A thoroughly British Blog.

It’s been a long time since I’ve talked technical here on Activerain, but some of us Rainers are actually more focused on real estate technology rather than house viewings on a day to day basis. If you're one of those people you may find the following post interesting. Written by my colleague Ric...

Sounds like the name of the latest summer blockbuster, I envisage Zoomf being some sort of crazy alien that Sigourney Weaver spends 90 minutes trying to decapitate. But it’s not a movie, it’s just me announcing the latest redesign here at Zoomf towers. For those of you who just know me as 'that g...

Today is a big day in the United Kingdom. Today is the day the Chancellor of the Exchequer reveals the Budget. Part of me feels like the only reason I started studying Economics was because one day I wanted to be the girl who held up that dashing red briefcase. Now, not so much. Who wants a handb...

It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the famous ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ phrase, but it seems that we are being a little bit prejudiced when it comes to house-hunting. It can be very distracting to be viewing a house with horrifically ugly furniture, and some people will need the...

If you’ve always fancied a fairground in your back garden then you’re in for a treat, if you don’t mind a property that comes with baggage that is. Most people would like the idea of living in the former home of an international celebrity, but when said celebrity is creepy no nose Michael Jackson...

No longer does your complaining have to be confined by your four walls, you can now make your views truly public thanks to rottenneighbor.com. It's an American site but it's appeal is global and everyone is welcome to report naughty behaviour from any corner of the world. I've only just discovere...

Writing from the UK...giving an insight into our market :-DThe title is not the name of the latest prime time reality TV show, it is in fact the sad reality that the UK is facing as more and more of the talented workforce up and leave.The UK has won the disappointing title of having lost the high...

Who remembers the year 2000? We approached it with such trepidation, terrified every computer in the country would become infested by the ‘millennium bug’. Well, back then there were 322 streets in the UK where the average property fetched in excess of a million pounds. Today, you would expect th...

UK property ‘news' of late has seemed, to me at least, to be a little lacklustre on the ‘news' front. Most stories being a confirmation of house prices going down from another lender, survey or what have you. But there have been some interesting tales dotted around...We all know the story on the ...

In the good old days, you could let your children play outside all evening, you’d dress up (and save up) to go to the cinema, Pluto was a planet and curry came in one flavour and was bought in a can. But times change and as it’s only penny sweets that seem immune to inflation, it is unsurprising ...