London’s housing market heats up with 25,000 new properties for sale in September October 8, 2015 London's housing market is hotting up again after a quiet summer, with 25,000 new properties listed for sale in September. The housing market traditionally picks up in the autumn, and there was 27.1 per cent increase in properties for sale in London between August and September this year, despite the housing shortage. Only [...]
Argos to launch same day delivery from UK stores as Amazon extends click and collect in London October 8, 2015 Home Retail Group is going head-to-head with Amazon and other retail rivals after announcing that Argos will offer same day delivery and collection from all of its UK stores. From today, customers will be able to order online by 6pm and get an item delivered by 10pm the same day, including Sundays, Argos said. [...]
Global rents for high-end homes at slowest rate of growth since 2010 October 8, 2015 Global rents for high-end homes grew at their slowest rate in more than five years in the second quarter, research out yesterday claimed. Knight Frank’s index of prime residential rents rose by 0.2 per cent in the year to June, down from 3.2 per cent two years earlier and marking the slowest rate of [...]
Google bought the most ridiculous domain name URL for Alphabet October 8, 2015 Anyone trying to out-wit Google can give up. When the tech company changed its name to Alphabet, many people took a guess at the URLs that it may have forgotten to register in a bid to buy it first, all in the hopes Google would then pay a pretty penny to get its hands on [...]
Great British Bake Off 2015 final attracts bigger audience than any England Rugby World Cup game with 13.4m viewers October 8, 2015 It turns out Britons are more in thrall to baking than brawn and prefer scrumptiousness to scrums, after last night's Great British Bake Off final attracted more viewers than any of England's games at the Rugby World Cup. England's disastrous World Cup campaign, exclusively broadcast by ITV, pulled in a peak audience of 11.6m viewers during the team's loss to [...]
Bioengineers have created a “psychic robot” that understands human intention October 8, 2015 A robot which can understand why humans behave the way they do has been created by scientists at the University of Illinois. Dubbed the “psychic robot” by its creators, it uses a mathematical algorithm to “see” the intention behind even the most simple act, such as lifting your arm to reach out for a cup of tea. [...]
Europe and the US space agencies are trying to protect us from death by asteroids October 8, 2015 It's never the wrong time to remind yourself that millions of asteroids are rushing around us in space, posing a constant threat to human existence. Should one head down and collide with earth, it could lead to such devastating destruction that we would perish, just like the dinosaurs did some 65m years ago. But the [...]
London house prices: 15 Night Tube stations where 24-hour services will add a premium to the value of properties October 8, 2015 The arrival of London's Night Tube will bring with it a price premium of as much as 10 per cent for properties close to a handful of selected stations along the route. Homes close to Stratford, Willesden Green, Mile End and Canada Water are set to rise more than at any other station served by the [...]
Economists urge Bank of England to postpone interest rate rise October 8, 2015 City A.M.’s panel of economists urged the UK’s rate-setters to keep interest rates at their record low of 0.5 per cent this month, as the global economy slows and inflation remains well below its two per cent target. Professor Steve Keen, head of the school of economics, history and politics at London’s Kingston University, [...]
Hays share price drops as weak euro and Australian dollar hit profit October 8, 2015 A positive boost from the UK’s strong jobs market was not enough to offset the negative impact of a weak euro for recruiter Hays, it said this morning, pushing its share price down 6.7 per cent. The FTSE 250 professional recruiter reported profit growth of three per cent in the three months ending 30 September, compared with the same [...]