Happy Christmas!




Strange title I know. And, lets face it, it happens to all of us. You have had a long hard day at work, you get home, get dinner on, run a yourself a bath, get the kids to bed, read them a story, kiss them goodnight, and then go back down stairs for a nice…
I’m sorry about lowering the tone of my newsletters. I really, really try to make them informative and worth your while. But then someone presents me with information like this, and all my good intentions vanish in a puff of smoke. You may have seen my recent newsletter about painting with peanut butter. The client who asked us…
Here in the South we seem to be moving towards Spring, despite the pictures I saw of cars in Yorkshire stranded in the snow. It’s a good time of year to take stock of a home and look at what jobs will need to be done, including decorating jobs of course. External paintwork What should you look for…
For once I’ll be serious. At least for a bit. If you own property in London you probably keep a close watch on property price trends. If not you must have nerves of steel. Latest figures from the ONS suggest a 4.4pc fall in London house prices over the last year (compared to a rise…
he UK property market is breaking records since the end of lockdown. ‘Sales agreed’ across the country from mid-July to mid-August add up to more than £37 billion. In London, instead of the usual summer slowdown. we’ve had the highest number of homes being put up for sale since March 2008. Rightmove say they are seeing a…
I kept this one a bit quiet, in case some of my more timid customers might get overwhelmed by my new-found celebrity. But as the TV images focused on my smiling face rounding the final curve in the 4 x 100 litres, I knew the cat was out of the bag. Imagine – your local…