Slower Broadband Speed could hinder house prices ...
For a while now, we have been talking about how the business world is changing at the fastest pace in history, and, that a growing trend will see more and more people working from home. Large companies will re-structure with fewer employees and more contract workers and freelancers who are brought in on a project-by-project basis.  The recession is also creating unemployment, and we will see the launch of many new home-based businesses over the next few years as a result of that. Speaking as home workers ourselves, we conduct and manage virtually all our business via the web,

Top 10 reasons to by houses rather than flats ... every time ....
Picture:  one of our four bedroom houses in Basingstoke, Hants.  From our experience of purchasing both houses and flats over the past five and a half years, we have come to the conclusion that we will not buy another flat outside of London again - London being its own unique micro-market where flats can work well.  We thought we would share with you our reasons for this: 1. Houses are freehold, flats are generally leasehold.

The journey so far - property and the web ...
Today we have had the honour of being featured in "The Community Challenge" blog/club on ecademy. Penny Power asked us to write about our business journey over the last 6 years and how we have come to embrace "social media" and the web, illustrating how we use it with our businesses.We thought we would share it with you here.So what are we all about, now there hangs a question!Well there's two of us: Nick Tadd and Vanessa Warwick ... ahem, G'day.We met late in life so I suppose it's only right that we have a paragraph each to explain the story before we met - bring you "up to speed" so to spea

U.K. hotspots for theft and burglary - is your property safe and secure ...?
When doing due diligence on a property, one of the things we always check is the level of crime in the area. Crime has a serious impact on house prices and tenant demand, so it's important to understand what goes on in an area you are considering buying in. A female tenant is not going to rent your property if she feels afraid to walk home alone at night. Areas with high levels of drug and alcohol-related crime are not going to attract good quality tenants, and house prices may be negatively impacted.This article suggests that, because of the economic woes of this country, crime is on the increase, and will become increasingly an issue in society.This r

Marketing holiday lets using social media ....
I have just created a twitter identity for one of our holiday lets, SeaBreeze at Camber Sands, E. Sussex. You can view/follow at SeaBreezeCamberWith holiday lets you can appeal to a global audience, which is why the web, being unrestricted by geography, is such an effective market place for these types of lettings.