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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Focus On Property in Canterbury, Kent]]></title>
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Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:26 BST
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<![CDATA[Click 
here to see how the property market in Canterbury is doing]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Property makeover: Turning a relic into a gem]]></title>
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Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:17 BST
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<title><![CDATA[Brief Encounter: change of use from shop to cottage]]></title>
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Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:08 BST
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<![CDATA[Q: Our property was built as two cottages. However, in the 1970s, one of the 
cottages was converted into a shop. The title deeds require any change of 
use to be with the &#8220;prior written consent&#8221; of the owners of the property 
next door. We want to turn the shop back into living space. There is a 
concern that the neighbours might not (for whatever reason) grant 
permission. What is the extent of the obligation mentioned in the documents?]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Top tips from architects on how to build or improve your home]]></title>
<pubDate>
Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:01 BST
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<![CDATA[Ever wanted to build your own house from scratch or completely redesign the 
one you've already got? Maybe you just want to make your home greener or 
build a kitchen extension? How can you get professional advice without 
hiring an expensive architect or designer?]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[House prices rising, amid fewer sales]]></title>
<pubDate>
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[House prices are continuing to rise across Scotland despite an overall drop in 
sales, according to official records.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Thatchers left to clutch at straws after traditional wheat crops fail]]></title>
<pubDate>
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:01:59 BST
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<![CDATA[A disastrous harvest of long&#45;stemmed wheat straw for thatching has forced 
English Heritage to relax its guidelines on the use of traditional materials.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Through the keyhole of Sir David Frost's Victorian pile in Chelsea]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 15:55:19 BST
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<![CDATA[Let&#8217;s begin as they would on Through the Keyhole. Here is an ordinary room, a 
study, in a central London penthouse. What clues can we gather about the 
owner?]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Time and Place: Kate Mosse on growing up in West Sussex]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:53 BST
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<![CDATA[In 1963, when I was 15 months old, my father, a solicitor, was offered a job 
with a firm of lawyers in Chichester, West Sussex. We moved from Cheam, on 
the outskirts of London, to a house in Fishbourne, a small village west of 
Chichester, famous for its Roman palace. In those days, it had a post 
office, three pubs, a shop and a church. Divided by the main road, it was 
not a Miss Marple English village with dusty, sleepy lanes and rattling 
carts. Our quiet, pretty cul&#45;de&#45;sac was one of several developments that had 
sprung up in the 1950s to provide family houses and bungalows for retired 
teachers and nurses, solicitors and employees of the bigger firms in 
neighbouring Hampshire. There were plots of different sizes and shapes, and 
no front fences. It was peaceful, modest and suburban. No fuss.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Rum hangs out the welcome banner]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:49 BST
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<![CDATA[A feeling of deep loneliness engulfs you when you step off the ferry onto Rum&amp;#39;s rocky shore&amp;#46; This is a wilderness&amp;#44; an island in the Inner Hebrides that became defined by its sense of mystery&amp;#46; It is a place where the environment has been left to spread unbound&amp;#44; where the wind carries the rustle of leaves and bird cries&amp;#44; and voices are lost whispers&amp;#46; A sense of barren seclusion seeps from the soil&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Estate agents become scapegoats for the property market slowdown]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:46 BST
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<![CDATA[Rip&#45;off thieves. Parasites on a gravy train. Worms. Leeches. Con artists. 
