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- Loco Home - Tenement case study on Vimeo vimeo.com
Making homes more energy efficient through insulation and air tightness can give superior comfort levels while also cutting carbon and bills. However, traditional solid-walled buildings present particular challenges. Lisa Pasquale will show how superior comfort can be achieved on a modest budget with appropriate insulation materials and careful draught-proofing.
- Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong noahpinion.substack.com
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- The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress worksinprogress.co
Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
- How a cash-strapped generation fell for the fantasy world of the Modern House | Art and design | The Guardian theguardian.com
The great escapism ... a Modern House-marketed property in Twickenham, west London.Photograph: The Modern House T he Drive curves quietly through the green of…
The proposed development for Leith Walk.Photograph: Drum Property Group Like most ports, Leith has always been a place of change – and never more so than over…
- Mortgage Brokers for Contractors & Independent Professionals freelancerfinancials.uk.com · Archived on
Our specialty is securing mortgages for contractors and freelancers based on contract earnings alone. Not take-home pay. Not payslips. Not accounts. Your…
- Letting Agent Or Landlord Responsible For Securing Deposit? propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk
You are here: Landlord Blog » Landlord Articles » Tenant Security Deposits » Letting Agent Or Landlord Responsible For Securing Deposit? Is it the Landlord’s…
- My $3500 Tiny House, Explained mrmoneymustache.com
- Locoblades Mortgage Spreadsheet locostfireblade.co.uk
Kitchen extensions, house extensions and loft conversions in London Book a Site Visit 21 May OR 23 May 020 7495 6561 Book Now Book a Site Visit 21 May OR 23 May…
- Canary Wharf: life in the shadow of the towers | Jane Martinson theguardian.com
T he house I lived in, growing up on London’s Isle of Dogs, was beside a huge gate and high walls – impenetrable barriers even to the naughty kids who wanted to…
- Loft Conversion Beginner's Guide | Homebuilding & Renovating homebuilding.co.uk
This feature explains everything you need to know about planning your loft conversion project and, by way of an example, this step-by-step guide link shows how…
- The online brokers taking the misery out of mortgages theguardian.com
Mortgages made easy ... online brokers make the process hassle-free.Photograph: Alamy T hey market themselves as a hassle-free way to get a home loan, where you…
- We want to put our flat on Airbnb – any advice? theguardian.com
Illustration: Bill Brown
- From Zero to Wealthy in Two Years – With AirBnb? mrmoneymustache.com
Zeona M. enjoys a recent day at the office. By this point you probably know all you ever wanted to know, and more, about Mr. Money Mustache’s long-ago path to…
- The Modern House themodernhouse.com
Selling Britain's most exceptional living spaces Learn more Featured Testimonials “ I must say that your agency stands out beautifully in this crazy property…
- Should we use the London help-to-buy scheme to purchase a home? theguardian.com
Sold on help to buy? A reader needs advice on buying a new-build home using the government scheme.Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters Q My little family are…
- Who owns England? map.whoownsengland.org
Who owns England? Land ownership map Who Owns England? Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets. This map is a first attempt to display…
- The fall and rise of the council estate theguardian.com
A ysen Dennis loves her flat. Two bedrooms, a neat kitchen-diner, a cosy living room, lots of light, a separate toilet and bathroom, and a much broader hallway…
A group of young men look at a Lamborghini sports car stopped in a waterfront park in Vancouver.Photograph: Andy Clark/Reuters “H ere’s one,” says Melissa Fong.…
- Barclays offers 0% deposit mortgage to home buyers theguardian.com
The need to raise a large deposit is often blamed for stopping people from getting on the property ladder.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The no-deposit mortgage has…
Home being built 1. Help to Buy Shared Ownership: current restrictions on who can buy a home through shared ownership will be removed from April 2016 Shared…
I remember when a friend of mine moved to Paris in the 90s to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He came back to England, disillusioned, five years later, calling the city "a museum" – mummified, stagnant, a victim of its own past glories, bought up by rich outsiders who'd out-priced the creative vibe that drew them there in the first place. The locals, wistful and resigned, referred to their city as "The Sleeping Beauty", looking on enviously at how London was ablaze with the best art, the best music, the best nightlife, the best creativity of any stripe, while they were left with only fine wine and memories, as Uncle Monty might have put it. Is London headed the same way as The Sleeping Beauty – an exquisite corpse, too dolled up and expensive for the creativity it's still trading on to flourish, or even survive?
- Freelancer mortgage application checklist: everything you need to provide freelanceadvisor.co.uk · Archived on
- London’s Great Exodus nytimes.com
The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in owning their shelter, but a place for the world’s richest people to park their money at an annualized rate of return of around 10 percent. It has made my adopted hometown a no-go area for increasing numbers of the middle class.
The NTS has a wide portfolio of properties which are leased for residential, commercial and agricultural purposes. The properties are mostly of historical and/or architectural interest and we are looking for tenants who, like us, are committed to maintaining Scotland’s built heritage through a sensitive approach to building conservation, taking into account the special character and location of the buildings.
The National Trust owns more than 4,000 houses and cottages that are let for people to live in as their home. The types of property vary considerably, from small terraced cottages or flats converted from farm buildings, to modest period homes, some of which may be open to the public.
- Hidden London | Kingsbury hidden-london.com
Because Kingsbury is not a highly desirable area, most of Trobridge’s enchanting homes are not in the condition they deserve to be. After the war, Wembley council built a major housing estate, destroying most of Kingsbury’s historic buildings in the process.
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | Getting a foot on that property ladder money.guardian.co.uk
There are plenty of schemes around now for first-time buyers - including some that allow parents to help their offspring.
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | What first-time buyers are really being sold money.guardian.co.uk
This week the government pressed home its message that it wanted to assist would-be property buyers. Rupert Jones looks at the plans in detail and asks how many will be helped
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | First-time buyers money.guardian.co.uk
- Islington: Growth: Highbury | British History Online british-history.ac.uk
- Islington: Growth: Newington Green and Kingsland | British History Online british-history.ac.uk