How more than 20,000 Koreans started living in this quiet London suburb
About 20 minutes away from central London by train, New Malden is a quiet suburb where you would not expect to find over 20,000 Koreans living in London. After all, the other Asian communities in London seem to prefer hanging out downtown — Chinatown is in Westminster, and Little India is in Southall, for example. But if you walk…
UK property market broke records in Sept. And then THIS happened
Was the UK property headed for ‘the moon’? No, not quite. (It’s probably a good thing we don’t see property prices gain 10,339,116% in 15 months like the Shiba Inu coin has) However, on Nov. 17 Her Majesty’s Land Registry published a September UK Price Index that showed UK property prices have been breaking some records of their own.…
The battle of two cities
People always love a good rivalry. HKU Vs. NUS. Cafe de Coral Vs. Fairwood. …Birmingham Vs. Manchester? The two cities have been fighting for ‘UK’s Second City’ status for years (Although Manchester sometimes claims the title ‘The Capital of the North’, neither city can really challenge London yet). It’s always been quite clear who has…
Interest-ing times ahead
Since the start of the pandemic, the UK property market has made it a point to do the exact opposite of what many major news headlines predicted. So far, the market has shrugged off every strain of COVID-19, lockdowns, Brexit, and the frequent warnings of a crash or correction. As of August 2021, the UK official house price index grew…