Two&#45;faced crooks. . . all descriptions of the humble estate agent offered 
last week in the public domain. Such venom &#8212; and all this at a time when we 
should really be feeling sorry for them.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Time and Place: Blythe Duff]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:30 BST
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<![CDATA[My very first flat was, basically, a room and kitchen, in the Cessnock 
district of Glasgow. It was in a tenement and if you were to look at the 
building from above it would be a bit like the Flatiron building in New 
York, in that it was triangular, one side being on Paisley Road West.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[The secret agent: estate agency training courses]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[With a heavy heart, I pull into the car park of another bland hotel just off a 
motorway junction. As I hobble into the spartan reception area, back aching 
from the drive, I&#8217;m greeted by a Polish accent from behind the desk.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Country life: how to blend in with the locals]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[In the days known as &#8220;yore&#8221; it was very simple. If you wanted a posh&#45;ish house 
in the country &#8212; what used to be called a gentleman&#8217;s residence &#8212; nothing 
less than a graciously proportioned Georgian pile would do.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Gulf magnates look to develop Dubai&#45;on&#45;Thames]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[Gulf magnates who have worked on the artificial &#8220;palm&#8221; islands of Dubai have 
turned their attention to the greyer waters of the Thames estuary with a 
proposal to reclaim two three&#45;mile stretches of land between Kent and Essex 
and turn them into resorts.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[The English village fights back]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:01:51 BST
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<![CDATA[We are almost tragic. The vast majority of the English, nearly 80 per cent, 
live in the cities and towns, while a similar number of us say we would like 
to live in the countryside. We have a notion of the English village as an 
idyll of order and tranquility while making the places so expensive that 
they drive out the lifeblood of their own youth.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Club tropicana]]></title>
<pubDate>
Sat, 10 May 2008 11:07:42 BST
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<![CDATA[Like many fashion designers, Carlos Miele enjoys several artistic outlets 
beyond the sartorial. When not dressing the likes of Alicia Keys, Christina 
Aguilera, Sandra Bullock and Eva Mendes for the red carpet, he finds time to 
create contemporary dance, music and video installations for such 
prestigious venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 
Washington and collaborate with photographers such as Michael Roberts, the 
legend&#45;ary fashion and style director of Vanity Fair. &#8220;I see no distinction 
between designing a garment that follows the lines of the body and working 
with a choreographer who tailors movement to music or a gardener or 
architect who creates organic shapes to accentuate the landscape,&#8221; says 
Miele.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Analysis: frustration for everyone &#45; except investors]]></title>
<pubDate>
Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:22 BST
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<![CDATA[The repossession statistics released by the Ministry of Justice make alarming 
reading &#45; until, that is, you consider the nature of these numbers.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Flat&#45;hunter: Life is tough for would&#45;be London renters]]></title>
<pubDate>
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:53 BST
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<![CDATA[It's not just amateur landlords who are suffering the current housing market 
conditions &#45; tenants are having a pretty tough time too, as I have 
discovered. My hopes of finding a sweet little loft conversion for &#163;200 a 
week in East London, outlined in Bricks and Mortar last month, have so far 
come to naught. Like thousands of homeseekers across the capital, I have 
dashed to viewings after work only to be wholly disappointed at the poor 
quality of flats on offer and the ubiquity of laminate flooring. Having 
whinged about the near&#45;extinction of old&#45;fashioned small&#45;time landlords in 
the East End, I jumped at the chance to view a privately owned one&#45;bedroom 
flat advertised in Loot.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[The credit crunch has hit buy&#45;to&#45;let investors, but only up to a point]]></title>
<pubDate>
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:39 BST
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<![CDATA[The credit crunch has curtailed the activities of even the most passionate 
buy&#45;to&#45;let investors. This statement &#45; like other summaries of the current 
state of the housing market &#45; is true, but only up to a point. A few 
powerful individuals in the &#163;120 billion buy&#45;to&#45;let industry, with a stash 
of spare cash and no need to borrow, have never been busier. One man's no&#45;go 
zone is another's adventure playground.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Brief encounter: Can my tenants stop me modernising?]]></title>
<pubDate>
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:24 BST
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<![CDATA[Q&amp;#58; We own a property occupied by two regulated tenants&amp;#44; who share a bathroom&amp;#46; We would like to extend a derelict external lavatory into a modern bathroom so that each property is self&#45;contained&amp;#44; but the tenants have refused our offer&amp;#46; Can the tenants &amp;#40;who regularly complain to the rent officer that their property is unmodernised&amp;#41; prevent us from providing them with a modern bathroom&amp;#63;]]>	
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