Landlord Voice Magazine October 2015 - Brighton and Hove | Page 14
Discovering
the unknown unknowns
P
roperty Detective is a web‐
based property research
tool which allows home movers
to check any English or Welsh
postcode against crime rates,
schools, noise pollution and
much more.
Landlord Voice had a
chat with CEO Barry Bridges
about the business.
The edict that an
Englishman’s home is his castle
was introduced into common law
in the 15th century but it said
nothing about its surrounding
area.
No reference was made to
barking dogs, descending aircraft
or a lack of local amenities.
These are factors which can have
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“It’s not just the big problems which
take people by surprise, lots of combined
smaller ones c an also mean trouble”
a palpable effect on a person’s
everyday quality of life and when
they started affecting Barry
Bridges after a house purchase
go