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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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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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]

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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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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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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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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]

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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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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]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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]

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

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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]

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

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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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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]

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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]

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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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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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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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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]

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Technorati Tags: London, property, property TV, real estate

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]

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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]

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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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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, mortgages, property, real estate

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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, property, real estate

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]

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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]

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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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Technorati Tags: mortgages, property, real estate

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]

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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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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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£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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Technorati Tags: Foxton's, Foxtons, London, property, real estate

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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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]

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£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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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 nicely by business [Sunday Telegraph]
Gwen Stefani, burgled in Primrose Hill [The London News]
The London property famine [Standard]
In America... the Drapers are decorating... we'll have to wait [Apartment Therapy]
House prices and restaurants [Telegraph]

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How the Brits live... a big Chelsea conversion [NY Times]
On shared ownership... but is now really the right time? [Independent]
FTb mortgages down 17% [Metro]
Retro-mansion planned for Cotswolds, no accounting for taste [Telegraph]

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UK economy armageddon threat [Daily Mail]
Doon Street Tower given judicial thumbs up [BBC]
Interiors... Hannibal Lecter-style [Trendir]
Parliamentary flippers to be named and shamed... but sadly not shot [Daily Mail]

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Brixton to launch own currency [Telegraph]
Neighbour hell - 98 and harrassing neighbours [Independent]
Neighbour hell - hi-fi seized after caught playing Status Quo [Independent]
Recession digression - Brits respond to more sex by buying pyjamas (what?!) [The London News]

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Jamie Oliver's kitches faves [MyDeco]
Ten reasons to just say no to house prices stats [Times]
Unemployment continues to rise [BBC]
What London landmark should appear on the stinkin' Olympic badges? [BBC]
Yolande Barnes is happy to rent [Times]

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In Dubai... agent jailed for writing bad cheques [Global edge]
Commission-based versus fees... FIGHT! [Citywire]
Congratulations to award-winning EstateCreate [WebAward.org]
Ooo... six bedrooms in Belgravia (illustrated) [link to particulars]

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Discount at property auctions [FT]
House price rally irrational and temporary [FT]
In love with the mansion flat [Independent]
House in London or island off Australian coast? [Independent]
In America: Great! Property bragging's back! [Curbed]
In US... a default as big as the Ritz [CNBC]
Seymour Walk, Chelsea, and a bit of history [The House Historian]
Royals of Rent out runaway estate agent [Royals of Rent]
The art of the exhibitionist bathroom [illustrated] [Primelocation]

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London selling time halved in a year [The Move Channel]
The house that tweets [The London News]
Green spaces essential for well-being [The London News]
Rental market tightens [Times]
A (very little) bit of homebuilding [BBC]
Stuffed by bank [Citywire]
Amused by mews houses [Telegraph]

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Agents report surge of interest as Stamp Duty holiday deadline nears end [Channel 4]
Eastenders' Dawn goes property shopping in Islington [Daily Mail]
Danielle Lloyd and Jamie O'Hara buy in Berkshire [The London News]
Robbie Williams's home is haunted [The London News]

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Another fund launches, to cash in on residential property recovery [MoneyMarketing]
Rate rise predictions [Telegraph]
Developer kills tenant [BBC]

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Beginners' guide to property tax [Times]
In US, house prices and "the wealth effect" [Economist]
Old Nichol St [Time Out]
Paula's house of hair [Sun]
Prime rises in London [TheMoveChannel]
In Stoke Newington, they're missing their graffiti [Londonist]
Where next for HIPs? [HipConsultant]

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The Blairs' property investments can go down as well as up [Daily Mail]
Numbers of reluctant landlords falling [Moneyfacts]
South-east skews property picture [Independent]
Rents up [RLA News]
Worst is yet to come [Times]
Smiley, happy, house price people... haven't we learned anything? [Herald]

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Woman in tight jeans emergency [Times]
Woman in tight mortgage quandary [Telegraph]
Lender in tight wholesale money market catastrophe [Times]

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London buyers rush in [Times]
Savills in profit, technically [Citywire]
"I don't want my house valuation done by Jack the Ripper" [Zoomf blog]

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Kirstie needs you [4homes blog]
What's the future for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's house? [BBC]
No, we won't drop our prices [Channel 4 News]
Estate agent sponsors mudwrestling [YouTube]

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Bovis... improving, but ultimately it's all about [un]employment [Citywire]
Estate agent in mass hiring shock [The Negotiator]
Sell, sell, sell [Sunday Times]
Islington's Living Wall: no longer, technically, living [This Is London]
Britain's poshest semi [Daily Mail]

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Wreck of the week [Winging It]
London's most expensive rental {Primelocation blog]
Recession to end in 40 days [Metro]
David Shayler, squatting [BBC]

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Somebody buy Kerry Katona's house [TheLondonNews]
Home loans up in July [MSN News]
A noisy lord [ThisIsLondon]
London slips to 22nd most expensive city [Country Life]

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Sell-and-rent-back co. slapped by advertising standards [24dash]
More attempted Princely fiddling with London architecture [Londonist]
Mid-lifers own market [Times]
Oxford, London [BBC]

