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200p

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  1. They are closing the Natwest bank down there too. I wonder if the Surf Reef is working out? Most have a tenant in situ - yields circa 5% http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64854590.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39220992.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39221829.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39217242.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39219978.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63699530.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39218802.html http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39221835.html
  2. Cor, there's one on every street corner in London. We have the Capital of Speculation! --- Do most people honesty think over the long term they can beat the bookie?
  3. I didn't know London had 1000 bookmakers. Like coffee shops, there's an over supply!
  4. We are rich - look at all those new cars on the road, and all those high value properties in the EA windows.
  5. I am surprised dropping the Kerb wasn't the first thing done on the refurb. A quick check on the local council website, should give you a fixed price on having it done - usually less than for £2K. You have to think if you bought it what you could improve on it - a dropped kerb might add £10-30K value depending on scarcity of parking in the area, which reduces your risk if you buy. £375K sounds a lot for most people in the UK. But you have to calculate your unknown pros in your situation that we on the forum don't know about you. If you earn £85K in the city, your job is reasonably safe and you have a £100K deposit, then that seems a reasonable bet. IF the Trump/Brexit years coming up is the start of a long structural boom then the timing might be right. We won't know for a while though. The mainstream media are terribly pessimistic over Trump/Brexit and for the Contrarian, this might provide an opportunity. Cheeky offer of £300K?
  6. Here's some free ideas for EA losing out. -Go 100% online - is there a letting agency that is 100% online? It looks like a new area. We have Purple Bricks. For the Tenant side: -Sell new products. Tenant Insurance? In case the "nasty" landlord does a runner. -Bi-annual Tenant Health checks £100. Basically like a pack agreed amongst other Letting Agencies to say how good you are. Like a no claims bonus for driving saving you money. -Experian-type Tenant Score improvement appointments linked to the above. Etc. Invent a load of admin type stuff that can be wrapped up into a product, packaged and sold.
  7. “Perhaps the best solution is for agents to focus on the opportunities that a ban will create. “Using their own client data to generate substantial new revenue streams from third party providers is a case in point – an approach that we have been working on with many of our clients for some time.” Make sure you tick the box - that you do not want your data to be sold on.
  8. ....and gold went up $15. It really depends who's at the helm that affects the markets it seems. We have to learn new rules in this new game.
  9. The stock market hasn't flinched. I think this will be a continuing trend of rising stocks, and rising interest rates to (try) keep a lid on it. I think we could well see interest rates at 5-7% by the last year of Trumps reign.
  10. So if 100% of the nation was on Zero hours, then Unemployment would be 0%. Does Zero hours = Full employment?
  11. May not in terms of gold, but maybe against £... maybe. Post Brexit and all.
  12. $1100 was the last major high, it may hold, and it is normal for a breakout to pull back to the breakout price. But if that doesn't go to plan, then there is no plan.
  13. He’s also received helicopter and car transport worth more than 8,000 pounds from Countrywide Developments Ltd. to take him to a reception, and travel, accommodation and dinner in Paris for himself and his wife worth 4,087 pounds from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News. From that article. Why would their own media outlet reveal this kind of stuff. It's like some sort of hidden handshake - partly it's a small news story, and partly to say, do what Osborne did, and you too will be rewarded like this. This is isn't about revelation or exposure, this is the model politician they are presenting.
  14. Don't knock that vintage Ford Escort. Ask if the owner will throw that in there. It will be a modern classic.
  15. Super bowl like chart. This is all time new highs. This could fly from here. Do your own research, no investment advice.
  16. Tell them you have a broken lawn mower to sell for £50. They go, what's that got to do with anything? Then you go, well, why are you trying to sell me something that has nothing to do with me?
  17. Potato vision is 144p lol. Purple Bricks now taking off. £3.00 today.
  18. Round numbers have a significance. It isn't the full story of course. Ask yourself why business price things at a certain level. £9.99, £12.99 etc.
  19. Doveish - the hair is a dead give away!
  20. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/parents-buy-son-flat-he-beats-them-up-because-it-is-too-small/vi-AAkF8lp?ocid=mailsignout Imagine this. Your parents buy you a house. You don't like it. So you beat up your parents. It's a mad world. Shocking footage, from China, of a son beating up his parents allegedly because the apartment they bought for him was "too small". The video, filmed in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province on November 12, shows the young man assaulting a man and a woman in the middle of the street. According to local reports, the couple were the young man's parents. The incident allegedly took place because he was was not happy with the wedding present they bought him. The man's parents reportedly claimed their son has a mental illness. He was arrested but was only given a warning by police.
  21. In basic language: Open house viewing = letting 20 cat's loose in a unfamiliar house. And then letting a rabid Rottweiler in there. AND then trying to round up all your cats afterwards at the end.
  22. I have always felt that open house viewings would be a disaster in the making, and a test case would come soon enough. 1. EA's are given a house that they are unfamiliar in - they have limited time to check everything out. Also they have limited training in spotting potential hazards. They were told about the well, but what about unknown unknowns, especially from a probate sale? 2. People's houses don't always confirm to the latest building regulations. E.g. Outdoor swimming pools without barriers. 3. The public don't take responsibility for your safety. So if the floor is covered with toys, the owner isn't going to pick them up for the view. Think slips and trips. 4. People's houses don't have health and safety equipment. E.g. wet floor signs, spill kits, barriers. 5. When you let the public loose in a house unsupervised, they will look for trouble as they believe everything has been made safe - that is the wrong assumption. The EA will have children out of their sight, and parents will let their children run loose. 6. I don't know if ANYONE is insured during a open house viewing - perhaps this can be a new product for the insurance companies, and a legal requirement going forward. 7. If the EA did look at the well, is he/she equipped to make it safe? Are they given barriers, warning signs in 56 languages in the boot of the car to make the well safe? Perhaps the EA agent can sue their employer too for, failure of supplying the equipment. 8. The public generally will have accidents on the slightest deviation from a perfect floor. Someone could have tripped on a uneven paving stone in the garden for example.
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