London still outperforms the rest of the country June 28, 2012 Q What is happening to London prices at the moment? A London property continues to outperform the rest of the UK market. The latest official data showed that average house prices across the capital are up 5.1 per cent year on year, compared to a one per cent fall across England and Wales. The average [...]
Versace’s place is for sale at $125m… here are Europe’s rival celeb homes June 28, 2012 GOLFE POENTE Quinta do Lago, Portugal Artyon Senna, the late Brazilian race-driver, used this house as his European bolthole when competing in Europe. It’s a nine-bedroom estate with a flood-lit football pitch and tennis court, sunken trampoline, dog kennel and a spacious layout. Senna, born in a ritzy part of Sao Paulo in 1960, was [...]
To buy or not to buy: is the freehold worth aquiring? June 28, 2012 MANAGING DIRECTOR, KAY & CO Q I own an apartment in central London with a 125 year lease, which I am thinking of selling in the next couple of years. The other flat owners and I have been offered the opportunity to buy our freehold. Is this something I should do before I sell? A [...]
FOCUS ON: GUILDFORD June 28, 2012 THE GROVE Price: £695,000 A four bedroom townhouse with open plan living space, three bathrooms and accommodation over three floors. It has designer bathroom suites and traditionally styled kitchens with stone worktops. Contact Knight Frank on 020 7861 1033 or go to knightfrank.co.uk. BOXGROVE AVENUE Price: £895,000 A family home with accommodation arranged over three [...]
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 [...]