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The number of real estate transactions has sharply decreased in the Great Britain

12 June 2008

As it has become known for last 3 months the usual agency of the real estate managed to find the buyer on the average on 17 houses, exposed on sale. Thus, purchasing activity in the market of habitation was reduced almost three times in comparison with the similar period of the last year.
Moreover, practice of [...]

Prince Charles will reconstruct London Chinatown

6 May 2008

British throne successor has tough up the project, which can seriously change shape of one of the most picturesque areas of London.
In result of this project realization well-known Chinatown should become “more-British”, having combined the Chinese roots of inhabitants of area with traditional local architecture.
According to the project wooden arches and stone dragons beside will [...]

Russian oligarchs deprive with the Hollywood stars of elite habitation

28 April 2008

Real shout SOS! has sounded from lips of the star inhabitant of London - well-known Hollywood director Guy Ritchie, according to whom, Russian businessmen have deprived with British of opportunity to have worthy habitation.
If you wish to buy a small house, for example, within the limits of London forget that you we shall get it [...]

British builders are accused of price arrangement

19 April 2008

About hundred civil engineering firms in the Great Britain are accused of swindle at reception of contracts on construction both in private and state sectors. These infringements have managed to tax bearers in millions pounds sterling.
Charges have been put forward after lead by antimonopoly body of the Great Britain (Office of Fair Trading, OFT) investigations [...]

Great Britain: real estate becomes cheaper with record rates

10 April 2008

Reduction in rates of real estate prices in the Great Britain has reached record parameters for last 16 years. Such information has been given in the message of the largest British hypothec company Halifax.
British real estate market “is in fever”, caused by instability of the world financial and credit market.
The prices for houses and apartments [...]

Great Britain: number of real estate buyers promptly decreases

28 March 2008

Global credit crisis has led to that the number of real estate buyers in Britain has sharply decreased.
According to National real estate agents association (NAEA), the quantity of buyers in their lists in February has decreased on 12 %, to the mark in 243 buyers per one agent, in comparison with 276 in January. It [...]

Newspaper House will be constructed in London

3 March 2008

Karen Janody and her colleagues from company Creative City, who can’t stand a lot of the use newspapers in streets of London, have decided to construct house of them. Thus they are going to show the degree of waste.
As it has become known, the skeleton of Newspaper House in Gillett Square Hackney in the East [...]

Growth of hypothec crediting in Britain was slowed down

21 January 2008

The number of the approved applications for the mortgage in Britain has increased in November, 2007 in monthly calculation a little, however, it remains close to the record minimum marked in October, and growth of hypothec crediting was slowed down. Such information has been given by British Bankers Association (BBA).
Such data became one more attribute [...]

The number of buyers of the real estate in England has reached record-breaking low level

13 January 2008

The number of primary buyers of the real estate in England has reached to record-breaking low level for last three decades: such low parameters were not observed since 1980. And in comparison with 2002 sales volumes in the market have decreased on 44 %.
As real estate experts prove now it is the first time that [...]

English authorities will sell savings and loan association Northern Rock

6 December 2007

The Ministry of Finance of the Great Britain is going to sell bank Northern Rock to the private company.
Within several weeks the Ministry negotiated for sale of Northern Rock, which was the fifth savings and loan association on size before crash in September, but its representative has told, that the government is ready to any [...]