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Is it my imagination, or are the blackberries ripening earlier and earlier each year?
Lexi Lennard, London SE20
Continue reading...Buying and selling houses inevitably comes with highs and lows. A particular low can be when buyers drop out. But what should you do if the worst happens? And how can you be in the best position to prevent it? Identify the issue and deal with it A sale could fall through for a number […]
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Demand for all UK property is up, but price range reflects chancellor’s £500,000 limit
The number of buyers looking for homes has surged in the month since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, with demand for properties costing between £500,000 and £750,000 showing the biggest uptick, according to figures from the UK’s largest estate agency chain.
Between 8 July and 8 August, the number of people registering to buy across the country was up by 38% on the same period last year, boosted by the stamp duty holiday on properties costing up to £500,000, Hamptons International said.
Continue reading...Readers respond to a piece by Jonathan Freedland in which he addresses Boris Johnson’s cronyism and the wasting of taxpayers’ money
The sleaziness at the heart of Boris Johnson’s government should surprise nobody (It’s taken just 12 months for Boris Johnson to create a government of sleaze, 7 August). In the months leading up to his becoming leader of the Tory party, revelations about Johnson’s unreliability, dishonesty, self-interest and lack of concern for others filled many column inches in this paper and elsewhere.
But things are different now that he has his hands on the levers of power and an unassailable majority – secured off the back of not being Jeremy Corbyn and a promise to “level up” the regions. While success in the first objective was guaranteed, the prospect of rebalancing the relationship between London and the rest of the country was always likely to present a much bigger challenge – even before the pandemic.
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