The Property Sales People

This year's (2012) pantomime in Haddenham near Ely is Robin Hood. It's Panto Time in Haddenham Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is! HAmDramS are resting over the Winter, before putting on a new production in the Spring. In the meantime, the village is in panto mode once more. This year the Arkenstall Centre presents Robin Hood written and directed by HAmDramS member Robert Bush Featuring a familiar cast of HAmDramS regulars and a cast of fantastic children, this is a show you won't want to miss! Wednesday 11th - Saturday 14th January 2012 Evening Performances start at 7.30pm - - Saturday Matinee Performance at 2.30pm Tickets go on sale on Saturday 3rd December at the Arkenstall Centre in Haddenham A fterwards, from Haddenham Galleries - 01353 749188 Block bookings for 10 or more (except Sat eve) telephone 01353 740680 Licensed bar and charity raffle in aid of the A...

This week we heard about someone who had received their 3 rd letter from the Cheltenham & Gloucester (subsidiary of that public/tax payer bailed out phenomenon known as Lloyds TSB) asking them how they proposed to pay off the balance of their mortgage in 5 years time when it reached the end of it's term. They had dismissed the first letter as an error and replied to the second letter giving as much detail as possible. I add here that the outstanding loan is interest-only so there is no capital being repaid. They have never missed a repayment – even though their business has been through and is possibly still going through the worst period in it's 25 year existence. They recently virtually paid off one mortgage account with a £25,000 cash payment and continue to overpay the balance of their loan. Not good enough for the C&G – they want details of exactly how the balance will be cleared in 5 years time! With documentary proof of the value of endowment policies that ...

This Sunday I was scanning the Gadgets supplement in the Sunday Times on my iPAD and came across this latest photographic offering from Microsoft. A free download of Photosynth to your iPhone and away you go creating panoramas and 'Synths'. The product reminds me of something we dabbled with in the early '90's called iPIX. This involved a fish eye lens attached to a digital camera and you took 2 hemispherical photos of a room (imagine standing at the centre of a tennis ball). The 2 photos were then stitched together using some software which you could then upload to the web. I eventually grasped how to add it to a web page but it wasn't easy - or quick. This came to an end when the original iPIX company went bust. The simplicity of Photosynth and the ability to upload to your Facebook page as well as it being hosted on www.photosynth.net means this could be a winner - certainly when compared with iPIX! I'm going to have a go and report back on my next blog post

We have just made a major investment in reaching out to homebuyers and sellers by launching our 'intelligent' newsletter which recipients can tailor to their own interests by choosing the subject areas that they want to read about. The company we have partnered with to produce this is BriefYourMarket who have a highly effective relationship with our estate agency software provider, ExpertAgent, who enabled  data from the last 5 years to be available. Obviously the initial 'test' send out whittled numbers down from over 5,000+ e-mail addresses to more manageable numbers to actually receive the newsletter. The last thing we want to do is upset people by sending them e-mails that could be construed as 'spam' and from hereon only people who subscribe or remain subscribed will receive it. I'm interested to learn if anyone has a particular subject that they would like one of our contributing writers to talk about. Send your requests to editor@clarkhomes.co.uk an...

I just had to display this for everyone to see! Yvonne has been very stressed during this transaction so conveyancing solicitors will need to bear with her... Sent: 16 June 2011 18:15 To: Barbara Harding Subject: re our exchange Thank you to you and David for the little extra support you gave me latterly in the process it was much appreciated.  We were afflicted with just about very problem you can get in a conveyance..except someone dropping down dead !  I dont know that everybody knows everything which gummed up the works along the way but certainly I now have a very clear idea of what is good and bad in legal and estate business.  YOU and Barbara Brooker were great and even a Hertford estate agent I met on the way called Senel Ibrahim (of Lanes) rang me up at intervals to ask how we were getting on..we were hoping to buy in Hertford initially but the properties went up too much in price. In theory every property should have its own  one to one man...

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In a report in today’s Times it was reported that 1000’s of acres of public sector land that is deemed surplus near hospitals, schools and military bases must be identified by the autumn of this year to enable a potential sell-off. Part of the proposal is a ‘Build Now, Buy Later’ plan whereby developers can pay for land once homes are completed. It is not clear in the article whether this means physical build completion or legal sales completion. The only way it would help developer/builders with a cash-flow problem is if it were the legal sales completion where money changes hands from buyer to seller. Let’s just look at the ‘headers’ again: ·          Housing Shortage ·          Surplus Land ·          Developers/Builders with cash flow problems. There is a housing shortage that is true. It was talked about before the more recent implosion of the financial system...