iSold.com: Sell Your House With Tesco
March 9th, 2010
Tesco is running a trial of its new online home selling service through a joint venture with estate agent Spicerhaart.
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Dragon’s Den Star Aims To “Kick-Start Property Market”. Why?
September 20th, 2009
Dragon’s Den star James Caan has a new scheme to offer homebuyers an interest-free loan of up to £50,000 to cover the stamp duty on their new property.
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Selling Your House Without An Estate Agent
June 16th, 2009
In the past week I’ve noticed a couple of houses locally with homemade for sale boards outside, which got me wondering whether more people are deciding to sell their houses without employing the services of an estate agent?
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Reminder: Tips For Those Struggling To Pay Mortgage
April 6th, 2009
A recent visitor to Money Watch found the site through the following search term on Google:
“can you stop paying your mortgage if house is for sale”. There’s a simple answer to this question: NO!
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House Prices Will Fall Further: Graphs
March 12th, 2009
MoneyWeek has posted some pretty interesting evidence to suggest that now still might not be the right time to start buying properties again, and that house prices could fall even further in the near future, despite there being a few more positive signs in the housing market in recent weeks.
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Say I Love You This Weekend…
February 13th, 2009
…with a well insulated loft.
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Stamp Duty Confusion Affects 83% Of Movers
August 26th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago Alistair Darling appeared to suggest there may be plans afoot to change the way stamp duty was charged, causing widespread uncertainty in the housing market as people waited for confirmation.
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Stamp Duty Confusion
August 7th, 2008
Looks like the Chancellor, Alistair Darling is in a bit of a mess over possible changes to stamp duty.
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Why First Time Buyers Should Haggle Harder Than Ever
May 30th, 2008
Yesterday I talked about haggling for discounts and mentioned my biggest discount; getting £4,000 off the price of our house.
As John pointed out in the comments, this probably wasn’t the greatest deal ever done, as the average house apparently sells for 93% of the asking price, whereas …
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Poll: How Much Of Your Income Is Spent On Your Mortgage / Rent?
May 4th, 2008
We’re all aware of the increasing prices of food, fuel etc., as well as the difficulty in finding low mortgage rates (despite the Bank of England base rate falling recently, we can blame the credit crunch for the tougher borrowing conditions).
One of the worries is that as these costs …
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