FOCUS ON: GUILDFORD June 28, 2012 ALBURY HEIGHTS Price: £4.95m Albury Heights is a substantial family home recently built in the Georgian style. It includes six bedrooms and six en suite bath/shower rooms, reception hall, drawing room, dining room, family room and office. Contact Savills on 01483 796 820 or go to savills.com. ENNISMORE AVENUE Price: £1.85m A five bedroom double-fronted [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT June 28, 2012 TRANSPORT Guildford is located within easy commuting distance of London but sits next to the rolling countryside so many City workers crave at the weekend. Guildford mainline station offers a frequent train service to London Waterloo taking approximately 35 minutes. A season ticket will cost £890 for three months or just over £3,000 for a [...]
Spider-Man reboot really is Amazing June 28, 2012 Reviews by Steve Dinneen FILM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Cert 12A **** Restarting a franchise just five years after the last one finished is either very brave or very cynical. Okay, it’s the second one – Spider-Man is one of Marvel’s hottest properties, guaranteed to fill cinemas. It is just as well, then, that Marc Webb’s [...]
House prices slip in June June 28, 2012 House prices dropped 0.6 per cent in June, according to figures from the Nationwide. It said the end of the stamp duty holiday in March, which lifted the market early in the year, had contributed. The annual fall in prices is 1.5 per cent, the sharpest decline in almost three years, the building society said.
Microsoft shows business social networks are big news – which one is right for you? June 27, 2012 Microsoft is no stranger to throwing huge amounts of money at markets it wants to break into – it did it with the Xbox and it’s in the process of doing it with its new Surface tablet. But even in this context, the $1.2bn it has agreed to pay for enterprise social network (ESN) Yammer [...]
SOCIAL NETWORKING IS EASY, RIGHT? June 27, 2012 MySpace It may still be running but it would take a particularly deluded kind of optimist to claim it has been anything but a disaster for News Corp, which bought it do $580m in 2005. This is how not to do it. Google Buzz It was heralded as the next generation of social networking but [...]
New property adviser sets up in Square Mile June 27, 2012 A new adviser in the residential property sector has set up in the Square Mile. Centrus will provide advice and solutions in treasury, debt capital markets, corporate finance and institutional funding. The Centrus team brings together some of the leading figures in UK housing finance. The company is led by Phil Jenkins who has more [...]
The surprising power of the slow June 26, 2012 Fuel-efficient, inexpensive, able to seat four and easy to park was British Motor Corporation’s original brief to designer Alec Issigonis for its Austin Design Office Project 15 back in 1957. Out of the Suez Crisis, ADO 15 became the original BMC Mini and carmakers have rarely managed to produce a car that’s as well-packaged since. [...]
CAR TALK June 26, 2012 Aston’s new Vanquish Aston Martin has revealed its new Vanquish model, which will replace the DBS. Available as a 2+2 or 2+0, the super GT has an upgraded 565bhp 6.0-litre V12 engine and is capable of 0-62mph in 4.1 seconds and 183mph. Styling cues including its elegant waist, elongated side strakes and LED rear lights [...]
The decade of booming house prices revealed… June 25, 2012 House prices in the UK’s most economically active areas surged upwards by an average of £228 a week according to a recent decade of data released yesterday. Homeowners in parts of the country with a high gross value added (GVA) score – a measure of the local economy – saw their properties rise in value [...]