CONTENTS
February 2010
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home to a nice
cosy ski chalet. 8 NEWSbeat
New year brings new exciting news - we have all the latest in sales,
lettings, auctions and commercial property.
14 Google - friend or foe? COVER FEATURE
Searching for a home could all change when Google launches its
property mapping facility, but who will be the winners and losers?
18 Subscriber Profile
Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Desirable, busy and profitable says Kate Boyes,
a young estate and letting agent and a PROPERTYdrum subscriber.
20 House prices: the long range forecast
Savills believe prices are going up, up up; will anyone be able to buy a
60
home? Only if we return to the savings culture...
21 The HIPs column
Mike Ockenden is a brave man, he has a challenge for Grant Shapps
New Year, new job MP (who may be the next Housing Minister and wants to scrap HIPs) .
– check out our new
recruitment section. 22 PULSE: Prime Central London
It’s gorgeous, elegant and classy, we’d all like to live there – but how’s
business? We have a good mooch around the stuccoed mansions, the
cute mews and the bijou pads .
31 New property show takes off
The Property Professional Show is set to take the UK by storm. It’s
bigger, better, bolder than anything you have visited before and it’s
aimed fairly and squarely at you! May 17and 18, ICC, Birmingham.
32 The ‘get out’ clause in your business
The current geographic and financial climate is enough to make us
want to retire. One day you might manage it – so read this!
35 The Property Ombudsman
Chris Hamer says that talking to clients can stop complaints, its
communication, communication, communication.
22
RESIDENTIALsales
Prime Central
London – everyone
wants to live here! 36 Whoosh! Ski chalets and slopes
There’s been snow all over the place - are property prices all over the
place as well? Andrea Kirkby skis around the world to find out.
40 Peter and the Dragon
A victory for the borrower in an interesting case of unfair mortgage
lending. PROPERTYdrum lawyers report.
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