Anthem for doomed youth
Posted by Cashzilla in credit cards, housing, insurance, lifestyle on 13. Aug, 2009 | 1 Comment
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It seems as though everything just keeps getting worse and worse for the 20 and 30 something generations.
As I look around at the economic landscape I just have to dispair these days. On the one hand the government suggests a bright future with great high paying jobs available for all graduates, and [...]
Zoopla.co.uk builds on Thinkproperty.com
Posted by Girdfossil in housing on 15. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Zoopla has bought Thinkproperty.com from the Guardian Media Group. In a sign of the teams you could read about this consolidation in the UK property portal market in the Zoopla blog.
Zoopla don’t just get a great brand. They’ve managed to secure themselves as the exclusive search partner for the Guardian.co.uk.
We agree with the wise words of Property Owl who hoot that there are still too many portals and that Zoopla now face the challenge of the integration. In particular Property Owl’s suggestion that an industry wide standard on property feeds would is an interesting idea and worth looking at.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s a fully equiped 3 bedroom des res
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 17. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Despite all the claims from the Government and reports from banks that the housing situation is getting better in the UK, it seems that this opinion is not shared by everyone. Either that or the relentless increase over past years in house prices, as rises continuously kept pace with or outstripped the comparatively meagre rises [...]
Increased regulation to be introduced to protect cave house renter
Posted by MoneyRaptor in housing on 05. May, 2009 | No Comments
Hoorah! for the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).
Following swiftly on from an announcement by the National Landlords Association, that UK housing tenants are more in debt than at any time since the late 1980s, and with the global financial crisis still making lenders cautious about taking on first-time buyers without requiring a big [...]
New Year, same housing situation?
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 10. Jan, 2008 | 5 Comments
The Halifax has announced that according to their figures, house prices were rising at an annual rate of just 5.2% in December, half the rate seen just three months earlier, the first time there had been an increase in the past four months.
David Kuo, head of personal finance at Fool.co.uk, said: “The long-overdue correction in [...]
What to do if the flood comes to your house
Posted by Cashzilla in housing, insurance on 03. Jul, 2007 | 3 Comments
As parts of the UK languish underwater, devastated by the recent floods, many homes and businesses are finding themselves in the difficult position of not knowing whether they will be covered by their insurance policies.
According to recent advice from the insurance industry, those who have been affected by the floods should contact their contents and [...]
The perils of the property ladder: has anyone noticed the silence?
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 26. Jul, 2005 | 3 Comments
There was a time when every conversation was focussed on property and every other TV programme was about property makeovers. Everybody wanted to get into property and those already on the ladder seemed fixated on becoming wealthy overnight. Remember those media-nominated millionaires who bought property for thousands and sold it for a million? [...]
Choosing a different kind of security
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 05. Jul, 2005 | 2 Comments
I liked the heading in the Sunday Herald last Sunday (3rd July 2005) …
“Sharp fall in first-time buyers casts a long shadow over housing market”
Oh I hope so.
1) I am fed up with my friends becoming anxious about getting on to property ladder, especially when they have to give up their social life to do [...]
Tune on, tune in and switch off
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 28. Jun, 2005 | No Comments
Normally I’m very happy to take responsibility for my own actions and assign this standard to the rest of the world. I have been very critical of my twenty-something contemporaries who have squandered their time at university not to mention the sheer speed at which they have burnt through their student loans and commercial [...]
Rent-boys and rent-girls
Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 10. Jun, 2005 | No Comments
There has been so much speculation in the news recently about house prices, mortgages and property. Whilst I agree that it’s important to invest for the future, I still rent and believe there are a few advantages.
Of course I want my own house, but I also don’t want to be tied down by property [...]
