Generation Rent?
It’s not really a secret but in recent years more and more people, especially young people, have really struggled to get a foot on the property ladder. A recent report from The Intermediary Mortgage…
13 June 2014
Failure Of Insurance-Backed Deposit Schemes
In the firing line recently have been the “Insured” deposit protection schemes for tenants which have found themselves dragged into a story about an unscrupulous letting agent.
25 April 2014
Landlord Handed £12,000 Fine Over Lack Of Licence
A landlord living in London has been fined as he was renting out a property in Thanet in Essex without a selective licence. Thanet District Council designated certain parts of Clintonville and Margate
16 April 2014
Who Are The Winners And Losers In London’s Flat Market
Most of us would think that the property market in London has been going from strength to strength with prices increasing at unprecedented levels; however a report recently published…
09 April 2014
Budget Clampdown “buy-to-leave” Investors
George Osborne – Chancellor of the Exchequer recently clamped down on wealthy investors who don’t intend to reside or rent any expensive properties they buy. In the recent…
27 March 2014
Landlords Earn Over £1,000 More Per Month In London
Landlords in London are collecting a staggering £1,059 more each month than in January 2013 as rents increase by 31.43% to an average of £3,369 per month. Data collected from ‘Move with Us Greater…
13 March 2014
Ronnie Biggs & The Great Train Robbery Gang Hideout House Goes On Sale
You’d have to be off the rails to consider digging up beautiful gardens surrounding a £950,000 four-bedroom, seventeenth-century cottage near the quintessentially English village of Ockley but you may
06 March 2014
Interesting Insurance Claims
How do you persuade people to get insurance? Do you scare people into it? Interest them? Bribe them? Of course not. You draw amazing pictures on the floor and relate them to some interesting insurance
23 October 2013
Apollo Astronauts’ Fascinating Insurance Covers
Above: Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Insurance Cover, postmarked July 20th 1969 and signed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin It’s incredible to think that astronauts once needed to…
15 August 2013
Brilliantly Creative Insurance Adverts
As the world’s population is exposed to greater amounts of advertising, the task in hand for the agencies that produce such material becomes more difficult. To make an impact on people who have been…
15 August 2013
Bizarrely Niche Insurance Policies
Thanks to something called human nature, a small section of society will seek insurance cover for any given situation, regardless of the risk involved. Happily for the insurance providers of this…
15 August 2013
Bizarre Vintage Insurance Adverts
There are, and have been, thousands of insurance companies in the world, the vast majority of which advertise their services, so it’s no surprise that at least a few of these many, many marketing…
05 August 2013
