interestrateripoff Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Divorcee with £300,000 savings wants to downsize – but her adult children have nowhere else to live Self-employed Karen Thomson wants to downsize to improve her security but she must wait until her daughters can afford to fly the nest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Divorcee with £300,000 savings wants to downsize – but her adult children have nowhere else to live Self-employed Karen Thomson wants to downsize to improve her security but she must wait until her daughters can afford to fly the nest she wants a 3 bed house to share with her 4 dogs and wonders where on earth her 2 adult children will live oh the humanity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill D'arblay Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 (edited) Karen, who runs a thriving small-business consultancy, is in a better financial position than a lot of people her age. But she still has some very valid concerns about her future security. She earns enough to pay 40pc higher-rate tax and has amassed a £200,000 pension. She is recently divorced and has retrained as an animal behaviour expert, giving her the option to establish a lucrative sideline business. Let me see... she has got £500,000 salted away. She 'runs a thriving small-business consultancy' yet she wants to embark on a Mad Woman Business as a dog whisperer? Translation: She managed to extract £500,000 from her ex. She is sick of running around installing, replacing and maintaining potted plants and flowers at local businesses - besides it's not enough to live on. Being recently divorced she hasn't had time to salt her 'savings' into ISA's so she is paying higher rate tax on about 1% of her FTSE gains from this last year. The pot plants do not give her the income she is so obviously entitled to and her friends told her about dog whispering at a dinner-party just before they went off skiing at Easter. Edited April 14, 2015 by Bill D'arblay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Let me see... she has got £500,000 salted away. She 'runs a thriving small-business consultancy' yet she wants to embark on a Mad Woman Business as a dog whisperer? Translation: She managed to extract £500,000 from her ex. She is sick of running around installing, replacing and maintaining potted plants and flowers at local businesses - besides it's not enough to live on. Being recently divorced she hasn't had time to salt her 'savings' into ISA's so she is paying higher rate tax on about 1% of her FTSE gains from this last year. The pot plants do not give her the income she is so obviously entitled to and her friends told her about dog whispering at a dinner-party just before they went off skiing at Easter. These puff pieces always seem to have'savings' at a level that appears impossible to achieve in the real world, and probably just come down to inheritance or a windfall of some sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Death trap pair jailed Two ‘arrogant and greedy’ property developers have both been jailed for a year, after a three-storey building collapsed, trapping three people in the rubble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 (edited) Labour to burst luxury London property bubble just as 8,000 s*****y pads go on sale High-end sales in central London will drop by a third if Ed Miliband's party win the election, paralysing the market 4 Comments the word S W A N K Y has been filtered in the above link. The swear filter cannot take it! Edited April 16, 2015 by interestrateripoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentimmo Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 "S W A N K Y" Pure bubble-speak. I love it. This baby is going to blow soon hopefully. Judging by the tons of recent articles and tv programs weeping at the plight of the poor babes struggling in their mega million London pads....it's like the 90s all over again. Bring it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shindigger Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 "S W A N K Y" Pure bubble-speak. I love it. This baby is going to blow soon hopefully. Judging by the tons of recent articles and tv programs weeping at the plight of the poor babes struggling in their mega million London pads....it's like the 90s all over again. Bring it on. See also "F U N K Y". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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interestrateripoff Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 UK house price pick-up 'worrying' House prices in most areas of the UK outside London and the North are still rising, according to a poll of property surveyors. BBC slightly off message here. The normal ed must be on holiday or something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Sheffield’s £155,000 homes cost almost seven times average salary The average house price in Sheffield is £155,000 - almost seven times the average salary of residents, according to new figures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmt Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Sheffield’s £155,000 homes cost almost seven times average salary The average house price in Sheffield is £155,000 - almost seven times the average salary of residents, according to new figures. At the moment there is this argument that because rates are so low the "old" affordability metric basic on salary multiples is irrelevant. I saw Javid using this argument on newsnight when he was promoting HTB. Only the monthly payment is relevant apparently (and the deposit, but the govt. has got your back on that one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 At the moment there is this argument that because rates are so low the "old" affordability metric basic on salary multiples is irrelevant. I saw Javid using this argument on newsnight when he was promoting HTB. Only the monthly payment is relevant apparently (and the deposit, but the govt. has got your back on that one). Which is fine if you have a 12 month mortgage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 London enters the age of the skyscraper: 260 tower blocks set to transform the capital's skyline... but are they ruining it? Around 70 tall buildings are under construction, with nearly 200 more planned - despite London's reputation as a 'low-rise' city with just a few skyscrapers concentrated in small pockets. Cheerleaders say the massive change is the only way to deal with London's housing crisis by increasing the density of the inner city. But critics insist the new tower blocks are being built to serve foreign investors who are likely to leave the buildings empty. Pictured is an artist's impression of the City of London after the wave of new skyscrapers is built, with an inset map of the towers currently under construction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Lucky tenants who get to live in £3million flats for just £150 a week set to benefit further from new right-to-buy windfall A number of people are paying around £150 a week to live in flats in exclusive parts of Mayfair and Covent Garden in London which are owned by housing associations and worth several millions. Like winning the lottery??? But where will the next lot live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Lucky tenants who get to live in £3million flats for just £150 a week set to benefit further from new right-to-buy windfall Like winning the lottery??? But where will the next lot live? Under the Thames. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 UK obsession with DIY is dead because Britons prefer to hire a Eastern European builder instead, says Travis Perkins boss Once a nation of home improvement addicts, the FTSE 100 boss said that Britons could no longer be bothered to do up their own homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy T Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I'm not sure if this is common or not on twitter, but came across this property ramping tweeter in my postcode area who claims to *NOT' be an estate agent, but loves property - all the tweets are promoting certain EA's in the area, pushing price barriers and bragging about massive numbers of viewings on certain roads/houses. Wondering who is behind it - certain EA's clubbing together, or the council/local business group, Rightmove??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 M41proptwit.jpgI'm not sure if this is common or not on twitter, but came across this property ramping tweeter in my postcode area who claims to *NOT' be an estate agent, but loves property - all the tweets are promoting certain EA's in the area, pushing price barriers and bragging about massive numbers of viewings on certain roads/houses. Wondering who is behind it - certain EA's clubbing together, or the council/local business group, Rightmove??? Michael Green? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Which Prime Minister knocked half a million off the price of 10 Downing Street? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Fracking could wipe tens of thousands of pounds off house pricesEstate agents fear fracking will collapse house prices and sales in Lancashire, Manchester and Sussex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 We let out our home online... it was used for drug-fuelled orgy Couple return to find that revellers who hired home for 'wedding guests' via Airbnb, caused £40k in damage after 100-person 'drug-induced orgy' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Election 2015 International investors rush back into UK property market Conservative election victory seen as bringing certainty back into the property market What does a Tory majority mean for small businesses?Great news all round! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 House prices in Britain climb £100 a day in April - just the start of a new spike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Home Flipping Profits Hit Record As Wall Street Drives Speculation (Again) There's never been a better time to be a home flipper. Not only are average returns at all-time highs (you can double your money in Baltimore), you can even obtain cheap financing from Wall Street as opposed to dealing with pesky local banks. Better still, there's a very good chance you won't have to deal with annoying aspiring homeowners because according to RealtyTrac, the percentage of flipped homes sold to other "investors" is at a four-year high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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