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Busy last few weeks in London town, seen some interesting things, few pics of some of the more interesting, ranging form a gold plated (poss gold paint!)  mini in West London, an average penthouse with Amazing views over Limehouse basin and canary Wharf, shame the interior was very average but the views were some of the best I have ever seen in London from a penthouse, another very average penthouse in Notting Hill but with an amazing terrace overlooking Holland Park, a real location... Read Full Story

I see a lot of property so it takes something quite special to get my attention let alone my admiration, so how has the worlds most expensive squat managed to do that?.. It’s not even a permanent building, actually it’s not even a building, it’s a building inside a building, just stick with me it will all be clear in the end, a group of artists have transformed one of the worlds most contemporary art galleries with some of the best volume of space you can find in Central London at 196... Read Full Story

Are you about to buy a building in Berlin? Get a 20 page FREE property appraisal first. Click here to view the embedded video. Berlin has great potential if you get the right building, but it’s hard if you don’t have experience in the market to know what actual rents can be achieved in your building, or what the price for buildings is local to your property, we have over 10 years joint experience in the Berlin block market, so why not use that experience for free, we will produce a 20... Read Full Story

Having spent a great 4 days in Berlin at our office there last month (although I can only remember 1 of them) it’s a bit sad to see what the Berlin Authorities have been up to, cricket may be a minority sport but it’s still a world sport, German authorities appear to have some sort of issues with anything minority ..shades of 1939…..I hope not.         The Hitler Nazi cricket ban in Berlin has apparently been reinstated by the Berlin authorities when some little jobsworth discovered... Read Full Story

New law to finally help recognize non German qualifications which could see higher demand for Berlin apartments by expat professional moving to Berlin. Written by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated press BERLIN — Catherine Lees moved to Berlin in 2008, thinking she could easily find work in a nation whose schools are strapped for teachers. Two years later, she left, after German officials refused to recognize her early childhood education degree from Australia. “I was not going to be able... Read Full Story

We all know a cheap flight with Ryanair is anything but that once you come to pay for all the ‘add ons’ which in truth really can’t be avoided in many cases, millions of us must have been drawn in by adverts for 50p flights around Europe, but have you ever tried to book one, even that’s not easy, having flown with Ryanair for the first 3 years of traveling to Berlin, when I go now I always use Easy Jet, it’s not always perfect, and very orange but those guys made a real effort when we had all... Read Full Story

In a very clever move, Starbucks the coffee shop chain now have a special offer of just £1 for a coffee if you use your rewards card, costs 50% more if you use cash…so as a heavy black coffee drinker they have me hooked, a chance to get out the office ignore the phones, clear my head, do some reading as the Internet is a slow as hell in Starbucks not sure if that is designed so you stay or go..last count Starbucks in the Starbucks book I got given about 3 years ago had 13,000 outlets... Read Full Story

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One statistic you never find about the Berlin wall in the 20 years or so since it’s fall were the amount of people killed or injured trying to escape West Berlin to live in East Berlin, history shows 192 people were killed and 200 shot and injured trying to escape the East into the West by getting over the ‘cold wall’ as locals renamed it, but given the increasing gentrification of East Berlin, culminating with the eviction of the squatters on 2 nd February in one of the last remaining... Read Full Story

click picture to read full story on Bloomberg Germany overtook the U.K. as the most-favored investment location in Europe for unlisted real estate funds as the recovery of its economy, the continent’s largest, made offices and retail properties more attractive. The U.K. fell to fourth place behind Germany, France and the Nordic region, according to an annual report by the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles. Inrev. as the association is known, surveyed... Read Full Story