Archive for the 'property' Category
Northern soul: Bilbao, Pamplona and Gijon offer the highest quality of life in Spain
July 26th, 2007Southern Spain may get all the sun, but a recent survey of quality of life in Spanish cities found the top three are in the north. It put Bilbao, Pamplona and Gijon above Seville, Barcelona and Madrid on the basis that residents there are more satisfied with their quality of life than anywhere else. Personal […]
Buy To Let: Landlords are now making tenants play the lottery of sealed bids
July 26th, 2007Central London landlords are boosting rents by as much as 20 per cent by requiring applicants to make sealed bids for tenancies.
Competition for rented accommodation has intensified in the past few months as many buy-to-let investors have sold out to owner-occupiers, and a large number of overseas executives have arrived to work in the […]
Cool designs: We check out the latest kitchen kit
July 25th, 2007We all know the rule of thrifty kitchen makeovers: spend the money where you can see the result. But, while many of us save on the cupboards to splash out on the worktop, we don’t always make the most of the kit that actually get the work done. Labour-saving devices have been around since the […]