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How many of the bigger players that featured so large throughout the boom are still in the game, does anyone know?

It is true right enough that most of this is actually the buyers' own fault -- nobody forced them to buy, they thought they were pulling one over on the foreigners. However a lot of people would not have bought if the selling agents and the newspapers had been more truthful about the products...

It seems very unusual that the service charges are not allocated by Square footage; as well as being very unfair. Can you not raise this at the next meeting of the management committee? Any reasonable person would surely agree that the present situation is unjust.

The crane owner is bound to have had insurance; you need to have your lawyer get in touch with their insurers right away. On the brighter side, insurance companies are usually very good to deal with on issues like this. Get a loss adjuster on the job to agree the figures with them and get...

I agree completely with the last two posters. This makes absolutely no sense, particularly in the current climate. Please think about the following points: 1. You are proposing to buy in an unfinished development; you have no idea how many of the properties will be actually finished and...

You probably are mad if you are buying a new villa from a developer in the current climate. I'd say forget any promise of rent and go down the road and buy a second-hand place for half the price. At least you'll know what is around you and what shape it's in. You'll also save the hefty...

One good thing about it, you can bring your mummy!

I notice that the newspapers are again carrying ads for overseas property, as well as articles extolling the good points of various developments. Dermot Condon had pieces in recent editions of SBP about overseas investments. Is this wishful thinking on behalf of overseas agencies, or are we...

Anywhere in Nueva Andalucia would be fine, or San Pedro. Depends on how much driving you want to do to get to beaches etc. I would advise where possible in that general area to get an apartment on the sea side of the dual carriageway; it means that kids can walk to the beach without risk. either...

For those prices, you could buy sheets in any hypermarket.

As another poster said, go to Fortwilliam. Take your time going down via Glencoe, it's one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland. If you haven't time to go hiking in it, there's a ski lift near the Rannock Moor end of Glencoe, can't remember which mountian its on, but you can use it to...

How much did it cost and how much have you paid already? If you have a relatively small deposit paid, you might be able to just lose it and walk.

That's the place I meant, thought it was called the Picadilly Arcade but you're right, it's the Burlington Arcade. Good place to have a look anyway before trying elsewhere, very knowledgable about Rolex.

A word of caution, only park in campsites. A motorhome can be seen by certain thugs as easy pickings; there was a bad case near Jonesboro a year or so back where a couple from the UK were badly beaten by a gang of thugs who were trying to rob them. They had parked in a layby or a carpark, can't...

This is probably a bit off topic, but not entirely. It now seems clear enough that much of the interest in property in Dubai and other places of dubious investment merit flowed from it being hyped in the newspapers and other media. Budapest makes the point that a lack of objectivity by property...

If it was a camera he was using and not a radar gun, you have been caught and you'll get the notification in the post along with a picture showing your numberplate. I don't think you will have been done for just a couple of miles over the limit though.

I've had a frequent flyer card for Aer Lingus for years, but then they stopped the scheme for a while, or did they? The website still asks for my number and I enter it, but I have no idea how to check if I have points or how to redeem them. Anyone know where I start?

Found some really nice ones in TK Max a few months ago, but you can't be sure that they would have them again, they seem to have a line for a while and then its gone. Try them anyway, or if anyone is in that area maybe they could check. It was in Blanchardstown, upstairs.

Take a ten days to two week drive around the south island of NZ, don't miss Nelson, the West Coast incl Milford Sound, Queenstown and the lakes, Fox Glacier, and whale watching off Kaikoura (spellng from memory!). The Alps are spectacular, if you get a chance to land on the glacier high up in...

I have to agree with the posters who slate Bulgaria. The resorts along the coast and in the ski areas are dire, I don't know anyone who would make a second trip there, except maybe for the poor unfortunate suckers who bought into the hype and invested/threw away their money there. The OP was...