Location: Midlands
UK ‘still one of the cheapest places to invest in rental property’
In total tax take terms, the UK remains one of the cheapest countries in the world for investors involved in resi and commercial property rental, according to a new study.
Housing supply is ‘increasing markedly’ as UK-wide planning permissions rise
The number of initial planning permissions approved across Great Britain has risen steadily every year since 2009, says The Home Builders' Federation (HBF), with actual housing supply also "increasing…
Have boffins worked out how to predict the next up-and-coming neighbourhood?
Forget skips and Starbucks' - researchers from Cambridge, Birmingham, Queen Mary and UCL have put forward some compelling ideas on how location-based social networks could foretell the gentrification o…
Bidwells launches new Heritage Team
"Golden Triangle" agency Bidwells has launched a new Heritage Team, hiring some top names to lead on a raft of UK projects.
Former Savills and WYG man Chris Sufleet has been recruited to head things up. Th
Crown Estate calls in Savills for strategic portfolio advice
The Crown Estate has appointed Savills as professional advisor to project manage its Strategic Land Portfolio, which covers over 60 sites and promises a capacity for 15,000 new homes and five million sq…
The Value of Natural Heritage: Britain’s best rural locations to buy in
Prime property in rural areas represents good value against urban counterparts, says Sophie Chick, as Savills charts the green and pleasant locations that offer the best value for buyers
Londoners bought 43% of all £2m+ prime regional houses in Q1 as the town-country value gap closes
"There is now clear evidence that the record value gap between the prime London housing markets and the rest of the UK has begun to close", says Savills, as every region outperformed the capital in the …
Villarum moves in on Henry VIII’s fairytale Norfolk mansion
William Cash's recently launched "serviced country house" business, Villarum Estates, has made a play for one of the most important historic houses in Norfolk, the spectacular Grade I listed East Barsham …
Urban land values outperform in multi-speed market
The UK is seeing a highly regionalised housing market reflected in a multi-speed development land market, with urban brownfield sites powering ahead of greenfield and PCL.
At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow (exhibition)
The Royal Institute of British Architects and BBC Four have teamed up to create a new exhibition - At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow - which re-examines how we live and showcases thought-provoking id…
‘Country House clause’ win for AR Design Studio in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire's planners have invoked the "Country House Clause" - Paragraph 55 - to give the green light to a contemporary three bedroom house in the Green Belt designed by AR Design Studio.
Exploring the evergreen appeal of Capability Brown’s grand landscape designs
300 years after his birth, the influence of the great landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is still very apparent — and growing — in contemporary garden design. Savill