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Were you the only offer?

Open Days. Usually a sign of a large market with high demand. I was looking at Croydon 2 years ago and they used to have 30 min long open days on Saturdays. You ended up joining them for like 4 of the properties. There would be maybe around 70 people at each. Then they would go to sealed and final bids by lunch time the following Monday. Always went for like 10% over asking price. An absolutely crazy market but why would agents do any differently. they couldn't cater for all 70 people. Never heard of them doing them during usual working hours though, maybe if its a property with serious renovation needs and thus would be more catered for serious developers. Auctions are also different. FYI, i run a small resi property fund and manage a few properties. Mostly SW London, but also Oxfordshire and soon to be Sutton Coldfield

I Dont know if this is just due to Premier League or due to it being a very good player going from and too clubs that are unlikely to find another player anyway near as good. Can you name a players who would be as influential as Sigy who would go to Everton for Less?

This! People predict a housing crash every year but until supply outgrows demand, how and why would prices drop? To reduce demand, you would have to change the British viewpoint that one needs to own a house, which iif it does happen it wont be in a year. This would also lead to a higher demand and thus prices for rent. are peoples beliefs still going to be you dont need to own a house if rent goes up and house prices go down?

I know Giroud is the but end of jokes etc but is he really that bad signing. This past season he has the best goals per minute ratio in the premier league. Fine he didnt play as many minutes as alot of the players he has beaten but you can only score when on the field. I also understand the argument that goal scoring is only one aspect of whats needed from a forward but it is obviously the most important one in most cases.

Yeah, if going down this route you should seek legal advice. Yeah, there shouldnt be an issue if buying at market value, although i dont know what you would have to do to confirm it is market value, I presume just get a valuation from a surveyor and pay that price. However, again seek legal advice as you never know what laws will be in place for this, probably something stupid like you have to have the property up for sale with a local estate at that price for 2 weeks before you can sell it to a relative or who knows what.

No Tax to pay if parents no longer live in it and child is going to live in it and parents live for more than 7 years afterwards. Inheritance Tax comes in if Parents dont live for another 7 years. Maket rate rent would need to be paid by parents if staying in property or it would be designated as still part of parents estate. Children would have to pay tax on the rental income If the child does not live in the property and sells it at a later date, they will need to pay capital gains tax on profits

Of course, sorry, you are right. If you buy a house for market price, should be no issues with tax or anything like that, just your mortgage provider may not allow it, they often don't like sales between related people. If they give you the house ("gift") what i said above is true. If you buy for below market value, i.e 50% it is considered the difference (50%) is gifted to you and that is eligible to inheritance tax in the same manor as above

From Erdington High Street to Henley, very Swanky!

Such a weird rule. thought it was 5 but either way. However you arnt taxed on anything below £325,000 if one parent and £650,000 if both parents. So for example if your buying it off both your parents, and god forbid they both passed away in the next 7 years, you would only be taxed on any values over £650,000 so if the house is less than that you woulndnt be taxed on it. I think this is right anyway, happy to be corrected

Im looking at this as the way football look at incidents after they occur. If the ref is believed to have seen it and given punishment for it, that punishment stands, if not then one can be given. The Stewards obviously saw the incident and gave a (too lenient) punishment for the action.

I presumed that was the case. As an Irishman who grew up in England who then moved back for University at UCD and with a gf from Waterford, i am very used to it as well and often will use alot of the terms which probably sound very wrong with my English accent. your one and you know yourself probably being the worst.

yes and use the word after in the context i presented, which is not usual outside of Ireland

This is weird, i literally wondered the same on Sunday. Girlfriend said: they probably just use a different word, which after checking, they do not. Must be ''yama" same as to call

you're after making a mockery of the language.

This, People have talked about the bubble bursting for decades. The way i see it, is back to basic economics. Demand for housing grows faster than supply in housing. This makes prices go up. When i say prices thats the combination of rental prices and house prices. People need places to live and are either buying houses (house price increase) or renting houses (rental prices increase) or a mixture of both. Untill supply matches demand overall prices are likely to keep rising. My viewpoint is mainly from greater London though where the disparity between demand and supply is large

Nah, dont see it. If he does go back to UFC which im not even sure he will, this doesnt seem the one to have. He would have alot to lose but not alot to gain from it (especially now money for these fights wont be a big deal) If he goes back to UFC its to get the 3rd (170) belt. (IMO) Hes got a big Ego but has never made the wrong decision for his future, losing another fight at 170 wouldnt really cause much harm to his legacy, losing to Nurma would.

Well i **** love it. Good on ya Seb. I feel like it is something MS would have done and adds some flavour to the very bland recent F1 seasons. I also might be biased as i hate that little cockwomble Hamilton. IMO he has always acted like a spoilt brat. BTW iv just read some things briefly, does hamilton talk/incur about being the bigger man, then also say "Lets take this outside"?

Mine is meant to arrive today. Iv had the 1 and then the 3 which broke 2 months ago

Ah, i used to have the old triple vodka with WKD as a mixer, back in my days. Also Fat Frogs which is a very irish thing: Blue WKD, Smirnoff Ice and Orange Bacardi Breezer pored into 2 pint glasses and shared with a friend

Well i found that information mildly interesting . @BOF, dont listen to the begrudgers. What other alcohol based titbits do you have to share?

The question is, if you believe in afterlife, what do you believe you are like in that afterlife? your "spirit"? does it have any mass? what does it involve. Everyone talks of a place with loved ones etc, but your love for those people and your memories of them are all in your brain: "After consolidation, long-term memories are stored throughout the brain as groups of neurons that are primed to fire together in the same pattern that created the original experience, and each component of a memory is stored in the brain area that initiated it" When you die, your brain stays in your decaying body and these reactions no longer occur. Thus even if there is an afterlife, you have no memories or love or anything which at all resembles you now.

Hes not saying he doesnt want an afterlife, just saying you shouldnt be terrified of nothing, as you wont even know about it.

Im just playing Devils Advocate here and im not actually saying this is a comparable belief to believing in God but: Would you belittle someone who believes the earth is flat, honestly?

My Sister and BIL live very close to the Tower, they had debris falling in their garden and getting into their house. They offered their spare room for housing as soon they could, havnt heard anything back. I would suggest alot of spare rooms would have been offered maybe even more than needed if the other types of help and support is anything to go by.... I know families need houses etc but that's difficult