
The Scooby loan [Property Hawk]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Tue
09
Feb

What's that? Money Week predicting another crash? [Money Week]
Incoming celebrity... it's Pebbles [Monsters and Critics]
Share you sheds [Shed Blog]
Cluttons: bullish about London [Cluttons]
Vote for Britains best streets, on Google [Google]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Mon
08
Feb

Another Facebook party trashes another posh house [Daily Mail]
HIP news: Property Professionals in administration; sister company Hip Hip Hooray still hip [Estate Agent Today]
How landlords can protect their properties from criminal gangs {Housefund]
Estate agents and spiders: how to scrape your own sites [Estate Agent Today]

The Rat and Mouse - property blog

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Fri
05
Feb

They're futzing with Monopoly again [This Is Money]
The Inside Track gang are back [FT]
How to value your home [Telegraph]
What shared-ownership might mean for you [Times]
London likely to fall behind in house price increases [This Is London]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
03
Feb

The big list of real estate apps... US-oriented, but interesting [appolicious]
Giant hotel plans next to the O2 [This Is London]
Six better investments than property [MSN]
The iPad and selling property [100WattConsulting]
Landlords more tolerant of arrears [PropertyTalkLive]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Tue
02
Feb

John Lewis, official furnishings of the London Olympics [Telegraph]
Americans toss the keys and walk away from negative equity [Guardian]
Is Pamela Anderson property shopping? [Digital Spy]
Jude Law buys Hampshire estate [Digital Spy]
Nestoria partners with Samsung [Nestoria]
Frogs... better architects than you'd think [The London News]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Tue
26
Jan

Why the French suddenly think Calais is part of London [Guardian]
Sky Sports presenter Charlotte Jackson's selling her Kew pad [Daily Mail]
I'm nauseous with jealousy [Telegraph]
One more in NY... celebrity tenant defaults [Property Hawk]
Banker sues vendors after river floods garden [Daily Mail]
On London's housing problem [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - go on, vote for us here.

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Mon
25
Jan

£60 a year to heat Britain's most energy efficient home [Telegraph]
Zoopla lists property auctions [Property Hawk]
Earl Cadogan doesn't enjoy meal [Daily Mail]
Sam Taylor-Wood's £11m cash property purchase [Hello Magazine]
Paltrow and Martin buy 3rd home on same street, for staff [Digital Spy]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
22
Jan

That HBOS 50 year property report... download PDF here [HBOS]
So what's the deal with buy-to-let? [Times]
Where the American Idol judges live [Shelter Pop]
Another property tycoon faces divorce ruin [Google News]
Candys change minds about residential property fund [FT]
How does it feel to borrow value of average house every 60 seconds? Ask this guy... [This Is London]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
18
Jan

The Chinese are coming [Sunday Times]
City homes win the eco-contest [Mail on Sunday]
JK Rowling buys houses like we buy Snickers bars [Mail on Sunday]
Posh and Becks look at Belgravia property [AOL]
Squ-artists [Times]
The buy-to-let comeback [Mortgage Solutions]
Why property remains popular with wealthy [FT]
Heavy sarcasm about house prices [Economic Voice]
Can this woman afford a London property? [Independent on Sunday]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
15
Jan

Four out of ten areas "affordable" (six out of ten not) [BBC]
Credit market must be cured before house prices can rise [Money Week]
Michael Jackson's taste in interior design... wacko [TMZ]
Ten big property mistakes [Telegraph]
Could house price resilience win it for Labour? [Wall Street Journal]
The Romanian squatters, the hard-working family, and the 526 comments in the Daily Mail [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Tue
12
Jan

Mortgages, suddenly it's a buyers' market [Times]
BCC: still no sign of recession's end [Telegraph]
Filthy tenants [Daily Mail]
Madonna's old townhouse for rent: £10,000 a week [Daily Mail]
Books: the more of them the merrier [Telegraph]
Chimp financially outperforms 94% of Russian bankers [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
11
Jan

Can UK homeowners adapt to European rental model? [Guardian]
What about the vulture fund? [Times]
Russians push up house prices in Kensington & Chelsea [LondonInformer]
Cash-rich investors coming to the market [Residential Landlord]
At home with the Royal College of Art's new rector [FT]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
06
Jan

November.. mortgage crazy [Times]
Streatham demands Bakerloo line extension [Londonist]
Lily Allen's leaving for the country [This Is Gloucestershire]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
04
Jan

First mortgage rate hike of the New Year spotted in the wild [This Is Money]
Bovey ordered to pay back £1m [Sunday Times]
Right-to-buy... now we're all paying [Times]
The mess that is Battersea Power Station [Reuters]
Holiday's over [BBC]
Prepare for "decade of sobriety" [Sunday Telegraph]
Unless you live in the country [Times]
Or you can sell your home to a friendly pirate [New York Times]
Ftbs find more areas "affordable" [BBC]
But fewer mortgagese [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
28
Dec

Profiting during a slump [Sunday Times]
Happy New Year - it's going to be crap [Observer]
The pig farmers of Notting Hill [Times]
The winners and losers of 2010 [Telegraph]
The Sharifs London property empire [Daily Times of Pakistan]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
18
Dec

