Category: Articles
Your style stamp:the top interior design tricks and tips to make a shared-ownership home your own
People often are excited to buy a home in order to put their own stamp on the property. However, with shared-ownership owners can meet restrictions for how to keep all parties happy in regards to interior design. Nicole Fontanella advises young Londoners to think about their apartments as a whole rather than a collection of […]
Saving for the future
Saving for the future is so unbelievably important. People underestimate the power of saving and investing funds into the market. If you are young, you should really start this practice as time is your greatest asset. The earlier you start to invest into something and start saving for the future, the better your returns will […]
More space for your money:where to find shared ownership homes with short commutes to London
There are a ton of different people who are trying to get into the property market in London. London is an area that is super exclusive to the rich and not many people can afford to live there. With that being said, it is shown to be a really good investment opportunity because of all […]
Red Hook: the hip New York enclave caught between gentrification and climate change
Red Hook is an awesome area in the upcoming city of Brooklyn. It is something that has been changing for a couple of years now. Many young people are headed out that way to live because of its proximity to New York and the culture that it adheres to. It is really fun and many […]
The high price of natural beauty when buying a house in a national park
According to recent Sevilla analysis, homebuyers will routinely pay an average of up to 50 percent more to live within an area of extraordinary natural beauty (AONB) or a national park. The highest premium on record, for Surrey Hills, was a gobsmacking 130 percent of what the property would otherwise be worth! People will pay […]
The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it | Brett Scott
Banks and other consumer financial institutions are making a concentrated effort to “nudge” consumers away from cash and physical bank branches in favor of electronic transactions that they control; this in turn lets them say there is more consumer demand. While convenient, electronic systems often have single points of failure and offer less privacy and […]
What property reforms do UK renters and homeowners want to see the most?
There have been eleven proposals for property sector reforms, and respondents gave their opinions on them. A majority of 55% of Brits support new laws prohibiting gazumping. 52% of people think caps should be imposed on property purchases by non-uk residents.49% think a house tribunal system should be introduced to review rises on rent. Only […]
I’m living a cash-only life in a tap-and-go world | Brigid Delaney’s diary
Electronic payments have taken the world by storm, but they have the great drawback of making impulse purchases psychologically and literally faster and easier. Guardian columnist Brigid Delaney recently tried the experiment of using cash whenever possible, and found it made her think more carefully about purchases. She found that the act of having to […]
Could banking with Facebook and Google become the future
A recent Mulesoft survey of 8000 people found that about half of young people would at least be open to the idea of doing their banking with companies like Facebook. It is not a leap of imagination to contemplate tech giants using their currently-existing user bases and infrastructure to branch into banking, especially when one […]
It’s not only Londoners who rely on buses and trains | Lynsey Hanley
Since the deregulation of buses occurred back in the year 1986, London has actually seen a decrease of public transportation usage down to a third of what it used to be. Although public transport still remains the number one method of travel among London residents, its popularity is steadily declining due to the increase of […]