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Neil Morrissey's property investment pain [Daily Mail]
Latest London cool tip... Victoria [Sunday Telegraph]
Energy Saving Trust proposes ban on doer-uppers [PropertyWire]
For sale in Hampshire... we like this one [link to particulars]

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Increasing auction discounts suggest recovery on shaky ground [FT]
Cash in on the crash [This Is Money]
Who's visiting whom? Top property portals... [Property Portal Watch]
Historic City home [Times]
Kensal Rise... so hip it's almost unbelievable [Telegraph]

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US foreclosures at record high [FT.com]
Unemployment and the property market [MoneyWeek]
Jon Hunt: buy now [Mirror]
Lazy Ronaldo buys house without stairs [WeDon'tKnowFootball]
How to avoid voids [YourPropertyNetwork.co.uk]

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Incoming "celebrity" alert - London home wanted, close to train station [Evening Standard]
NAEA agents accuse RICS agents [BBC]
In NY: Charles Mingus' loft, sold [Curbed]
Channel 4 and the ongoing scandal of crappy Middlesbrough [4homes blog]

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Susan Boyle... all the glamour a city can take [Entertainmentwise]
Beckhams eye £10m Chelsea townhouse [Ireland Online]
Simon Cowell turns office top-floor into home from home [Mirror]
Richard Attenborough flogs stuff to create space [Guardian]

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Are your children repeating on you? [Independent]
Keats home declared open [Guardian]
New buy-to-let loans on the block [Property Hawk]
Living cheap in Chelsea [Times]
Pimlico's hanging basket debacle [Evening Standard]

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Chavs and yobs to be interned [Daily Mail]
A very Fiennes house in the country [Telegraph]
UK house prices "bottom", apparently [NY Times]
The Keats house restored [Telegraph]
Everything's a pound in SE2 [The London Paper]
Ferrari fails to impress [Metro]

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So how much have private landlords lost? [FT]
How unemployment might kill house prices [Yahoo!]
I'd pay £3,000 for a big house [BBC]
Blair, the taxpayer, and a big property profit [Daily Mail]
Deluded on house prices [Telegraph]
Council caught sniffing your bins [24 Dash]

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Primelocation index shows slight rise in London prime [FindaProperty]
Top 10 most expensive streets in the world [Wealth Bulletin]
Bovey meets bailiff, filmed by Daily Mail [Daily Mail]
Hope is in the suburbs [Observer]

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Posh London vendors going it alone [Telegraph]
Rental market recovery [Marsh & Parsons blog]
Beware the serial bad tenant [Upad blog]
Those eco-town locations [Country Life]
German man blows up flat trying to mend inflatable mattress [BBC]
Send down... for spreading false rumours about estate agent [EAT]

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Asset-backed Guarantee Scheme failing [Independent]
When tenants go bad [BBC]
Homes with cricket pitches [Telegraph]

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Sex attack in MPs' squat-house [Daily Mail]
David Tennant moves into north London tardis [Google]
Londoners are sticking about [Guardian]
Investing in property funds [Independent on Sunday]

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Vultures prey on home loans market [Times]
Extraordinary homes to rent [Primelocation blog]
Minis out, Mondeos in [PropertyHawk]
Time to get out? [This Is Money]

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A Putney gem [Independent]
London property ABCs [thestar]
Watford... UK's second most house proud town [Watford Observer]
Top Ten buy-to-let "hotspots" [Times]
Harsh lessons from buy-to-let fraud [ThisIsMoney]
Google turns attention to property listings [Future Of Real Estate Market]

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Is it time Camden cleaned up its act? [Londonist]
The new renters [Telegraph]
Is the crash now over? [Independent]
Cluttons: London prices up, but don't expect it to continue [FindAProperty]

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Kelly Brook and Danny Cipriani property shop in Wimbledon [Daily Mail]
Hatchet-faced Dragons' Den star threatens pensioners [Telegraph]
Historic London property, a photo tour [Country Life Picture Library, via House Historian]
Three homes for tennis players [Telegraph]
Christian Candy to marry [Telegraph]

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It's cheap to be a homeowner [Guardian]
London's super-prime on a march [Bloomberg]
Daily Mail miffed at Boveys [Daily Mail]
But the house price crash is over [Daily Mail]
Telegraphed miffed at £147,000 house benefit bill [Telegraph]

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Angry in Lambeth [Your Local Guardian]
Hot in Acton [Time Out]

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Madonna plans Wiltshire mansion duplicate in NY... yeah, that'll work [The London News]
The PM's Top Ten Financial Blunders [Times]
Up-and-coming... Dalston [Independent]
Thank God, it's business as usual in Prime London [Forbes]

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One in five threatened by negative equity [ITN News]
Buy the Stig's house... maybe [Daily Mail]
Victorian Society v Lewisham Borough Council [Culture 24]
Bargain hunting or profiteering? [UPAD blog]

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Incoming celebrity alert - Pixie Lott [ContactMusic]
Beckhams to sell French property [LittleAbout]
And house-hunt in London [Sun]
Andy Murray buys Surrey mansion... no tennis court [PropertyTalkLive]

