At a glittering function a number of years ago, to celebrate Glentree’s 35 years of successful trading, President Gorbachev was invited, and attended, as Guest of Honour.  At this function notable luminaries included Alexander and Eugene Lebedev (owners of the Evening Standard and Independent) as well as some of the richest Russians in London.  In fact, we needed an army of 30 security guards to ensure there were no incidents. Continue reading →

Dear George, well, you didn’t have much ‘wriggle room’ and delivered a budget that I suppose is the only thing you could have done given that the deficit is circa £108billion but this is set to fall to a balanced budget in 2018 that is good news indeed.

Employment is down again and growth at 2.7% is the fastest in the western world  – a real result. Continue reading →

We can all notice the emergence of agent free on-line sites and even the two major on-line portals seem to be courting this notion – much to the chagrin of estate agents up and down the country.

Since time immemorial there has been a niche market of commission free non-estate agent entities. Continue reading →