Just returned from the 7th Griffins Annual Dubai Conference. Some amazing pictures of top notch networking resulting in yet more UK professionals schooled in our work in Dubai. Now to start planning the 8th!
@paullewismoney The market price is driven solely by those transactions that occur, so if the price drops the volume of sales drops quickly as only those who have to sell will put their houses on the market, thus pushing the prices down further. The 'rich' second home owners just sit it out.
Out Now! The Blooding Of Jimmy Harper:
‘The tale of Jimmy Harper, born in London, an east ender, raised in Plaistow. His path to manhood is laid out before him by birthright, but Jimmy is haunted by a feeling that he doesn’t really fit the mould.’ https://t.co/4dlC5gzbvg
Autumn statement: Leak that there could be an IHT cut, now income tax. I’m predicting that, as with the Cameron appointment, it’s all about surprise, so I think a 2.5% drop in VAT is on the cards. It’s populist, eye catching and a problem in 12 months for Labour. #rishislaststand
The craziest thing about Suella Braverman and other right wing Tories is that they leap into Thatcher circa 1987 mode without recognising the decades of compromise she deployed to get herself into that position. She was able to say that she’d tried her opponents’ methods first.
NEWS: St.Pancras station unveiled its Christmas tree today! We know, but it is a beauty. It's covered in books and there are cubby holes around the bottom where you can sit and read.
I share an ancestor with Princess Diana and President George W Bush. The same ancestor was born in 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. I feel that all this information will be valuable on my next trip to the USA, but I don't know how.