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Nestoria's Ed Freyfogle chats to Renthusiast on third b'day (Nestoria's, not Freyfogle's, or Renthusiast's) [Renthusiast]
Disappointing lending figures [BBC]
Yorkshire Tea box cottage for sale [Telegraph]
Exclusion in the housing market [Times]
Job done on London architecture, Prince turns to rural house prices [Google]
Loving garages [Daily Mail]

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Call to house MPs in 2012 Olympic "barracks" [Times]
PropertyHawk calls for register of tenants [PropertyHawk]
Your guide to Blackheath [Primelocation blog]
NAEA: four buyers to every vendor [Wall Street Journal]

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Sienna Miller's painful price-drop [ContactMusic]
Prince Charles' blow against creative architecture [Guardian]
Buy-to-let and the cannabis farmer tenants [Guardian]
House prices and the north/south divide [Times]
London flats on a (£175,000) shoestring [Telegraph]
Vendors feel they have the whip hand [Times]
The best ftb mortgages [Citywire]

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Millionaire landlords now worth nothing [PropertyHawk]
More on that murder (see below) story... now add a hooker [Independent]
KFH report on the London property buzz [FT Advisor]
How to buy an island [Telegraph]
Decline easing, says Chesterton Poll of Polls [FindaProperty]

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Developer in hot water for bulldozing historic Wanstead building [This Is London]
Glenda Jackson: Social housing policy can beat the Fascists [Independent]
Tweetlister: tweets your property [Tweetlister]
Footballers who lose on property [Realestateweb]

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Nationwide and the 95% mortgage [Telegraph]
Beware the lazy lettings agent [Scotsman]
Neverland, UK [NME]
Renting in London, a value prospect [Times]
London house price party, you're all invited [Telegraph]
Bricks and mortar, pros and cons [Times]

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Five building societies could go within the year [Telegraph]
How to make your home a movie star [Telegraph]
Time to get in a fix? [Mirror]
This man will pay you £100,000 if you can find a buyer for his £2m home [BBC]
The HSBC rate matcher mortgage [Telegraph]
London agent shifts home for record £50m [PropertyTalk Live]
Construction industry wants women [BBC]

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Hah, so what now pesky profits of gloom? [Times]
Hello gazumping [Express]
House prices, consumer confidence, car sales, everything's up! [Reuters]
House prices rises boost builders in London [Irish Times]
Green shoots and sunshine [Express]
Pound leads UK out of recession [Bloomberg]
Shafts of light in housing market [Independent on Sunday]
Builders work around wagtail... aaaah! [BBC]

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Jones Lang LaSalle: London house prices could drop another 18% [FT Adviser]
Nationwide: UK house prices won't recover until 2010 [Bloomberg]
Market Oracle: Hell, they won't recover until 2012 [Market Oracle]
Rules to beat liar loans [BBC]
London's worst landlord [Sun]

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Paul McCartney's house pulled from StreetView [This Is London]
CAB bashes letting agents [Guardian]
Home Secretary in fraud challenge [BBC]
Making the most of mortgage cuts [Independent on Sunday]
A bullish case for property [FT]

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How to flip like an MP [Property Tax Plus]
Should we prepare for an upturn? [Times]
It's still about the mortgage market [Reuters]
A record asking price in Wimbledon [Times]
Mortgage lending drops in April [BBC]
Living on the edge [Times]

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Return of the first-time buyer [Mortgage Strategy]
UK sub-prime subber than US sub-prime [Bloomberg]
Hidden HIPs profits for estate agents [Telegraph]
Property investment scam shut down [Property Hawk]
Vendors advised: aim lower, achieve higher [HotProperty]

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Creative squatting in London [Londonist]
Recession to be over by Christmas, says Darling [Times]
Return of the 95% mortgage [Telegraph]
Clapham regeneration likely to be refused [MoveChannel]

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New homes: sale now on [This is London]
London prices: borough by borough guide [Times]
The case of the phantom mortgages [Daily Mail]
Tonight - or, rather, Last Night - on ITV... waiting for the recovery [ITV]
London to be "greenest City on Earth" by 2012 [BBC]

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The viewers, on house prices [BBC]
What buyers want [Primelocation blog]
Stress testing a buy-to-let [Property Hawk]
Jon Hunt's basement limited [Sunday Times]
Watch James Hewitt property shop in Marbella [Sunday Times]
About the incentives [Observer]

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Hey, you're the proud new owner of a £1.1bn Olympic Village [Guardian]
Damn... can't remember whether I paid off my mortgage or not [Daily Mash]
US financial reporter: Even I cocked it up [NY Times]
The ins and outs of maintaining a moat [Telegraph]

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Government's landlord licensing plans [Property Hawk]
Robbie Fowlers to squeeze out the little men [Telegrpah]
Big buy-to-let invester back [This Is Money]
Where are the buy-to-let mortgages? [Residential Landlord]
They're here [Telegraph]

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Re-watch Property Watch [BBC iPlayer]
And read the controversy [Guardian]
Simply tax avoidance [PropertyHawk]
Architects versus Prince Charles news roundup [Building Design online]
Does £13,332 restore a reputation? I hope not... [Guardian]

