Island made from recycled materials
With the property market the way it is at the moment, some people are looking for alternative way of finding somewhere to live, this may mean going abroad or even finding some way that they could utilise different materials.
Which is exactly what one man has done just off the coast of Mexico he built an [...]
Man lived in underground home
The human mole man has been evicted from his underground home in Florida, USA, when the police happened to stumble upon the secret entrance.
Bruce Tracy a homeless building contractor took just two months to dig out the rooms of the 200 square feet home, where inside there was a bedroom, kitchen, living area, leak proofed [...]
The first hydrogen powered house
Building eco friendly homes is going to be the next big thing, and in the States a civil engineer has actually built a home that runs completely off its own home made energy.
The house has been fitted out with solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells, storage tanks and an electrolyser. This means that the house [...]
Legal Loophole for HIP
With the Home Information Pack (HIP) being a legal requirement for all properties now, there is talk that this will put sellers off especially those in the one and two bedroom property market, should this happen it could have some serious affects on the whole property market, simply because there will not be many home [...]
November 22, 2007New property portal
The end could be nigh for the standard estate agent website, this is because a certain Rupert Murdoch or rather his company News International, will launching a new type of property search site which has been named Globrix.com and it is going to change the way people search for property.
The new concept in property search [...]
The in’s and out’s of renting
With first time buyers struggling to find a suitable place to buy, renting is becoming a popular choice for those who want to set up a home, but what the costs related to this way of finding a home?
Like with every industry the price you see is not always the price that you pay, sure [...]
Eco Friendly building materials
As the world cries out for more eco friendly building materials there is an effort from a wide range of people, businesses and organisations to come up with viable solutions that on the one hand provides the consumer with a product that is either recycled or reused and on the other hand a product that [...]
November 15, 2007The worst time to buy property
It’s a difficult call when to invest your hard earned cash into a property. This is especially difficult for the first time buyer, who traditionally is on a lower wage as they are also starting off in their careers so the pressure is doubled.
So with the housing market slowing down, prices are naturally falling so [...]
GPS causes £1.5 million damages to village
You have to feel sorry for some places on the map in the UK, they have to suffer flooding and storm damage etc, but nothing could prepare the small villages of Llandovery and Llangadog in Wales for what they had coming their way, these small and pretty places have narrow winding streets that date back [...]
November 12, 2007Opportunities for profits in rural properties
It seems that there are still some great opportunities around for making a decent profit from a property investment and it is those Scots that have got the jump on everyone else this time, for they are slipping out into the rural areas and buying up houses.
This is a practice known as “Mouse holding” where [...]
Best places in Europe to buy
As Europe expands the possibilities for getting a great bargain is getting larger, especially with some of the eastern European countries coming board.
But the best places is not necessarily the cheapest places, this list has taken into consideration the Economic Growth, Property Price Rises, and what sort of Rental Income a buyer could expect, the [...]
Governor warns of bad things ahead
The Governor of the Bank of England is warning of the impending doom that may head towards our shores. Meaning that there are still many problems in the US mortgage market that have not yet surfaced and if or when they do, then this could spell trouble for many of the UK big name banks.
The [...]
House prices also go up
In these days of doom and gloom regarding the housing market, it’s nice to find something that can give the average homeowner a little bit of hope and optimism. According to the Halifax who has recently published a report on the house prices, there is in fact a top ten of cities in the UK [...]
November 2, 2007Glass House Bricks
It may be a surprising thing to hear, but eco friendly house building was around in the 1960’s, what is more surprising is who was involved, Alfred Heineken the man who runs the brewery of the same name.
While on a visit to the Caribbean he was appalled at the amount of beer bottles that were [...]
Boy started California fires
The recent fires in California where terrible there is no doubt about this, causing havoc to over 500,000 people who had to leave their homes, 2,300 buildings were destroyed and 12 people died and still the fires rage, not as bad as before but never the less the danger is there.
Therefore it was a [...]