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	<title>Properties for London - Estate Agents - Services Offices - Office Space - Mortgages Remortgages - Sale Let - Houses Apartments Flats Commercial - Marylebone, Mayfair &#38; West End</title>
	<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk</link>
	<description>Everything and Anything About the London Property Market in Mayfair, Marylebone, Fitzrovia and the West End- Serviced Offices-Office Space</description>
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		<title>Stamp Duty Dropped back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stamp duty threshold dropped back to £125,000 on 1 January, prompting a rush on mortgage approvals and completed home sales in the final months of 2009.
The government concession, which had temporarily pushed the threshold up to £175,000 for just over a year, had been aimed at halting the rapid slump in the property market.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2010/02/18/stamp-duty-dropped-back/</link>
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		<title>Share Ownership Schemes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Government backed scheme, does it really benefit the people who wants to get on the property ladder?
Well I believe that some housing associations are milking it on the rent and the service charge that tenants and leaseholders have to pay.The whole point of this scheme is to have a low rent and a mortgage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2010/02/09/share-ownership-schemes/</link>
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		<title>Foxtons with the banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This&#8217;ll bring tears to your eyes: unloved estate agent Foxtons has been taken over by its lenders.
Another indignity for BC Partners, the private equity whizz-kids who took the inspired decision to buy estate agency Foxtons right at the top of the property market: they’ve been forced to cede control of the estate agency to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2010/01/11/foxtons-with-the-banks/</link>
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		<title>Mortgage Lenders increase charges by more than £1,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homeowners in the UK face rising mortgage rates costing up to £1,400 extra a year despite the Bank of England’s base rate freeze.
Many mortgage lenders have raised their standard variable rate since the base rate was set at 0.5 per cent last March. 
Eight building societies have raised their standard variable rate during the freeze.
Mansfield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2010/01/08/mortgage-lenders-increase-charges-by-more-than-1000/</link>
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		<title>Lawrence Ward and Company</title>
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Our principal operation is estate agency services and property asset management for residential property within The City of London and adjacent areas.
We have brought together an unrivalled knowledge and understanding of this, one of the world&#8217;s great financial service areas, with a wealth of personal and professional experience which allows us to offer an efficient, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2010/01/06/lawrence-war/</link>
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		<title>2010: Year of the big property freeze?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get the bad news over first: the build-up to 2010 – rising values and estate agents claiming five buyers for every seller – may prove far better than the year itself. 
If you think tales of woe will add to your post-Christmas indigestion, look away now. For almost every analyst, lender and agent warns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2009/12/28/2010-year-of-the-big-property-freeze/</link>
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		<title>Dubai &amp; London Property Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing wrong with global economic recovery getting under way so soon, as well that of various property markets around the world, is that too few people have learned from it. Too many people seem way to eager to go back into the way things were before.
Yesterday the big London estate agency&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2009/12/13/dubai-london-property-market/</link>
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		<title>London Bankers Property Relapse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Estate agents are predicting a wave of instructions to sell homes in London from bankers looking to leave the UK in the wake of the new bonus &#8220;super-tax&#8221;.
Ed Mead, director of the estate agency Douglas &#038; Gordon, said that the single biggest topic of discussion among his finance-based clients was when they can get out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2009/12/13/london-bankers-property-relapse/</link>
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		<title>London Offices</title>
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LondonOffices.com is a trusted source for those seeking serviced office space in London. They list over 2,000 locations of available workspace in the capital, that can be rented on flexible terms. They have placed hundreds of companies in areas such as the West End, Holborn, City and Docklands, from start-ups to large corporations.
Unlike some other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2009/12/04/london-offices/</link>
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		<title>Highest Level of Mortgages</title>
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The number of mortgages approved for house purchase rose to its highest level for nearly two years during October as buyers continued to return to the market, figures showed today.
Around 42,238 loans were approved for people buying a property during the month, nearly double the number seen in October last year and the highest level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://propertiesforlondon.co.uk/2009/11/26/highest-level-of-mortgages/</link>
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