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Countrywide tipped for buying spree [Estate Agent Today]
Countryside exodus to start soon [BBC]
Another 6%, then house prices to start rising [Express]
Trapped with the ex... yowza [BBC]
An A to Z of expenses claims [Mirror]
Buy-to-let lives in in student land [Independent on Sunday]

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Interest rates... no movement [BBC]
Rise in problem tenants [Property Hawk]
Order a tree from Boris [This Is London]
Guardian's complicated relationship with the agents [Estate Agent Today]

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Kirstie's neighbour's homemade dungeon [News Of The World]
Homes most affordable in six years [Mortgage Introducer]
Vendors turn to Ebay [Observer]
Terrace houses and the single girl [Telegraph]
Lady Uddin shuddin have been claiming expenses [apparently] [Sunday Times]
Tight vendors take fittings and fixtures [Sunday Times]
Lily Allen looking to buy-to-let [Celebrity Gossip]

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Crowdsourcing property prices to 80s levels? But lenders have obligations... [Economic Times]
Find me a country house, said Fred [Telegraph]
Gold. No, property. No, gold. No, property [Goldseek.com]
Some ftbs [Independent]
At home with Thomas Neurath, in north London [Telegraph]
The landladies have it [PropertyWire]

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Remember the smug old days? [FT]
The luck of the Irish [Times]
Property price disaster in Dubai [BBC]
Everybody's obsessed with Hunt's basement[s] [This Is Money]
What's the consensus on the new Kirstie show? [Primelocation blog]
Foxtons v landlords: it's decision week [RLA News Service]
Kensington Palace Gardens - less expensive, not cheap [Economic Times]
Luxury homes price rise [Bloomberg]

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Meet the buyers [Sunday Times]
Meet the landlords [Sunday Times]
Meet the estate agent [Telegraph blogs]
Meet the tenants [Observer]
Meet the vendors [Guardian]

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Estate agents fear effect of tax hike [PropertyWeek]
Northern Rock still crippled by bad debt [Telegraph]
And yet they keep on coming [BBC]
Getting your first mortgage [Times]
Why bother? [Economist]

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Squatters in toppers [Another NIckel In The Machine]
Bank warns Govt against trying to stop housing crash, according to Mail's illiterate headline [Daily Mail]
MPs' expenses, some grim reading [Guardian]
HMRC report 40% spring bounce [BBC]

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Green shoots? Not according to the IMF... [Telegraph]
A landlord sells parking [PropertyHawk]
The Economist on houses [Economist]
The Investors' Chronicle on... er... houses [Investors' Chronicle]

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A Q&A with Kirstie [Guardian]
900,000 in negative equity [Guardian]
South London mortgage broker fined £100,000, banned [BBC]
Wandsworth, Richmond, Fulham and the traditional sound of spring... the cement mixer [Richmond & Twickenham Times]

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Zoopla... fastest growing property portal [Estate Agent Today]
Mortgage rejections quadruple [Telegraph]
Have your room rated by strangers [4homes]
Will a market turn this weekend? [Moneyweek]
Madonna's new house [Guardian]
"How do I get rid of my brother?" (As property co-owner) [Independent]

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Hope you had a good Easter break. This is what happened while we were tanning.

Landlord spots flat being trashed on Facebook [Telegraph]
The middle-classes are abandoning their homes [Independent]
Quarter of home for sale on market for six months or more [Sunday Telegraph]
Living with a parent: tax implications therein, thereof... [Telegraph]
Foxtons: help needed [Observer]
When it's cheaper to live in a hotel [Daily Mail]
Sixty-five MPs you needn't respect [Daily Mail]
Another year before the market's back on track [Times]
Halifax in under-valued mortgages scandal [Sunday Times]
The £100m home [Sunday Times]

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Brown blamed for house boom/crash, decision to exclude housing from inflation index [Evening Standard blogs]
Green housing now a fantasy [Telegraph blogs]
Estate agents who tweet [Winging It]
£1bn in first-time buyer mortgages [Citywire]
The revolution will be televised [Politics.co.uk]

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Richmond Council allows artist to rename home "Love Shack" [UPI.com]
HIPs: more demanding, less welcome [HotProperty]
Kirstie... she's lovely [Telegraph]
House prices, unemployment, the economy [Observer]
Where prices are still rising [Sunday Times]

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Notting Hill Gate makeover, maybe [Londonist]
Frightened surveyors offering low valuations, killing sales [BBC]
Bag a bargain by claiming Stamp Duty on expenses... oh yeah, become MP first [Sunday Times]
FindaProperty records highest traffic, ever [Winging It]
Buy-to-let landlords targetted by lenders protecting agreed equity ratios [FT]

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Ten flyboarding facts [Times]
Buy-to-let fraudster jailed [Times]
Reasons to pay off your mortgage [Independent]
The Bradford & Bingley buy-to-let balls-up [Guardian]

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Win 3-course dinner with Kevin McCloud (prize includes companionship only, no post-dinner sexual contact implied) [4homes]
They've strange ideas about urban decor in Berkshire [BBC]
In Seattle, Hendrix's childhood home demolished [NME]

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Rightmove buys Property-Bee Firefox add-on [Property-Bee]
The Boomerang [OffPlanPropertyExchange]
$96.6bn globally waiting to buy distressed property on the cheap [Guardian]
Sell your London house - now [Sunday Times]
Lots of action in south-west London [YourLocalGuardian]

