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The Times Online report that people in the property field – “from developers to estate agents” – are brainstorming in order to combat what is being called a post-apocalyptic market.

Apparently, the market in the UK must “adapt or die.”

If this is true, then I think that it applies to every facet of the field, including those who are looking to buy and sell houses. So I’ve done a bit of brainstorming myself; just thinking, really, about what I might consider doing if I needed to sell my house in today’s harsh marketplace. And I can’t help but think that the sell and rent back scheme is a brilliant idea.
It certainly qualifies as an adaption, I think. Certainly it’s an option I had never heard of before. But it is also subtle, and I think it is in that that the beauty lies. You can sell your house, and carry on living there without anyone knowing about it being sold at all. It seems convenient, and really rather easy.

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In an unrelated, yet distantly similar note, there is news of a battery that can run on air. The potential of the product is huge, really. If every iPod user, for example, can use a battery that runs on air, instead of using huge amounts of electricity to recharge them, then that’s a pretty awesome development.

And if you believe in global warming, then the aforementioned Darwinian ultimatum extends to more than just the house market. Things like this battery, in isolation, are small steps; but when these technological developments are combined together, they make for quite exciting news, I think.