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Michael Jackon’s Neverland Ranch sells for $22 Million
With millions of fans worldwide and a good few doubters also, but without question memorable music that is played over and over again – Michael Jackon’s Neverland Ranch, once priced at $100 million recently sold for $22 million. A friend of and previous business associate is the person who has purchased this famous property and…
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Planning granted for major modular homes scheme in Bristol
Planning consent has been granted for Legal & General Modular Homes to deliver 185 homes in Lockleaze, Bristol. The scheme, which has been developed in conjunction with Bristol City Council, will see two-, three- and four- bedroom houses along with one- and two-bedroom apartments developed on land at Bonnington Walk. 50% of the homes will…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 22/12/2020
WELSH HOUSING DRAGON ROARS Investment buyers, second homeowners and BTL buyers have been marginalised in many ways by creeping taxation and other factors, but in Wales with lightening speed a new raft of taxation on non-primary property purchase comes into force, two days before Christmas. With an additional 1% layer of SDLT tax being applied…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 21/12/2020
MENTAL WELL BEING Following the cancelled Christmas, which has understandably shaken agents and their loved ones, a new report has focused on the need for real estate companies to ‘keep connected’ to their employees, especially as WFH has become for many a default proposition. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE – TRENDS Depending on where you sit and…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 18/12/2020
SEASONAL UPTICK ON PROPERTY PORTALS – REALLY? Every year property portals, and this year it is ZPG championing the fact that there is an annual spike of activity around Christmas and the New Year on all platforms. Whilst this is true, there is a massive disconnect between Aunt Lizzy tuning into her favourite property website…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 17/12/2020
STAMP DUTY EXTENSION – 77,000 MORE SIGNATURES REQUIRED At present over 23,000 have signed a petition calling for the SDLT holiday to be extended, it needs another 77,000 signatories before parliament will debate it. Seven days ago the government stance was and still is … ‘The SDLT holiday was designed to be a temporary relief…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 16/12/2020
95% MORTGAGES LOANS ARE GOING, GOING WELL ALMOST GONE In what is perceived to be shades of the 2008 stranglehold on high loan to value lending there are now is in December less than a dozen mortgages which only require a 5% deposit. Eleven-months ago the figure was topping out at 400 mortgages to choose…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories TUESDAY 15/12/2020
CLOCK IS TICKING FOR NON-DOMS BUYING From the 1st of April there is another deadline looming, the imposition of the new 2% extra SDLT being imposed on property bought in the UK by those living outside the UK. The headline figures, well if are non-domicile and you are buying at 500K, and complete in April, you…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories
LSL IN THE MONEY? David Stewart GPE of LSL reports that LSL’s recent performance is in many ways a ‘curates egg’. Revenue levels dropped by nearly 20% in the last period, not surprising as they have been closing a number of branches. But a following wind, or Rishi’s SDLT holiday windfall has helped potential unexchanged…
Andrew Stanton
2021 forecast: 4% price growth as housing priorities outweigh uncertainties
Rightmove forecasts robust 4% national average price growth in 2021 as housing priorities stay high on people’s life agendas, though price rises for newly marketed properties will be at a slower pace than this year 2020’s unanticipated market momentum sees prices finish 6.6% up on 2019 despite a fall of 0.6% this month Busy Q1…
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We’ve reached 100,000 followers & members across Social Media!
I just wanted to let all our readers know that we are not merely a news channel website. The most important part of our concept is our fast growing communities across social media – These are the platforms and these hold the tools for you to expand your own network thus expanding your business reach….
Christopher Walkey
Reapit is now Showcase ready ! – https://vyomm.com/
From December, Estate Agents using Reapit will be able to use Vyomm’s tools and features directly from their Reapit account. Reapit, the industry standard CRM software have recently launched Cloud Based App Marketplace featuring The Vyomm Showcase Extention. Estate Agents can create immersive and attractive Property Showcases on Vyomm directly with a single tap from…
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Do Christmas Decorations Devalue your Home?
It’s that time of the year (though to be honest many have put them up a lot earlier due to the depressing covid-19 situation) that we look to put up Christmas decorations. From popping up in to the loft to retrieve that reliable old fake Christmas tree to spending the afternoon outside attaching all those…
Christopher Walkey
Labour MP court appearance on £63,000 Social Housing Fraud
Reported by many national press and Youtube news channels, it appears the continued negativity for Labour party continues with a member appearing in court following being ‘accused of failing to tell Tower Hamlets that she was ‘no longer living in overcrowded conditions‘. Reported on varied user generated news channels on Youtube, including one of Alex…
Christopher Walkey
Students urged to check before paying landlord and agent fees
A warning about illegal fees has gone out to students in Nottingham as their thoughts turn to accommodation for the next academic year. It has come from Nottingham City Council’s Trading Standards team and, while the advice applies to everyone, it is particularly timely for students seeking a place to live in 2021/22. The aim…
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