Location: South East
Surrey & London buying agency expands team
Richard Winter has recruited Knight Frank and Savills alumni to his property search team.
Jane Austen’s Hampshire birthplace offered for £8.5mn
Celebrated novelist Jane Austen lived in the original Steventon House for 25 years, and wrote three of her most famous works there.
Leaders Romans Group acquires Sussex lettings agency
Two-branch agency Stanley & Partners will now operate under the Leaders banner.
Home Counties ‘eye-catcher’ with Katharine Pooley interior goes up for sale
In Pictures: Designed in the 1700s as an eye-catcher for Stowe House, Stowe Castle is looking for offers around £4.5mn.
Savills moves to new digs in Reading
Property consultancy marks ten years in town with a move to a high-spec office development.
Bidwells recruits former Berkeley Group boss to steer the business through its ‘most transformative decade yet’
Berkeley Group's former Operations Director Kelly Bream has joined Oxford-Cambridge property agency Bidwells as COO.
London tenants cross the M25 in record numbers
Rental prices continue to escalate across the country, reports Hamptons.
Super-sustainable housing scheme in East Sussex promises to be Britain’s biggest timber-structure neighbourhood
Sustainable property developer Human Nature has revealed plans to transform a 7.9 hectare brownfield site in Lewes into a new 700-home mixed-use neighbourhood with top-notch sustainability credentials.
Prime country houses prices tipped to remain 20-25% above pre-pandemic levels
'Much of the froth has now come out of the market and buyers are generally more measured in their approach, especially with regard to values,' says buying agency Heaton & Partners.
New Head of Sales for Carter Jonas in Hampshire
Sophie Richardson has moved from Savills in Petworth to Carter Jonas in Winchester
Prime rental price growth slows as the market becomes ‘less frantic’
Savills expects prime London rental growth to calm from its double-digit run to +5.0% over 2023 and +3.0% by the end of 2024. The prime commuter belt is set for an even sharper slowdown.
Upward Extension Tangles: On the pitfalls & opportunities of Permitted Development Rights
Roy Pinnock of Dentons explores the complex use and ramifications of permitted development rights at a property development in Newbury.