What are the good web sites for finding housing in London?  Several people have emailed us asking this question recently. We performed an informal inquiry. Here's our list of the top six UK-based web sites for finding a place to live in London. 

Home prices fell in the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter, but were up 2 percent from the market's trough in the first quarter of 2009, according to the latest Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller National Home Price Indices report released today.

Data through March 2010 shows that U.S. National Home Price Index fell 3.2%, but remains above its year-earlier level. Housing prices have rebounded from crisis lows, but recently the market has seen renewed weakness as tax incentives are ending and foreclosures are climbing.

This is part two in a series of short videos where the panelist's conversation continues on the current condition of the U.S. housing market and what makes Oakland's housing market different.

Some of the questions discussed in this segment are:
 

 Back in February, a forum of local real estate consultants convened at the Ellington condominium building, a new high-rise, multi-unit residential building located in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA.

We loved this short video. It does a nice, quiet job of conveying the tasty looking food that Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, chefs at Animal, put out of their kitchen in Los Angeles. Produced by the New Yorker.

George Steinmetz takes photographs from a paraglider rather than from a plane or helicopter. This technique gives him great flexibility. It also allows him to produce some startling images. We particularly love the photos of African villages and towns, like the fortified villages of Ghardaia, Algeria.
 

We just came across this 6-part documentary produced in 1997 by the BBC and hosted by Stewart Brand. It's a fascinating look at how buildings "learn" after the users take over. Music is by Brian Eno.

 

On a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (near Monaco), Eileen Gray’s E-1027 house was built to share with her lover, Romanian architect and critic Jean Badovici. The name of the house sounds impersonal, but it is in fact a numeric code for their joint initials.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.