Surge in house sales to escape new rules (The Observer) (Property)
Surge in house sales to escape new rules (The Observer)
Householders are rushing to put their property up for sale before June to avoid paying 450 for compulsory Home Information Packs (Hips).
Become lord of a ruin, for a price (The Observer)
Fed up with being just Mr or Mrs Average? Keen to join the ranks of the privileged few? Happy to spend more than 170,000 on what looks like little more than a dilapidated old barnyard? If the answers are yes, yes and yes, then read on.
Each to his own (Guardian Unlimited)
I once wrote of the Rev Ian Paisley that he wore his loyalism like a suit of shining armour. I was trying to be ironic, but irony rarely works in print, and he became rather proud of this phrase.
The freewheelin’ Bruce Langhorne: A musician and master chef (Independent)
On the morning of the explosion, Bruce Langhorne recalls, he had been pondering the question of what percentage of powdered magnesium could safely be included in a home-made mix of rocket propellant.
Surge in house sales to escape new rules (The Observer)
Householders are rushing to put their property up for sale before June to avoid paying 450 for compulsory Home Information Packs (Hips).
Britain’s best-known estate agent to sell up (Daily Telegraph)
Jon Hunt, the country’s most famous estate agent, is calling the top of the market, selling up and preparing to leave the business he founded 26 years ago.
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