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Your shitty neighbours are costing you money [Metro]
Commies turn estate agents [Reuters]
Kelly Hoppen's seductive living room [FT]
Parents buying London property [MortgageStragegy]

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Tenants feel effect of repos [BBC]
Buildings that tweet [Curbed]
One and two-bedroom properties best London investments [Residential Landlord]
Houseboats stay afloat [Daily Mail]

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Peril for Pickfords [Sunday Times]
Is Tony McNulty the final straw? [BBC]
Tony Blair's house removed from Google Street View [Mail on Sunday]
The 1p-a-month mortgage [Metro]
80s pop star nobody's heard of caught up in Tooting Sainsbury's carpark gang war [This Is Local London]

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Please don't turn my garden into a quarry [Telegraph]
Chester Square, Belgravia... crunch-proof [BBC]
The new Candys... the Finchattons, in love with their suits [This Is London]
Heathrow runway plan... and house prices [This Is London]

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The middle-classes are downsizing [Telegraph]
Nationwide is upsizing [This Is Money]
Carol Vorderman's property company: er, down-winding? [Daily Mail]
Downtrodden vandalise upmarket homes [Telegraph]
Bank of England talks down economy [Telegraph]

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Your super sexy Sunday guide to buy-to-let [Sunday Express]
The US repo-disaster [PropertyWire]
Mortgage brokers fall by the wayside [Sunday Times]
In negative equity? Keep calm and carry on [Sunday Mirror]

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In Love With Hampstead [The Greene Blog]
Village for sale [Primelocation Blog]
Those Savills Losses [Independent]
Michael Jackson to stay at Rod Stewarts mansion during 02 shows [Hello Magazine]
Buckingham Palace - poor EPC expected [Express]

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Signs of the time: the recession in photographs [Reuters]
Mortgage fraud arrests [BBC]
Brentford tops London's burglary hotspots [Times]
When renting beats buying [Yahoo!]
The Russians are coming [back] [PropertyWire]
FTBs discover auctions [Daily Mail]
London's buyers' market [this Is London]

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The Sunday Times goes modern and semi in Dulwhch [Sunday Times]
The Telegraph goes boho in Chelsea [Telegraph]
American goes nuts at foreclosure sale [New York Times]
Kirstie Allsopp for PM? [Primelocation blog]
Anthea and Grant sell off ski chalet [Mail on Sunday]
What does the bottom of the market look like? [Sunday Times]

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

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Polish shanty town in Lincolnshire [Daily Mail]
Oink, oink [This Is London]
Shrinking skyscrapers [This Is London]
Hunt's great escape [Management Today]
Sean Connery learns that diamonds aren't forever [Daily Record]
How toxic is your home? [Primelocation.com]

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Blairs investigated for running business from residential let [Mail on Sunday]
You can take Clive Owen out of London... actually you can't [Press Association]
Mail on Sunday apologises to Daniel Craig for identifying his London home [Guardian]
NY Times "cheap skanks" sell photos of Lily Allen's London home to OK! [Independent]

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We do like to be beside the seaside [Times]
Get council housing right [BBC]
It's cool to rent [Times]
Top 5 interiors websites [Telegraph]
Sell without an agent [Telegraph]
All about Zoopla [Renthusiast]

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Further changes to Battersea Power Station plan [PropertyWeek.com]
Landlords needn't warn neighbours about psycho tenants [Times]
Landlords default, tenants are evicted [BBC]
Bag a newbuild bargain [Telegraph]
House prices to recover in 2011 [FindaProperty]

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Mortgage lending highest in four months [PropertyWeek.com]
But property slump worse in 50 years [PropertyWeek.com]
No future for a sneaky buy-to-let [This Is Money]
Shard: construction to start in March [Telegraph]
Flood risk hampering housing market recovery [Bloomberg]
Kirstie's home office [Telegraph]
The Top 10 house price drops of 2009: a prediction [Times blogs]

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Architects feeling crunched [4homes blog]
The battle of Camden Passage... lost? [Islington Gsette]
Jones Lang Lasalle: 18% still to go [Crain's Manchester Business]
The coping classes: barely coping [Telegraph]
That house price drug... just say no [Guardian]

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Charlie & Lola author's kitchen [Observer]
How to pack your second home with holiday-makers [Sunday Times]
Thinking about a career in property? Good luck... [Sunday Times]
Recession's good for design [Times]
A London tower so tall it offers views of the Channel [Times]
Scrap HIPs [Telegraph blog]
PM will ban 100% mortgages... because they're a real problem at the moment [HotProperty]

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Social landlords not responsible for tenants' neighbours [24dash]
Bank of England official calls for caps on mortgage lending [Telegraph]
The Sloane Square slab protest [BBC]
Auction action [Times]

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US home loans racket - an overview [FT blogs]
Can you afford you own home? [MSN]
Crisis in Mayfair [Wealth Bulletin]
LibDems propose state mortgages for ftbs [Times]

