I’ve always done that too, move out a few days early and get professional cleaners and decorators in. No excuses for the landlord to keep a penny of the deposit! (View Post)

Downsizing (of a main home, not a BTL) needs to be massively incentivised by the tax system. Stamp duty especially makes the market much stickier than it needs to be, but the rates are now so high th… (View Post)

I really hope this turns out to be true. Russia doesn’t just have a black-market petrol problem, it also has a counterfeit petrol problem - stuff that looks like petrol, maybe even smells a bit like … (View Post)

There’s been a fair amount of bombing on both sides of the conflict in the last 48 hours. The difference being that one side appears to be pretty accurate with their ordnance, heading downrange towar… (View Post)

Every solution involves a combination of building millions more houses or reducing the number of households substantially. We all know that rent controls don’t work for a whole number of reasons, alt… (View Post)