The UK is a very old country. And we’ve been buying and selling property since well beforeThe BeatlesreleasedSgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The long, long-term: house price history before Hitler Academics have made various stabs at estimating the returns from property over more than ...
Buying a piece of land without planning permission was a massive gamble. Buying a piece of land with planning permission was costly and meant he would have little money left for the build. So for many years he lived on a canal boat. This kept his costs down and meant he could stay in...
The right to build legislation came about in the UK in 2016, which made it compulsory for local authorities to keep a register of people interested in buying plots of land, and ensure that they had that same number of plots available to purchase within three years. We're now at that poin...
The company names imply that it is the “MREF III” Fund by Moorfield that is buying Craighouse, which is the same fund that owns Quartermile. We have talked about Quartermile (the development of the old Royal Edinburgh Hospital) several times before as the A-Listed Surgical Block at Quar...
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My life is controlled by one spreadsheet! Schedules, diaries, time-lines and accounting, if I didn’t have it then I wouldn’t be able to do these things! I love what I do; it’s a hobby that became a job so looking at spreadsheets all day is certainly no chore!
I try to counter my mental accounting with a giant spreadsheet. This consists of a master sheet that details my bestcurrentestimate of my net worth from all sources. Sub-sheets cover things like my share portfolio, my cash accounts, my unlisted investments, my flat, my mortgage, and other ...
It’s hard to know how much of the energy I produced has been used but I can calculate a maximum and minimum. As a minimum this is zero and the maximum is that all of the energy I produced was used which means I would have saved buying in 817.6 KWh of electricity saving another ...
I also complain about buying land for a premium price off them to have all the stress taken away. More clear proof that they promised me power. I also complain that I cannot up sticks and walk away as I heard others had done or were planning to, as a direct result of them also ...
Consider what your husband really does do to help around the house. Many times, when the going gets tough, you might only see what needs to be done, and what your husband has done to help goes unnoticed. Take a moment to reflect on what he did that week to help you and take it ...