Location: Midlands
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…
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…
‘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.
Hadley recruits a fleet of new directors to manage ambitious expansion plans
Residential developer Hadley Property Group has appointed five new directors to its central London team, as part of a strategy to "to take the company from a medium-sized business to a leading player in…
Asking prices have risen by 50% in ten years to breach £300k – but London has come to a standstill
The average price of a property coming to market in England and Wales has breached £300,000 for the first time, according to Rightmove's latest stats, but London prices are at a standstill.
Osborne extends SDLT surcharge and cracks down on offshore developers #Budget 2016
"We can choose to be a force for stability", said Chancellor George at the start of today's Budget speech, but four overhauls of the nation's finances within 12 months - two full Budgets, an extra Summer…
High Court slashes estate agent’s ‘outrageous’ money laundering fine
A £169,652 fine imposed on a Northamptonshire estate agency for failings related to money laundering regulation has been ridiculed by a High Court judge, who called the amount "seriously disproportionate",…