The Rat and Mouse - the finest in London property blogging, since 2005

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Repo-avoidance tips [Times]
Obama's housing plan [Reuters]
Withnail farmhouse archive... a must-see [Telegraph]
The Medieval house of the future [Telegraph]
Super-prime may return to super first [The Move Channel]
Bank of England looks to print more money [Telegraph]
Recession worst since 1930s [Reuters]
Meanwhile, our Prime Minister attempts to cash in on reality TV star's terminal cancer [BBC]

The Rat and Mouse, disgusted, from London

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Nestoria interview with estatecreate's Henry Yates [Nestoria blog]
25%, it's the magic number [Daily Mail]
Spectacular homes of London [Telegraph]
Greed's to blame [Spectator]
Countrywide sells stake to distressed debt specialist [Times]

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Boveys in a bovver [News of the World]
Asking prices on the rise [Times]
An Arab buying spree in London [ArabBusiness.com]
Jacqui Smith's London neighbours: She only stays here four months a year [Daily Mail]
Does the property market deserve some help? [Telegraph blogs]
Should James buy? [Independent on Sunday]
Happy renters [Observer]

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The pain of DIY removals [Primelocation]
Savills get leaky [Telegraph]
Seven money-saving mortgage tips [Telegraph]
Peston on "shocking" Lloyds profits warning [Peston's Picks]

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Skipton... don't like to lend on one-bedroom flats? No, just a little mistake... [BBC]
Stop the press... Pete Doherty's hearing things [Daily Mail]
House price crash nostalgia [Prime]
Jacqui Smith - not as dumb as she looks [Daily Mail]
Primelocation data shows prices rises in London prime locations [Guardian]
Abolish stamp duty [Telegraph]

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Mmmmm [link to particulars]
The zero per cent mortgage guide [Sunday Times]
Vince Cable on bankers... off with their heads [This Is Money]
Fleeced by a Lord: the Rat and Mouse says... off with his head [Sunday Times]
Is it first-time buyer time? [Telegraph]
Free property networking event... and how to make a killing in the next two years [The Move Channel]
The most expensive apartments in the world [Sky]
In Romford - house prices still 7.7xsalary [Romford Recorder]

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The Daily Mail likes stripes [Daily Mail]
Kate Moss connected to Withnail shack [Telegraph]
Robbie Williams buys in Wiltshire [Times]

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If these walls could talk... Uncle Monty edition [January 20, 2009]

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The Olympics legacy... who'll be in charge [PropertyWeek.com]
House price index rise... is it a blip? [Telegraph]
The £5,000 three-bedroom house [Metro]
The zero-interest mortgagees [Times]
The automatically-lowering toilet seat [ApartmentTherapy]
If these walls could talk... Fritzl house of horrors [Daily Star]

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If these walls could talks - Madoff's "man in London" edition [Sunday Times]
Bankster [BBC]
Some mortgages could drop to 8p a month [Daily Mail]
Some lenders demand 50% deposit on new-builds [Observer]

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Focus on Croydon [Times]
Athletes' village with break London [Guardian]
Johnny Foreigner goes bargain-hunting in prime London [This Is London]
Buying good, renting bad; no, no, it's the other way round [Guardian]
Amy Winehouse burgled [NME]
Brown plans big build [Times]

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The greenest housing estate in the west [London] [Evening Standard]
Crazy landlords [Times]
Schedenfreude, Sandbanks-style [Sun]
My dream water tower [Prime]
House prices: the regional view [4homes]
An ftb revival? [Press Association]

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Ftb opportunities in Hounslow [Telegraph]
Don't wait for prices to rise [Assetz]
Brits lose more on their homes than earn from their jobs [News of the World]
Sir Ian Blair sits pretty [Sunday Times]
Rhianna property shopping in K&C [ShowbizSpy]

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Buy-to-let lending, better than the rest [Citywire]
Repos double in a year [Guardian]
Squatting [Telegraph]
Irish property investor commits suicide [IHT]
AOL now powered by Nestoria [Renthusiast]
Brown should admit ignorance [Independent]

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Yes we can [Behind The Curtains]
Brothels facilities on schedule for London Olympics [Guardian]
Tough terms on buy-to-let deals [The Move Channel]
Lenders profit from rate cuts [Times]
More good news for HBOS and Barcalays, as borrowers prepare to sue [Citywire]

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Woman launches estate agency [BBC]
Mmm... Caledonian Road [Guardian]
Beckett: Buy property! [Sunday Times]
Sunday Times reporter and ftb celebrates falling prices [Sunday Times]
The squatters are back [Washington Post]

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Police crack multi-million pound buy-to-let fraud scheme [Citywire]
Beat the Bailiff TV presenter goes bankrupt [Sun]
The top (and bottom) UK towns affected by the slump [Times]
Foxtons - hounded [Investors Chronicle]
The end of property porn? [Counterpunch]
Size matters [Times]

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

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Long-fingered people better with money [Telegraph]
Being a landlord costs [This Is London]
Equipping the bailiffs [Telegraph]
Boomtime for pawnshops [Times]
The big affordable homes gamble [Guardian]
Home wind turbines might use more power than they create [TechRadar]
Can a house doctor help you sell your home? [Independent]

