Category Archives: General

Zoopla Heatmaps. Zoopla have introduced a new way of looking at house values. They’ve invetned a heatmap of UK property values. You can zoom right in and see all the different roads at different colours. It’ll show you road by … Continue reading →

See this news item on the Daily Mail – Wintershall, home for 40 years to Gary Brooker, writer of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, is on the market for £2million Chiddingfold Road, Dunsfold, Surrey GU8 4PB Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-2023668/Our-2m-Procol-Haven-Whiter-Shade-Of-Pale-writer-sells-house-bought-27k-1971.html#ixzz1UWvSQLn6 Listed … Continue reading →

Oh my! I’ve never seen a bathroom with an outside door before. I’ve seen outhouses but not one like this! Flat for sale in Gilbey Rd, Tooting, London SW17 – 2 bedrooms It has an ssking price of £279,999

This house is very small at the front and gets bigger at the back. Great if you like strange shaped rooms. As well as three bedrooms it also has a decent size garden and a row of five garages.

Barratt depends on shared equity for around 25% of its sales. This is interesting to know when you realise that they’re looking at selling off that part of their loan book. Shared equity is a horrible idea! It’s propped up … Continue reading →

I don’t like this style of advert. It doesn’t list the property – just telling you there’s an expensive house somewhere that you might like to buy if you have more than £3.5M to spend. This mystery house is in … Continue reading →

Perfect House? I worry when I see people say they’ve found their dream house. They describe it as perfect and say they love it! Don’t buy a house with emotions! I know you need hard cash and a level head. … Continue reading →

If you don’t like tidying up when you have viewings then you’ll perhaps appreciate this untidy house. The cobwebs have taken some time to grow! View the whole house here.

It’s not going to be often I stray off the houses on here, but this is still sort of related. Google maps is great. It shows you all sorts of things. What the area looked like a couple of years … Continue reading →

You might not get a mortgage on a property if a surveyor spots knotweed in the garden. Japanese Knotweed is an invasive plant that needs specialist treatment to get rid of it. You can treat it yourself but it takes … Continue reading →