Country solicitor

Come on, it does have it's own front door. And it's chain free-not sure if they mean the door or the transaction though!

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Property work has fallen off a cliff here. A very quiet start to our financial year- "unprecedented" in the words of the head of that department.

That tells you all you need to know about the build quality.

Raj, if you're really worried about the wig thing then I suggest you update your website with a few photos giving more prominence to your expensive watch. It really isn't too visible in some of the current pictures and would help to distract attention from your hair. Cheers CS

This is THE moment Realist Bear has been waiting for!

...with the other 50% being the price of large second hand cars with high fuel consumption.

Will you be do...do ...doing the funky gibbon?

A £2m interest only mortgage -I think he's about to fall off that scooter.

An understandable assumption regardless of the crazy price given that Foxtons include a picture headed "garages" showing five of them. Wonder which one it is? Perhaps it's an end of terrace garage thus inceasing the value?

The agents need their commission on this one, think of all the work that went into that floor plan!

Indeed, hence the irresistable attraction of "On street parking". You know they are desperate when one of the attributes listed includes the general right to leave your car on the public highway.

What happened to the new series-was it only 3 programmes long? Tonights effort is a repeat.

Excellent. Should make Property Ladder even more fun to watch as things implode. Hope Sarah Beeny is taking note. Lets hope other lenders follow suit as no doubt they will if they don't have similar restrictions in place already. I can't keep track of all the changes but they appear to be chasing each others tails in an attempt to make their lending criteria at least as tough as their competitors.

Can't wait to see the home page table updated with these and the Hometrack annual change figures-more lovely red arrows pointing downwards!

The agents seem clueless as to whether the house has four or five bedrooms-so perhaps they upped the price just in case it's the latter.

Yes, several last changed hands late last year and a couple as recently as February this year. People panicking and trying to offload? A staggeringly bad day for the auctioneers. Thanks to M21er for all the hard work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7371114.stm The cap on the total loan must be highly significant (if I am reading this correctly?) Does this indicate that regardless of the "value" of the property the Nationwide are taking the view that they now are going to limit their exposure to any one buyer, so that, for example, a high earner wanting a £600,000 loan on a £1.5M property isn't going to get it and will have to take a second charge with another lender to complete the purchase? (I note the 85% LTV condition meaning I take it that a loan of £500k would be possible on a property worth £588k or more) Is this new or do other lenders have a similar cap?

It's going to be a good week-the first thing I heard when I woke up this morning was the announcement of the Hometrack figures going Y-o-Y negative on the Today programme, then we have the Nationwide tightening further as detailed on the earlier thread and now this. I'm off to get a copy of the Telegraph so I can wave that headline around.

It means that anyone buying it will have to spend years trying not to think about whether the previous owner died there.

About as far as the next petrol station.

Canary Wharf-they must be anticipating lots of redundancies there.

Only Prime Location now showing a positive monthly figure on the House Price Statistics table on the HPC home page. It will be a sweet day when it's wall to wall red arrows!

If you can sell, and many lots appear not to be doing so. "Auction Result: Unsold" is appearing pretty frequently.

It appears to be for sale rather than "under offer" as far as I can see, so as yet no takers. Good to see reality bite this evening with one of the Wiltshire properties going for well under valuation.