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Real Estate in the UK

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We’ve been searching around for another flat.   There are many perks with the one we’ve had in Islington since Oct. 1, but the rent is going up £500 ($650) when our lease expires May 15 .   That actually is not a bad a price for what we have, but we’ve thought all along that we would move for a less of a big city feel than Central London.   We don’t want too far out because there’s still much we want to do here, and our friends are here. But a small village would give us another UK lifestyle to try out. On the Richmond Bridge, open since 1777. So let me explain a little about the real estate market here.   We’re getting familiar with rentals.   The market here is every bit as hot as in the U.S.   He who hesitates, is lost.   I have two websites I use to find rentals: Zoopla and Right Move.   To see it, you email the estate agent handling it. You meet the estate agent at the property.   This means I have to figure out how to get there, the t...