Archive for July, 2008

Housing crashes are always worse than expected. A mood in which people believe that property prices only ever go up is usually a reliable leading indicator of a crash. The psychological factor in housing booms (and busts) is too little noticed, presumably because it is difficult to pin any kind of numbers on a zeitgeist. [...]

Nearly one in two estate agency staff in the UK are thought to be at risk from data theft at work, because they are using an out of date web browser.
New research has revealed 45 per cent of all internet users don’t keep their browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. correctly up-to-date. And national [...]

To create the largest representative body for landlords in the UK, the National Landlords Association (NLA) and the National Federation of Residential Landlords (NFRL), who together represent nearly 20,000 landlords, have announced to merge.
It has been researched among the membership of both organisations that there is a need for a national unified voice for [...]