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02, 2011 November:

Moving Home: Where Do You Start?

All of us will experience the "joys" of moving home at one point or another. Relocating our homes and lives is something which requires a lot of forethought and planning, but where should you start?

04, 2011 August:

The Top 5 Common Problems Suffered By Expats

Anyone who has ever even considered moving overseas will know there are many issues to consider and to take into account. While there are a number of common issues associated with moving overseas the fact is that everybody is different and everybody has their own issues and problems to overcome.

29, 2010 September:

How far would you go in protest?

Placards, sit in demonstrations and picketing - they pale in comparison to the Dorset developer that quite literally built a brick wall to block the way in to his local bank...

28, 2010 September:

Royal chandeliers clean up costs a royal sum

Maintenance costs at the Royals' residences have set the country back millions, with almost £100,000 of taxpayer's money going into cleaning chandeliers...

13, 2010 April:

Have your say on housing

As the May election rapidly approaches SmartNewHomes.com, the UK‘s new homes website, has launched a comprehensive online poll to find out what homebuyers really think about the housebuilding industry...

12, 2010 April:

Ryanair implement wee fee

One of Europe's biggest discount airlines, Ryanair, will charge passengers to use on-board toilets...

01, 2010 April:

Worst airline? Oz makes its choice

Qantas and its no-frills subsidiary Jetstar rate among the worst airlines to fly internationally, according the latest Choice consumer survey, while Singapore Airlines soared into top spot...

15, 2010 February:

World's dirtiest hotels list causes backlash

Hardly a week goes by without TripAdvisor sending a list of some sort to its 15 million registered members. One of the latest lists is "the most romantic hotels in the world" but the one causing controversy is the "10 dirtiest hotels" list...

25, 2010 January:

Crashing out

Spending a night in an airport is every traveller's worst nightmare. But, according to Canadian Donna McSherry, not all airports are created equal when one is trying to get some shut-eye. And that's what her website, sleepinginairports.net, is all about...

08, 2009 December:

Kiwis reveal travel loves and loathes

Kiwi tourists enjoy seeing a landmark such as the Taj Mahal and realising they've 'made it'....

13, 2009 November:

French ‘named and shamed'

They are known for their Gallic froideur and now France's reputation as the most unwelcoming country in Europe has been confirmed - our friends across the Channel have been named and shamed as the most hostile natives on the continent in a poll of 3,000 British tourists...

21, 2009 October:

Scots branded ‘blunt'

An American travel guide which brands Scots as less than polite, Ben Nevis nothing more than a big hill and Loch Ness as boring, has been slammed by critics - the book, entitled Culture Smart! Scotland, promises readers a guide on how to avoid making gaffes when visiting Scotland, but has instead been accused of painting an inaccurate and unflattering picture of the country...

10, 2009 July:

World's tightest tourists

New Zealand tourists are among the fiscally tightest travellers in the world, a survey of 4500 hotels suggests...

18, 2009 June:

Weeding them out

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is cracking down on estate agencies and individual agents who have broken the rules - naming and shaming them in an online public register for the first time - allowing consumers to see first hand which ones to steer clear of...

16, 2009 June:

Ranting and raving

When you've had a bad experience, don't you just want to have a good old rant about it - a problem shared and all that - well, one American travel writer has launched a new website on which travellers and writers can share their horror stories and vote for the absolute worst the world of tourism has to offer...

22, 2009 May:

Suburbia fights back

We Brits are an aspiration nation - new research shows that, despite the English country cottage idyll - people living in the suburbs are far more likely to say that their current property is their dream home than those living in the country - but, overall, just 15 per cent of us live in our dream home...

21, 2009 May:

Great British ping time

The latest edition of travel bible Lonely Planet has painted a rather unsavory picture of Britain - splitting society into two distinct groups - banking fat cats and binge drinking whiners obsessed with the weather - so what exactly has happened to ‘Great' Britain?..

20, 2009 May:

Life not rosy for Barrack protestors

A group of campaigners opposed to the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks protested at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show today...

29, 2009 April:

Olympic media centre ‘weak'

The Government's architecture watchdog has criticised the ‘extremely weak' design of the media centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games...

14, 2009 April:

Facebook leads to eviction

Carolyn Lorimer, a woman who let out her flat to a young couple, evicted them after discovering photographs of wild parties at the property on the social networking website Facebook...

09, 2009 April:

Scottish renters ‘more content'

Scots renting property are happier with their landlords than those in England, according to research by the Scottish Government...

More protection needed in Thailand

Complaints about real estate companies are increasing in Thailand where delays in construction, misleading advertising and low quality workmanship are the most common source of conflict...

07, 2009 April:

Respect your elders

Veteran property entrepreneur Gerald Ronson, who is worth an estimated £250 million, says that greedy and inexperienced investors are partly to blame for the downturn in the real estate sector...

06, 2009 April:

Estate agents' charges 'too high'

New Zealand homeowners are paying too much to real estate agents who have a stranglehold on the industry, a property expert has claimed...

31, 2009 March:

Everybody needs good neighbours

Nightmare neighbours are costing British homeowners an estimated £71billion...

30, 2009 March:

Axe the Agent axed?

The founder of a property portal has called on the BBC to axe a controversial property programme...

26, 2009 March:

NZ ‘inhabited by hobbits'

Social networking and blogging has become the 21st Century way of expressing ourselves and anyone who's worth their salt is blogging, tweeting or facebooking about something -but now, a new blog on an online expat guide has caused major controversy by rubbishing New Zealand...

21, 2008 November:

Empty promises, empty rates

The Government is coming under increased pressure to abolish the empty property rates in the UK when it announces its pre-budget statement on Monday...