Location: Country
Popstar’s £6.75m country mansion marked as sold
The Wiltshire home of Robbie and Ayda Williams, Compton Bassett House, was brought to market via Knight Frank last year
London & Cornwall vie to be Britain’s most searched-for property location
Rightmove recorded just 3% more property searches in London than in Cornwall through 2021, compared to a gap of 24% in 2020, and 49% in 2019.
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Country Life delves into property archives for 125th anniversary
The venerable weekly first hit the shelves in January 1897, and has since carried adverts for some of Britain’s most significant country house sales
Octagon eying new sites as new-build market shapes up
Luxury housebuilder has seen some 'extremely lively' sales activity in recent months
Country houses out-performed in 2021, but PCL’s property market is primed to ‘bounce rapidly’ this year
Savills expects prime regional price growth to moderate this year, while Prime Central London prices feel ready to surge upwards.
‘Vintage year’ for the prime country house market as top-end prices surge 20%
“I’ve never known a time like it in 30-plus years," says Rupert Sweeting, head of national country sales at Knight Frank.
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Cash buyers have been out in force this year
Jackson-Stops reports a 12% year-on-year increase in the number of all-cash purchases across England, with volumes also outstripping pre-pandemic levels
‘We have seen a huge rise of people returning to their roots’: Property market predictions from a Welsh buying agent
West Wales Property Finders boss Carol Peet expects demand for country and coastal homes to continue to run hot in 2022.
Planners green-light Hollaway’s latest country house project
Hollaway Studio has chalked up another planning win in the Kent countryside, this time on behalf of T&G designer homes
Another major agency makes the switch to electric cars
‘Perhaps the biggest surprise is that our most traditional agents have embraced the change with such positivity’, says John D Wood’s MD Polly Ogden Duffy