Foxtons wins right of appeal on renewal fees [Introducer Today]
Eighty MPs show astonishing lack of awareness [Mirror]
A popular London virtual pub [Gamers Daily News]
A less popular real one [Associated Press]
Cities make you miserable [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Thu
17
Dec

X-Factor house controversy [Bridging & Commercial]
Savills bounces back [This Is London]
Gordon Brown's bounced rent £3 cheque [Daily Mail]
A boost from bankers' bonuses [Telegraph]
Buckingham Palace is falling down [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - scurrilous about property

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Mon
14
Dec

The X-Factor house [Telegraph]
Flipping marvellous profits [Sunday Telegraph]
On homeswaps [Independent on Sunday]
Primelocation reveals London's most popular postcodes [Primelocation blog]
HIPs - gone in 100 days [Property Hawk]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
11
Dec

£4,500 for home insurance? Sir Peter Viggers needs to go compare. (Or just go.) [Daily Mail]
The bell tolls [Daily Record]
Vaz switches designated home so often he's dizzy [This Is Leicestershire]
Only the best for Burnley's Kitty Usher [This is Lancashire]
Ann Winterton... words fail me [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - under-claiming its allowance

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Wed
09
Dec

See how crap your public services are here [OnePlace]
The kids dig Monopoly [The London News]
The Ten Big Economic Basket Cases [Business Insider]
Goodbye Stamp Duty holiday... the fun we had [Guardian]
Looking back on 2009 [Independent]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Tue
08
Dec

Top ten interesting properties for sale [Primelocation blog]
Stop stealing from your kids [Telegraph]
RBS and their Christmas mortgage lending crackdown [Daily Mail]
Lily Allen to quit London for the sticks [The London News]
In Scotland... JK Rowling's on the move [Scotsman]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Tue
01
Dec

Bra tycoon plans huge Scottish frontage [Sun]
How UKIP leader avoided capital gains tax [Telegraph]
Candies in court - Chelsea Barracks case kicks off today [Property Week]
Blair's finances 'Byzantine" [Guardian]
In commercial... London tops rental league again [RTE Business]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
30
Nov

The bankers are back [This Is London]
Tabloid scandal of the week - asylum seekers living in luxury [Sun]
Taylor Swift: new home in Nashville, furniture shopping in London [ContactMusic]
Why you shouldn't weep for the Dubai speculators [Independent on Sunday]
The latest on the LibDem mansion tax [Google News]
Have we "gone off" Ikea? [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
23
Nov

Mortgage rates up in second crash fears [Sunday Times]
End of Stamp Duty holiday unlikely to affect overall market [This Is Money]
House prices expected to rise 5% in 2010 [Net-Lettings.co.uk]
Nationwide: house price recovery about to end [Independent]
Safe as houses [Guardian]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
20
Nov

It's all change at Chesterton Humbert [Negotiator]
Holy Shit [Daily Mail]
Carla Bruni's childhood castle for sale [Telegraph]
2014 until house price peak recovered... see how miserable she looks [Bloomberg]
Six thousand Londoners helped by Stamp Duty holiday [Evening Standard]
In NY - irked Jude Law throws oranges at neighbours [Curbed]
Early forecasts... Capital Economics at it again [Renthusiast]

The Rat and Mouse - the big bad property blog

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Thu
19
Nov

In the US... even the prime turning sub-prime [Yahoo]
Experian reports on sorry state of UK banks [Telegraph]
Homeless in Northamptonshire... [Northampton Chronicle]
Future of buy-to-let lending "remains to be seen" [Mortgages for Business]

Damn that was depressing

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Wed
18
Nov

Olympics' east end social cleansing [Times]
Gryff Rhys Jones's house, no joke [Telegraph]
Rightmove consumer confidence quote... high [MyIntroducer]
Rise of the yimbies, don't believe a word of it [PropertyTalkLive]
Cash transactions for property outlawed in Bulgaria [The Move Channel]

The Rat and Mouse - the property blog

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Mon
16
Nov

Climate change and property prices [Renthusiast]
Berkow - new troughmaster - just can't control own snout [Telegraph]
BTL tycoons with £350,000 mortgage arrears [Daily Mail]
Cost of a fake pay slip? £35... [Observer]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
13
Nov

Where to downsize in the UK... a top ten [Times]
Better mortgage deals from Woolwich [This Is Money]
Candy & Candy in dispute with former employee [Property Week]
CML expect 2009 sales rates lowest since war [Daily Mail]
£200,000 in tarting up, and she still couldn't sell her home [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Thu
12
Nov

Repos low... CML cuts prediction, again [Property Hawk]
However, tenant evictions still significant [Property Hawk]
Call squatbusters [RealBusiness.co.uk]
Chestertons Poll of Poll: UK homes just 3.2% off last year's figure [FindaProperty]
In the US... video particulars trends [Future Of Real Estate Marketing]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Tue
10
Nov

