My questions are:
1. Does anyone else have experience of getting a shared ownership mortgage in the UK? If so who was your mortgage provider?
2. Is it worth paying an IFA £350 to arrange a mortgage if the number of lenders is limited and I can speak to them directly? What else do IFAs do for their money?
I'm struggling to find out who provides this type of mortgage - for more info see below.
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posted by mairuzu
on Mar 16, 2010 -
3 answers
Daughter is possibly moving to London and will need to rent a 1 bedroom flat in a good neighborhood. What should she expect to pay per month? Where is a good place to find a list of flats that are available to rent? Will it hard to find a place that will accept cats?
posted by Flacka
on Mar 14, 2010 -
15 answers
SO and I have been given £150 for a nice meal out. Where in London can we go for the kind of food we'd never normally splash out on?
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posted by mippy
on Mar 2, 2010 -
30 answers
Traveling through Ireland, Wales, and England next week, with essentially ONE day each in Dublin, Wexford, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, and London. Anything off the beaten path that we should check out?
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posted by D.Billy
on Mar 1, 2010 -
19 answers
Can you recommend a quiet, cheap hostel room or B&B in London or SE UK where I can rest for a week and get over jetlag?
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posted by Not Supplied
on Feb 23, 2010 -
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I'm in Madrid this semester, and would like to pick up an old rangefinder camera (film) or similar for around 20 euros. Is digging around antique shops and similar my best bet? Do you know a place? Or are there actually some not-terribly-expensive used camera shops in this big pretty city? Are there secondhand shops/thrift stores at all in this town? Aware of El Rastro, tried once with no luck and will probably try again Sunday. I'll also be in London next weekend and am not opposed to buying it there if you know a place.
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posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew
on Feb 11, 2010 -
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Question about London real estate. I'm an American reading an article about London real estate in an American newspaper and don't understand parts of it. More detail inside.
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posted by dfriedman
on Feb 5, 2010 -
11 answers
Anyone know a good pizza restaurant in the vicinity of UCL, Gower Street?
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posted by Edwahd
on Feb 2, 2010 -
9 answers
UK/London Events Filter: I am looking for a site or a group which lists events such as (paid and free) talks, debates, seminars etc so many of which take place in London every week.
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posted by london302
on Jan 19, 2010 -
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Traveling from the US to the UK - I'll be spending the month of May in London on a working holiday, and I'm in the process of looking for a flat, but I'm flailing a bit and could use some advice.
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posted by mewithoutyou
on Jan 16, 2010 -
14 answers
Other than CAMRA's guide, is there a listing or website that covers pubs serving real ale in London and surrounding areas?
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posted by tommasz
on Jan 13, 2010 -
6 answers
LondonMobileServiceFilter: Will be in London for 4 months as a student, have an iPhone, would like to continue using it but don't want to use the AT&T overseas rates, what should i do about this? Do I have to jailbreak my iPhone in order to use another service? And what service is the best in London?
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posted by Del Far
on Jan 6, 2010 -
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Will be visiting London again - in either September or October. I need to know the best (least confusing) reasonably priced way to travel to Whittington Castle in Oswestry, Shrophire - there will be 2 adults in my party.
posted by pamspanda
on Jan 4, 2010 -
5 answers
Atypical London NYE: I've lived in London for about five years now, but I've never spent the holidays here. Other than the default nightclub/tube home/kebab, what could I get up to tomorrow night?
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posted by Kreiger
on Dec 30, 2009 -
5 answers
What gift(s) could I request for Christmas that would make my life more interesting, social, or creative?
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posted by Kirn
on Dec 9, 2009 -
11 answers
Looking for recommendations for things to do in London. Asking on behalf of a colleague, who is visiting from America for a week over Christmas.
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posted by Conductor71
on Dec 7, 2009 -
21 answers
How has your recent experience been flying with British Airways, particularly if it was to and from the US? Is it not such a good idea to fly with them right now? BA
really hasn't been doing so well lately, so I don't imagine staff morale is all that high at the moment - and from what I've read over the internet they seem to have a particularly bad reputation for losing luggage. How were your recent flights with them?
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posted by catchingsignals
on Dec 6, 2009 -
22 answers
What musicians would you consider to be
London musicians? I'm not talking about people who have merely passed through London to do a few gigs or record an album -- otherwise, you'd have to list everybody who ever recorded at Abbey Road! Instead, I'm looking for folks whose work grew out of the city's cultural scene in some real way, whether London natives like Dizzee Rascals or transplants like George Frideric Handel.
More broadly, what styles of music originated (entirely or partially) in London? I know about grime and dubstep--what others are there?
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posted by yankeefog
on Dec 2, 2009 -
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I live in London in a flat of three, and someone wants to move out. We have someone else ready to move in. The lettings agency wish to charge £150 for swapping a person over, and £100 for admin fees. Can we dispute this, for a more reasonable fee?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 16, 2009 -
6 answers
Quick! need a restaurant recommendation for London City / Shoreditch area, for tonight. Casual but not too casual. Was thinking St Johns Bread and Wine but I left it too late to get a table.
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posted by mary8nne
on Nov 13, 2009 -
7 answers
For various reasons, I'm planning on walking the A10 from
London Bridge to the North Circ (Shoreditch, Kingsland Rd, Stoke Newington Rd, Stamford Hill, Tottenham High Rd, Bruce Grove, Roundway, Gt Cambridge Rd). I'll have my camera with me...
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posted by twine42
on Nov 12, 2009 -
9 answers
Make London work. Help a beleaguered New Yorker figure out how to acclimate. Griping follows.
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posted by zvs
on Nov 9, 2009 -
25 answers
What is the best national express bus stop to go to in order to end up near Clerkenwell, London?
posted by srboisvert
on Oct 26, 2009 -
3 answers
How can I find out what sort of New Year's Eve events and festivities were held on December 31, 1899? I'm specifically interested in London, but other places would help too.
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posted by gottabefunky
on Oct 21, 2009 -
4 answers
My leather jacket needs a new lining. Im in London. Where should I go and what should I expect to pay?
posted by ElmerFishpaw
on Oct 17, 2009 -
3 answers
Hey there! I'm moving to Brussels for a job early November, and I'm trying to plan my move from London. What is the best way to do this move?
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posted by meso
on Oct 16, 2009 -
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I'm thinking about working as a nanny in England for a year or so. I'm a twenty-one-year-old American woman with a few years of experience with kids as a teacher's assistance and tutor. Anybody know a good way I could start looking for a position from the U.S.?
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posted by grobstein
on Oct 12, 2009 -
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Where in London, UK did I see a "model village"-style map of the city centre? In a building near Bloomsbury, it was pretty big (something like 2x3m) and at ground level just inside a private building's glass front wall. It was astonishingly detailed, with all the buildings in a few square miles of central London represented as scale models.
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posted by metaBugs
on Oct 5, 2009 -
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I can't get skype working on my Ubuntu machine. Where can I go to use skype in London from 11pm GMT tomorrow onwards?
Is there a suitably equipped internet cafe open then?
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posted by Not Supplied
on Sep 29, 2009 -
7 answers
Found a flat, put down a deposit. Now the landlord wants more money. What can we do?
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posted by greytape
on Sep 28, 2009 -
13 answers
London in the early 1990s. (Or, Britain in general). How did it differ from the present day? What were the little, day-to-day differences, the minutiae that was of its time? Any books or resources recommended?
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posted by mippy
on Sep 25, 2009 -
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