Location: Midlands
Catchment If You Can: Top junior schools chalk up 53% property premium
Savills has been number-crunching the latest stats from within the UK's prime regional markets and it looks like we've just seen positive growth across the whole of England for the first time in two and…
Agents’ Mutual to launch next year (ahead of schedule) as over 1,000 offices sign-up
Agents' Mutual, the unnamed estate agency-owned property portal that aims to take down the Rightmove/Zoopla duopoly, has hit its golden number of signed-up offices, and can now "move forward to implementation …
Tenants’ Charter offers longer lets, but is it needed?
Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, has set about revolutionising the lettings industry by making longer tenancies the norm, although Savills has come out to argue that there's just no need for more…
Fine & Country launches Land & New Homes division
Fine & Country has set up a Land and New Homes division in Warwickshire and the West Midlands
Magic Castle: Extraordinary holiday home in Warwickshire bags the RIBA Stirling Prize
An extraordinary modern holiday home shoehorned into the crumbling walls of an ancient moated castle has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the best new building of the year.
OK to build in National Parks; just offset the nature somewhere – Paterson
This sounds like a really bad idea: The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is scheduled to announce that developers can build in National Parks, just so long as they do some "biodiversity offsetting" …
Country Pursuit: Rural estates continue to perform
The UK's rural estates continue to perform from an investment point of view, according to Savills' latest data, thanks mainly to strong showings from the resi and agricultural sectors
Measure for Treasure: Dr Simon Thurley, head of English Heritage, on philanthropy, funding and the future of heritage
What's the future for England's past? With a funding revolution and a sea-change in how the nation's heritage assets are valued, there's a reformation taking place at English Heritage
Big Guns: In search of London’s largest homes
For our friends over in the commercial sector, ambition is measured by the loft of a skyscraper - demonstrated to great effect by the Shard et al - but here in the residential world, it's lateral space…
ES Power 1000: London property’s most influential
Releasing the authoritative rundown of the most influential Londoners last night, the Evening Standard revealed its "Power 1000" list was topped by a mewling baby this year
Belvoir rolls out three new offices
What with announcing a foray into the sales jungle last week and three new lettings offices today, Belvoir's making plenty of noise at the moment
Tough at the Top: London’s glut of £50m+ houses
There's been more action at the super-prime end of the market than ever before, according to one of London's top buying agencies