SELL January 12, 2012 MANAGING DIRECTOR OF KAY & CO, CENTRAL LONDON ESTATE AGENCY Q. Should I buy a one bedroom flat in a better location, or go for a larger flat in a less sought after location? Is square footage or location king for investment? A. Statistically, in the long run, properties in more sought after locations will [...]
PROPERTY NEWS January 12, 2012 NEW KINLEIGH FOLKARD & HAYWARD OFFICE Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has opened a new branch in Borough. Borough as an area has been identified within Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward’s strategic five year branch expansion plan. With over 50 branches across London, 11 of which are located in the South East region, the new branch will [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT January 12, 2012 COMMUTING: Chorleywood station is in Zone 7 on the Metropolitan line, situated between Chalfont and Latimer and Rickmansworth. The majority of trains passing through Chorleywood are operated by London Underground, but the station is also a stop for Chiltern Railways, running between Marylebone and Aylesbury stations. EDUCATION: There are a great selection of local schools, [...]
THE LONDON BAROMETER January 12, 2012 Despite the economic and political turmoil December was a surprisingly busy month for sales at D&G and remarkably one of the best of the year. Looking back at 2011, pundits predicted modest falls worrying about the wider economy. The first half included The Royal Wedding and started slowly, but overall the year surprised everyone with [...]
The diet that weans you off junk food love January 12, 2012 THE MAN DIET BY ZOE STRIMPEL Avon, £7.99 *** TODAY’s young women are the daughters of the 1970s feminist pioneers; we’re liberated, financially independent, successful. There are no ceilings we can’t shatter, no asses we can’t kick. And yet. Something has gone wrong. A new generation of feminists argue that we have defeated the patriarchy, [...]
ARTS ROUND-UP January 12, 2012 STAR CROSSED LOVERS RETURN HOME Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet began at the Royal Opera House this week. The performance hangs on its leads Carlos Acosta and Tamara Rojo, who play the star-crossed lovers with aplomb despite being more than twice their age. Acosta is to ballet what Tom Cruise is to cinema – a [...]
A trite portrayal of war, and a horse that (gasp!) can’t act January 12, 2012 Film WAR HORSE Cert: 12A ** WAR Horse, Stephen Spielberg’s latest, shouldn’t be a film about horses, but it is. As a film, in which a boy’s beloved horse is sold to war and passes through the hands of a series of owners all caught up in war, it did nothing for me. Horses cannot [...]
Spacey and Irons shine in banking crash movie January 12, 2012 Film MARGIN CALL Cert: 15A **** IT’S 2008 and we’re in a Manhattan skyrise, in the offices of a bank that may or may not be based on Lehman Brothers. All hell is about to break loose when, following a round of sackings, a USB stick emerges from now-ex employee Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci). As [...]
Shard could signal crisis, claims BarCap January 11, 2012 THE DEVELOPERS of the Shard skyscraper could be forgiven for having pre-completion nerves yesterday, after a pair of gloomy research papers cast a pall over the tower. The Shard will be entering a rough rental market when it completes in May, according to research by BNP Paribas Real Estate. Last year, take-up of office space [...]
Cloud gaming is here – we ask if it was worth the wait January 11, 2012 Video games have come a long way since Mario helped to win over a generation of (almost exclusively) boys in the 1980s. Titles like Modern Warfare 3 are more profitable than most blockbuster Hollywood movies. The complexity and depth of games like LA Noire or the Bioshock franchise lend a cultural weight to an industry [...]