Enlightening chart by Lucian Cook using data from TwentyCi on the property market.

Lots of people with expensive homes are having a punt at selling them - many are struggling to do so.

Hello Wendy Blythe, would you mind following me so I can send you a message? Thank you.

Here's what I think the Jewish Chronicle and the Campaign Against Antisemitism are getting wrong in their approach to the culture war over conflict in the Middle East

jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-wr…

Well done, Barnet. Residents deserve better.

thetimes.co.uk/article/8a3193…

NIMBYism wastes time & taxpayers money - the share of rejected applicants over turned increased by 30% last year. “The cost of handling appeals rose to more than £30m in the last published financial reports for the Planning Inspectorate. Of those costs, roughly £10m was spent

A great piece by Martina Lees on the ongoing saga of cladding - we won’t forget these people thetimes.co.uk/article/34c5aa…

A deeply moving update by Martina Lees on the ongoing, mushrooming, cladding scandal and its terrible impact on hundreds of thousands of people. A truly shameful episode that has a long way still to run.

thetimes.co.uk/article/34c5aa…

I don’t love some of the looser speculation in this piece, nor do I massively care about the role of Robbie Gibb.

But the central question posed is extremely valid: it’s long past time the ownership of the Jewish Chronicle was made public.

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…

Wondering if a similar tactic might work for my 12-year-old daughter

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Ok, radical latest attempt to end family tech arguments... #phonefree

Hey Crystal Palace F.C., an idea...

I can't get over this. It's absolutely killing the game #VAR #COVMNU

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Shocking to see this in mainstream Israeli press. It’s like saying there are Israelis sitting in cafes so no one is traumatised in Israel.

What do you want Ynetnews? For every child to stop smiling & be starving to believe there is a problem? That’s called collective punishment

Thousands dead, 40 years of cover-up, no one has ever been held to account. It's time for justice for the infected blood victims. The Sunday Times is campaigning for action. Now. #bloodydisgrace  thetimes.co.uk/article/8d8a59…

Another day, another Tory compromise. Rishi Sunak has sided with Michael Gove, overruling opposition from the treasury, to announce ground rents on existing leasehold properties to be capped at £250 for 20ys. Though a marginal improvement, the promised “peppercorn” it is not.

Interesting context to this briefing: Gove recently met a lot of these funds.

Government was pretty shocked to learn that a lot of them had made sizeable investments in ground rent portfolios post-2019, *after* the Tories had made a manifesto commitment to peppercorn rates

Desperation kicks in:
“The Treasury has drawn up plans to inc the threshold at which people start paying the duty from £250,000 to £300,000. The move, which would cost £3 billion a year by 2028-29, would mean that nearly half of all people buying homes would pay no stamp duty,

This is excellent by Rachel Mortimer, busting a frequently-regurgitated myth about 'rich boomers'

thetimes.co.uk/article/405651…