Winning the lottery

May 29th, 2010

What would you do if you won the lottery?  I have been thinking about this recently, ever since I heard about the UK euro millions winner the received £56m. Just imagine what you could do with that, for one thing I don’t think my work would ever see me again once I have the money [...]

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The big house swap

April 18th, 2010

With the property market slowly recovering my wife’s family are doing their part to help it get going again.  My brother in law has just moved into his house (the move happened this weekend) and my parents in law are part way though the process of buying a new house.
After the disaster that happened with [...]

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Brother in law moving in

April 15th, 2010

I have written before about my brother in law buying a house right next to mine, well that whole process started in November and it has only just completed.  I thought buying my house was complicated with a 3 week delay, but taking over 5 months is just ridiculous.  He has only now realised how [...]

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Brother in laws house

January 10th, 2010

It seems to me that solicitors never seem to ever get things right when it comes to buying property. When I brought my house they messed up the papers so that we were delayed by 2 weeks. Now my brother is buying a house and he was supposed to have moved in by [...]

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Looking for a new house

October 18th, 2009

My brother has found another house that he likes.  He has looked all over, but the houses he has looked at have been in not the nicest areas.  Now the house he likes is just around the corner from me.  If he gets it, it will be a 2 minute walk from our house to [...]

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The property market

July 14th, 2009

There have been lots of reports lately about the housing market that have made the whole market look very confusing.  One mortgage lender would say that there are more mortgages being sold while others say that there is a decrease in mortgages.  There are still signs of a recovery in the property market with the [...]

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