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...Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, says a rise in mortgage rates from 4 per cent to 6 per cent reduces a purchaser’s buying power by up to 20 per cent if they want to keep monthly mortgage payments...
...“Sellers need to remain realistic if they are to take advantage of improving market conditions to secure a sale and move home in 2024,” says Richard Donnell, Zoopla’s executive director of research....
...Last year, Richard and his wife Amanda relocated to Cambridge when she got a job with a biotech company in one of the city’s science parks....
...Louise Rowlands, a buying agent at Surrey-based Richard Winter Property Search, has seen “a huge increase” in people deciding to downsize....
...Kent-based company Harrison Ovens, whose charcoal cookers have been used in restaurant kitchens run by chefs such as Yotam Ottolenghi and Richard Corrigan, reports that 60 per cent of this year’s orders...
...Analysis by Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, shows that as mortgage rates rise from 2 per cent to 5 per cent, the amount a purchaser can borrow while keeping monthly mortgage payments the same...
...“Two properties that were on the sales market for more than £40m have instead been rented out for about £20,000 a week,” says Richard Dalton, head of flats at Savills Sloane Street....
...We believe in our artists and the best we can do is have a great space for them,” Richard says....
...As with the hidden financial costs of integrating renewable power (letter from Robert Goss and Phil Heptonstall, August 24), similar hidden, environmental costs relating to all “green tech products” — must...
...Ian Bostridge sings not only early 17th-century songs by John Dowland (over-interpreted), but also Schubert, Dominick Argento and a new commission, Stephen Goss’s delicately imaginative settings of Chinese...
...Then there’s chef James Goss of the King’s Arms in Rutland, Tom Adams of Pitt Cue in London, and Richard Turner and James George, who brought the New York butchery festival Meatopia to London last year....
...They are: Ernst Frankel, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT; Richard Goss of Cardiff University; and Arnljot Stromme Svendsen of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration...
...Mike Goss, a managing director of the company, said this high personal commitment meant Bain employees had to eat their own cooking....
...Meanwhile the collector Kenny Goss, Tierney’s countryman and partner of singer George Michael, reveals that he’ll be on the hunt for YBA pieces and works by Richard Long and Bridget Riley....
...One of them suggested selling the boat to pay for their passage but the most experienced seaman among them, Captain Richard Nicholls, offered to skipper them there on their own boat....
...Richard Posner, an appeals court judge and author of Uncertain Shield: The US Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform, argues that the legislation was misguided and has indeed produced another layer...
...In addition to the appointment of Mr Negroponte and of Porter Goss at the CIA, intelligence operations are being revamped in a region neglected since the end of the cold war. ?...
...So did Porter Goss, the CIA boss forced out last week. The team will, however, meet James Woolsey, president Bill Clinton’s CIA director....
...The vote had been expected after Mr Goss's approval on Tuesday by the Senate intelligence committee....
...General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed on Tuesday that he opposes giving up that control....
...Mr Bush's victory means that Porter Goss, the recently appointed CIA director, will remain in post....
...“The [MI6] chief [Sir Richard Dearlove] was seduced by 10 Downing Street [the UK prime minister's office], and he should have made a more measured response,” says an intelligence insider....
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