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Equity release... less equity, less release [Channel 4]
Peter Mandelson's property under scrutiny again [Mail]
If these walls could talk... Catherine Cookson's house in Hastings [Telegraph]
The Home Show wants YOU! [4Homes forum]

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What Sarah Beeny says [Observer]
The Russians are retreating [Sunday Times]
Luxury London in free-fall [Bloomberg]
Homes for Heroes, help needed [Mirror]
Squatter "steals" back repossessed house [Mail]
Propert crash fallout includes tax "black hole" [Observer]
The music in the Rightmove ad [Zoomf blog]

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In Scotland, vibrators frequently left behind by tenants [PropertyHawk]
London - down 15% in 12 months [This Is London]
It's official - London's colder than Antarctica [Telegraph]
Clapham house four month price drop [This Is London]
25% of loans need 40% deposit [Daily Mail]

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Yorkshire estate agent expands into work-from-home franchise [Estate Agent Today]
Kirstie: Redecoration, redecoration, redecoration [Mail on Sunday]
Reasons to be cheerful [Independent]
Reasons to not be cheerful [Observer]
3,000 new negative equity cases a day [Telegraph]
16.2% down... those Halifax figures [Reuters]
The search for a bargain [Times]

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Almost half of middle class people fear they won't be able to pay the mortgage [Daily Mail]
London house prices suffer most [BBC]
In 2009... why not invest in property? [FT]
How to live [Telegraph]
Learn from London's Victorian builders [This Is London]

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"Bounce back could be as dramatic as the fall" [Express]
The agents' predictions [Telegraph]
32,000 less estate agents and counting [Telegraph]
And yet... Chesterton Humberts remain defiant [Times]

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Bank spotted "crazy borrowing", failed to act [This Is Money]
Slump in Prime London rents [Wealth Bulletin]
Mother-of-four bullied out of expensive council house [Daily Mail]
Homeless risk for 2009 [BBC]
It's Paris's time [Times]

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Houses... now free! [Daily Star]
Homeless housed in Kensington & Chelsea mansion [Sunday Times]
Hackney Homes residents awards [Clapton Pond Blog]
Top banker found dead in Knightsbridge hotel room [MSN News]
Outlook so bad, lenders ditch predictions [Telegraph]
Investigators probe giant buy-to-let fraud [Sunday Times]

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Nestoholic... the new property price tool [via Renthusiast]
Westminster's new affordable homes offer [HotProperty.co.uk]
North London tycoon wanted by US for alleged Internet loans scam [Telegraph]
2009 - good year for btl landlords... no, really.... [Rentman]
The big auction give-away [This Is London]

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Buy-to-let landlords: low interest rates v high rent arrears [Independent]
Scrabble is 60 [Telegraph]
Commercial property tycoon, slipping down the rich list [This Is London]
Cluttons call the bottom... early 2009 [Mortgage Introducer]

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Anthea Turner: We may lose our mansion [News of the World]
Inside Track's Jim Moore - he's back, and he's feeling carnivorous [PropertyHawk]
Jean-Christophe Novelli loves ze Luton [Times]
Army officer moves into Diana's old gaff at taxpayers' expense [Mail on Sunday]
The Guardian's new home [Guardian]

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Congratulations Greene & Co [FindaProperty]
Cut interest rates and suspend stamp duty, demand agents [Estate Agency News]
How to buy a repo [Telegraph]
So how're we going to pay for 2012? [BBC]
More bad news for btl landlords [Telegraph]

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Triple credit crunch blow to Lord Foster [PropertyWire]
Halifax removes collar [Observer]
Credit crunch to spark squat rock revival? [Guardian]
Outlook for 2009, not so great [PropertyWire]
The British brick mountain [Times]
Rock accused of selling off repos at bargain prices [Daily Mail]
Help for buy-to-let repo tenant victims [BBC]

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Hmmm... save, or pay off that mortgage? [Fool]
Are you feeling down-valued? [Times]
Banks v Brown, here we go again [Telegraph]
Man found at bottom of lift shaft in Kingston apartments [London News]
Bovis Homes still has some staff... duh! [Contract Journal]

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

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Expensive typo icing on sell-to-rent-back disaster cake [BBC]
Repos to hit 75,000 [Peston's Picks]
Government to "hit banks where it hurts" [Independent]
FSA orders Halifax to follow rates [Times]

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Met to buy their own home [PropertyWeek.com]
New property show to Channel 4 [4homes blog]
Another bank down the drain [Times]
In NY: landlords show a leg [Curbed]
Tony Woodley, likes his home comforts [Daily Mail]
The only entirely Guy Ritchie-less house in London... it's Guy Ritchie's! [Fametastic.co.uk]

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

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Congratulations! You own a new bank... [BBC]
Hey... estate agents have started selling houses again [Telegraph]
King of tenants promises trouble [Times]
New homes for Tower Hamlets [London.gov.uk]
The UK property conundrum [International Herald Tribune]

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Mr Blatherskite thinks we're near the bottom of the bust [Blatherskite]
Capital Economics disagree [Telegraph]
In depth economics [4homes forum]
Faith in Darling and Brown? Nobody wants to bet on it [Telegraph]
MPC's David Blanchflower: See? I'm not as mad as I look... [Guardian]
The Thames Estuary might be lovely [Times]