So why aren't house prices falling? [Independent]
Newcastle court listens to tape of couple's lovemaking after neighbours complain [The London News]
Harrow recruits snoopers [Londonist]
Time to blow a bonus on property? [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Fri
06
Nov

£27,000 a month mortgage bill proves divorce sticking point [This Is London]
At home with Antoni Burakowski [Telegraph]
Oooh, stair porn [Winging It]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Thu
05
Nov

Ultimate footballers' pad - underground mansion in Cheshire [Daily Mail]
MPs' new rules, MPs' new scams [Times]
Buy soon, sell 2015 [This Is London]
Spend what's left on Rightmove shares [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Wed
04
Nov

Qatari Diar buys US embassy, expect possible hotel [Times]
It looks nice in Superbia [Telegraph]
Joe Swash... he's a celebrity, get him an IFA [Metro]
Guy Ritchie's Punchbowl under pressure from neighbours [The London News]
IMF warns UK on debts... extraordinary figures [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
02
Nov

Brown's plans for council tax "timebomb" [Sunday Express]
Sale-and-rent-back sharks continue to circle [Independent on Sunday]
Nationwide offers ftbs 90% mortgage [Observer]
Landlord accused of Macaw-napping [Property Hawk]
Flipping outrage swept under carpet [Independent on Sunday]
Students who are property owners [This Is Money]
Halloween facts about your mortgage [lovemoney.com]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
30
Oct

Interior design... to get skulled? Or not? [Independent]
Tony McNulty... what a total disgrace [Telegraph]
X-Factor finalists neighbours complain... here's why [BBC]
Reluctant landlords, numbers shrinking [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
28
Oct

Tesco's Terry Green's £5m Highgate mansion... every little helps [Daily Mail]
Meanwhile, the Erith flat, yours for less than £60,000 [This Is London]
Ten unusual properties [Primelocation blog]
Will tougher mortgages mean more tenants? [Property Jug]
Daylight saving and Nestoria [Nestoria blog]
Wordpress themes for estate agents [Future of Real Estate Marketing]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Mon
26
Oct

Plans to float a Candy fund [Telegraph]
Queen's £500m property boost [Express]
Baroness Goudie also accused of a bit of a property boost [Sunday Telegraph]
Sarah Beeny on property development during a recession [Independent on Sunday]
Our the Chinese going to squeeze our interest rates? [Telegraph]
Estate agents prepare for Christmas hibernation [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Fri
23
Oct

Fulham bedroom - rescued or ruined? [Telegraph]
Mortgage insurance, up 70% in a year [Telegraph]
Mortgage approvals, up 77% in a year [Times]
Sven enjoys looking at himself [The London News]
From suburbia to Belgravia, without selling the kids [Telegraph]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Thu
22
Oct

In Bury, mother admits having to hose son down in garden, due to inadequate social housing [BBC]
Who's left, believing rising house prices = good? [Guardian]
Not Citywire... [Citywire]
Meanwhile, Blanchflower's still bearish [New Statesman]
Fewer people needed to count completions, jobs lost at Land Registry [BBC]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Wed
21
Oct

The House Hound welcomes new tenants of the Chelsea Thatcher house with a bit of history [Brickwork]
It's the crime map [CrimeMapper]
Couple forced to sell home as church to pay for local church [BBC]
A new property timebomb... interest-only mortgages [This Is Money]
London churches fall foul of noise abatement laws [BBC]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
16
Oct

Welcome to the funhouse [Primelocation blog]
Can the Olympics effect be revived? [Times]
The world's most expensive apartment [The London News]
How much of England remains undeveloped? [PollCode]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Thu
15
Oct

Alexander Armstrong (apparently) takes kicking on Kensington sale [Property Hound]
Citywire to estate agents: Sod off! [Citywire]
Middle Eastern investors buying into London [Reuters]
Builders about to drop a brick [Telegraph]
In US: worst three months for foreclosures... ever [CNN]

The Rat and Mouse - property blog

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Mon
12
Oct

Ten MPs who'll welcome the postal strike [Telegraph]
Renters age three years in... er... three years [UKPA]
Winkworth plans November flotation [Forbes]
More tranquil havens needed [BBC]
Meet Mr and Mrs buy-to-let, richer than Richie [Daily Mail]
90% mortgage, withdrawn [Teelgraph]
Rates could stay below 2% for another five years [Daily Mail]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Fri
09
Oct

Recovery reaches regions [Times]
Renters better off buying [MSN]
Bullishness about housebuilders [Telegraph]
Curbed goes shopping for Madonna [Curbed]
How to buy a London property for your kids [Country Life]
More agents' offices opening [Estate Agent Today]
Inside the Blairs' latest property [Sun]
Ten worst property investments ever [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog, since 2005

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Mon
05
Oct

It's not over yet [Independent on Sunday]
Barratt builds tiny flats, rents ground floor to self-storage company [Telegraph]
Government mansions... everyone welcome under Tories [Observer]

The Rat and Mouse - London's property blog

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Tue
29
Sep

London students targetted by property fraudsters [Observer]
Daily Mail decides rising house prices are bad [Daily Mail]
Oldies take the money and run [Sunday Telegraph]
Prime London rents supported nicel