Techniques to Sell Your House

We Buy any House Experts - National Property Trade in Croydon.

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Hess triangle - WTF fun facts

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Thanks Grandma, but I’m going to use my headphones today.

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lol, who uses the term “whitey”?

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X2 Kamala, Phuket Beach Front Villas in Thailand.

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London still pays rent to the Queen on a property it leased in the 11th century. Every year, a ceremony is held at the Royal Courts of Justice and the city hands over its annual rent: a knife, an axe, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails. The price has stayed the same for more than 800 years even though nobody can really remember where the property is. Source

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Never mind the hipsters. It’s the property developers who are ruining our cities | Dan Hancox

Places like the Cereal Killer cafe are just part of the gentrification process. Developers and councillors will soon exploit them and price them out

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Is this the UK’s most expensive property?

Originally designed and built in 1910 as the London residence for William Lyle of the Tate & Lyle family, this imposing mansion has been newly extended and refurbished throughout to provide approx. 27, 000sq ft. Set in 2.5acres.

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Barlaston Hall, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

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The Guardian exclusively hosts Charlie Cunningham’s open letter the UK housing minister Grant Shapps. In the letter Charlie, CEO at Freshstart Living, expresses his views on the problems of the UK property market.

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The most recent survey of the UK property market has shown that sellers are increasingly able to enter the market with confidence as a ‘spring bounce’ in the market pushes asking prices up to the highest level ever recorded in the month of March.

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The 5 main stages to conveyancing infographic

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Links from the Writing London panel at Unlocked

For us none-Brits; the links from the panel held by Tysolna:

London map: 

Power outlets/double sockets: 

Electric shower head: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/TTT80PSLASH8C.JPG Pharmacy stuff and brands: http://www.boots.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?webrewrite=Y&langId=-1&storeId=10052&geoOpts=Y&catalogId=11051 Example of prices for flats in central London: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-51616013.html St Bart’s: http://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/Services/Service/DefaultView.aspx?id=220021 VAT rates: https://www.gov.uk/vat-rates Tube map: 

More on the Tube: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube-dlr-overground/status/ Crime and police: http://maps.met.police.uk/ Taxi fares: http://www.taxifarefinder.com/gb Taxi fare calculator; http://www.worldtaximeter.com/london Plan a journey in London; http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/ List of British words not likely to be used in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States More underground lines: 

Train rides; http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ Events in London: http://www.timeout.com/london Things to see in London; http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/whats-on PLEASE ADD MORE IF YOU LIKE!

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With the price of properties spiralling out of control in London where else is affordable to commuters?

      With the average London home costing around £500k is it any wonder why families would want to live outside of the commuter belt and pay less for a family home?  Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that within the space of a year, house prices in the capital have soared by 20.1%, allowing them to reach the average price mark of £500k.  As a result of this drastic rise, many families are questioning whether a move further out of the capital will be more achievable then buying bigger in the city. In addition to this, those who enjoy living the London lifestyle should cash in now whilst the market is hot and move out of the capital whilst still holding their existing jobs in the city.

This new way of thinking is perhaps a reflection of the latest report by the online estate agent emoov.co.uk who has reported that the average 3 bedroom home in London now costs around £600k. This price however is significantly higher depending on the borough. With this mind, emoov.co.uk has identified 5 locations around the M25 and within a commutable distance of the city which could change your mind entirely about whether city life is really worth the rocketing prices. Each of the identified towns have seen property prices rise with the last 3 years but have remained significantly lower than that of London prices.

The counties in which emoov.co.uk has picked their ultimate towns from are Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent and Oxfordshire. For each of the towns picked, the costs of a monthly rail season ticket have been detailed but please note, this does not include travelcards or undergrounds.

Colchester, Essex

 Home to both a castle and zoo and is also approximately 50 miles outside of London.