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Dollis Hill House back on danger list [Londonist]
US house prices down in September [FT]
Darling's plan fails to impress [Metro]
Paragon's profits: down but not out [BBC]

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100,000 empty homes in London [This Is London]
Why not build a house... somebody's got to [Sunday Mirror]
London's councils need £350m to rescue building plans [This Is London]
Secret diary of an estate agent [Observer]
Can Mark afford to move out of his parents' home? [Independent]
Living in a folly [Sunday Times]
FTBs discover the auctions [Sunday Times]
Should this blogger turn lender? [Patrick.net]

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New York as bad as London, for volume [The Real Deal]
Family upsizers hit hard by system [Telegraph]
FT blogger: "Hopefully Foxtons will go bust" [Londonist]
The young are downsizing [Times]
130 famiilies losing homes each day [Daily Mail]

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Rough Luxe - a truly original London hotel [Wallpaper]
Credit crunch forces Wembley back into Olympic venue contention [Guardian]
Sales are up [Telegraph]
The expensive streets of west London [WhatMortgage]

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In Glasgow, ftbs queue for one-day-only bargains {Estate Agent Today]
Hamptons pull out of flotation [Estate Agent Today] Kirstie & Phil a hit on R1 [BBC blogs]
Up to 40% of btl-ers face negative equity (... by 2009... maybe) [Telegraph]
Globrix forced to pay for listings [Renthusiast]
Phil Spencer uncovers foxy property twins [Sunday Times]

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House prices still rising in Edinburgh [Scotsman]
In Russia, interest rates reach 12% [Telegraph]
Now Paulson won't buy up the dodgy mortgages [Guardian]
Dubai hit by property price crash [FT]
The latest lottery that's not a lottery: buy a gizmo, win an apartment [Daily Mail]

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Lloyds trackers hiked [Metro]
Wave of negative equity in US [Channel 4]
Tower Hamlets: "healthy town"? [BBC]
Chic to share [Telegraph]
Crunch hits Mayfair... now's the time to buy that used Ferrari [Wealth Bulletin]

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Prescott suffers after buying luxury London flat at market peak [Daily Mail]
Bank of England has "lost its marbles" [Telegraph]
Toprak Mansion "secretly" owned by president of Kazakhstan [Sunday Times]
Chelsea deny new south-of-the-river stadium plans [Sunday Times]
Soho porn'n'property mogul writes son out of inheritance [Mail]

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Lenders cut rates, but not before pulling trackers [Metro]
Buy property... now [Evening Standard]
HousingPANIC blog says goodbye [HousingPANIC]
Mail wins trust of south London estate agents, then calls them smug, pushy in headline [Daily Mail]
The five craziest mortgage deals [Times]
Learning from the past [BBC]
Is a 0% bass rate a possibility? [Money Week]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Affordable housing wait... up [Channel 4]
Chesterton heads for Lake Como [The Move Channel]
Blow the expense... the £100,000 kitchen [Telegraph]
Second homeowners remain a blight on seaside towns [Telegraph]

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London lettings market "fragile" in 2009 [Property Wire]
At home with Cath Kidston [Sunday Times]
Estate agents falling like leaves [Estate Agent Today]
250,000 empty homes [Introducer Today]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Lloyds TSB underfire for blocking interest-only mortgage switches [Times]
A week in online property [Zoomf]
What crunch? London's £403,000 crapper... [Times]
Sinitta can't sell Putney house... who's Sinitta? [TheMoveChannel]
Madonna's divorce... the property angle [International Herald Tribune]
Slump hits London's rich [FT]

The Rat and Mouse - it's about your house

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Buyers walk away from 40% of new home deals [Scotsman]
1.2m face negative equity [Telegraph]
The great fixtures and fittings swindle [Telegraph]

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A consonant, a vowel, a cononant, another consonant... Voderman's forced to slash price of London flat [Daily Mail]
Fire at actor's Hampton Court Road home [BBC]
Want to sell to an oligarch... how to Russian it up [Sunday Times]
High end rents heading less high end [Sunday Times]
Another year of house price falls [Times]

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It's Capital Economics again [Daily Mail]
How safe is your bank? [Yahoo!]
Burglars Top Twenty Fave Postcodes [FindaProperty.com]

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Deripaska's £50m Belgravia crash pad [Daily Mail]
Arsenal's residential property developments still on target for profit [Bloomberg]
How to dump your partner without injuring your assets [Telegraph]
Expect tough love from the agents [Sky]
Negative equity needn't be stressful [This Is Money]
London squalor [24 Dash]

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Meet the neighbours... online [Telegraph]
Nationwide tracker deals... feel the pain [Times]
The Fool defends mortgage fees [Fool]
Somebody's predicting a giant 35% house price crash... guess who? It's the CE bunch... [Daily Mail]
Now the bankers are selling [Monsters & Critics]

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Advice for struggling mortgage payers [Independent]
Brokers broken by lenders [FT]
Shared equity... confusing [Mortgage Strategy]
Aga, not so hot [Telegraph]
The Telegraph finds happy property people [Telegraph]
How are the estate agents surviving? [BBC]