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Local property expert James Oliver (founder of Brighton’s original Property Search agency Find and Build) has come up with an alternative to selling your property. “Why not consider the short let option? If you have a good property in a popular area (such as the North Laine, seafront or leafy Preston Park) then you can short let your property whilst still having it on the market. Most of the short lets will be at the weekends allowing viewings to continue taking place during the week and it may well enable you to refinance and move to your dream property without having to sell.”

This also creates a unique opportunity for a buyer to ‘try before they buy’. Read the rest of this article »

How to stand out in the crowd and make your home drop-dead irresistible for potential buyers

Neutral colours and clean, bright spaces appeal most to buyers. Neutral colour scheme by Crown Paints, www.crownpaint.co.uk

What makes a property stand out to potential buyers? And what makes the difference between, well, indifference, and a firm offer? This week, Latest Interiors shows you how to get ahead of the crowd, and style your home to sell.

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The Paul O’Grady Show’s Marc Abraham tells us about the wonderful creatures that can be found in the English Channel

With the recent great weather, our thoughts naturally turn to planning that precious annual holiday abroad, and ‘getting away from it all’. We may live in the best part of the UK, but there are still times when life, work, or the mother-in-law, get you down.

Indeed, we all have our own ways to escape, but there is one true getaway that’s right on our doorstep, and so underused. I’m talking about the English Channel, and the benefits of spending time below its surface.

“I couldn’t have predicted the amount and variety of life we encountered”

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Malone discovers that sometimes, all people really want is a trip down to the local for a quick pint

My dad has been asked if he’d like to see or do anything before he dies. He said he wanted to go to his local pub! It took five people but they managed it. He had to be put in a wheelchair, hoisted into a stairlift, then hoisted back into a wheelchair, carried down some stairs outside to the wheelchair and then finally wheeled to the pub. Where presumably he had a nice relaxing roast dinner and pint of Guinness, worrying about the palaver to get back home safe in bed! Sounds more like an ordeal than an outing.

“My dad went to prison for smuggling 50lbs of marijuana in 1969. They gave him a nine month sentence”

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Andrew Kay takes a break from the web to ponder life before computers

All quiet at Fort Latest this morning. The sun is beating down, the windows are open and the wind is rattling the Venetian blinds, but other than that it is quiet. But why? Well the internet connection has gone down and for many of us here that is like cutting the umbilical cord.

How did we manage before the wonder of the world wide web. Come to that how did we manage before the advent of computers on every desk. Well remarkably well as it happens.

“I spent many afternoons in a creative stupor and, on occasions, the drink gave birth to good ideas”

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