Average Cost: £225,789 New Family Home: £250,000 Commute time into London Liverpool Street: 50 minutes Monthly transport cost (without tube travelcard): £449.30 monthly rail ticket Price change in the last three years: 10.51%

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Recently received £50m in funding and is also within commuting distance of Oxford, Watford and Milton Keynes.

Average Cost: £232,535 New Family Home: £300,000 Commute time into London Marylebone: 59 minutes Monthly transport cost (without travelcard): £357.20 Price change in the last three years: 9.15%

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Recently developed and refurbished town centre, now boasting prestigious retailers and restaurants.

Average Cost: £288,677 New Family Home: £300,000 Commute time into London Paddington: 45 minutes Monthly transport cost (without travelcard): £448.60 Price change in the last three years: 16.33%

Basingstoke, Hampshire

Located 48 miles southwest of London, it is also within commuting distance of Reading, Oxford and Southampton.

Average Cost: £311,022 Family Home: £299,950 Commute time into London Waterloo or Paddington: 55 minutes Monthly transport cost (without travelcard): £391.30 Price change in the last three years: 14.27%

Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Is a large town with many shops and restaurants and is famously known for being home to the Pantiles.

Average Cost: £477,572 New Family Home: £325,000 Commute time into London Bridge or Charing Cross: 45 minutes Monthly transport cost (without travelcard): £409 Price change in the last three years: 15.13%

If you’re thinking of selling your London property and buying a house outside of the capital then contact us at LawStore Conveyancing today, for a fast, hassle free and cost effective solution.  For a free and instant conveyancing quote visit us online and see how much we can save you.

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The top north London celebrity Instagrammers to follow for interiors inspo

From Scrabble-loving Harry Styles to family man Jamie Oliver, and a Spice Girl with a secret passion for baking here are the top north London celebrity Instagram accounts to follow for interiors and lifestyle inspiration, plus where to get the look.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, you’ve probably had the (mis)fortune to hear of a certain boy band called One Direction. For better or worse, depending on your levels of music snobbery, they’re the modern day Beatles – complete with the hordes of screaming teenage girl fans.

Long haired, puckish lead singer Harry Styles relocated from east London to a £3 million home in north London, which he’s said to have dubbed the ‘perfect party pad’. However, despite being one of the richest young pop stars alive, the 22 year old appears to prefer a clean living lifestyles to all-night ragers, and can be spotted at pilates classes in Chalk Farm or shopping in the Whole Foods in Camden when he’s in town. His Instagram account is just as refined, featuring mainly tasteful black and white photos of gigs, moody street photography, and musical icons such as Patti Smith and Nirvana, often presented without a caption to his 10.6 million loyal followers. He also appears to have a penchant for a good game of scrabble, bless him.

Get the look: Proclaim your love to your own fans with a piece of personalised scrabble art from Not on the High Street. You can customise everything from the letters to the frame colour, although we’re pretty sure that Harry would pick the black option.

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Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank

Resolution Foundation says within a decade nine out of 10 Britons on modest incomes under the age of 35 will not afford home ownership

Nine out of 10 Britons on modest incomes under the age of 35 will be frozen out of home ownership within a decade, according to a study from a leading thinktank that lays bare the impact of surging property prices on the young.

As a backbench all-party committee of MPs warned that housing policy was “a mess”, the Resolution Foundation said those aged 18 to 34 faced the prospect of being permanent renters and that home ownership was increasingly becoming the preserve of the well-off and the elderly.

The thinktank, chaired by the former Conservative cabinet minister David Willetts, said that in 1998 more than half of people aged 16-34 living in households with incomes between 10% and 50% of the national average were buying their own homes. The percentage had dropped to 25% in 2013-14 and was on course to be 10% across the UK as a whole by 2025. In London it is forecast to be just 5% .

By contrast, the under-35 age bracket accounts for just 10% of homeowners, down from 19% in 1998. The typical 30-year-old is 30% less likely to own a home than was the case 15 years ago.