Country Property News
Vendors stirring after banner year for high-end country house market
2021 saw the highest number of £5m+ country house sales in 15 years, according to new data from Knight Frank
Second home tax loophole closed
New rules mean holiday lets must be rented out for a minimum of 70 days a year to qualify for lower local tax rates.
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.
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.
‘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.
‘Next year will see super-prime return with a bang’ & other property market predictions from a top buying agent
Edward Heaton, founder and managing partner of buying agency Heaton & Partners, shares his top property market predictions for the year ahead.
House of the Year 2021: Britain’s seven best-designed new homes, in pictures
A contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire has been named RIBA's House of the Year for 2021.
In Pictures: Inside the best historic house projects of the year
A stately Georgian pile in Derbyshire and a glorious Scottish walled garden are amongst the winners of this year's Historic Houses Awards, dished out to recognise outstanding work by private owners of…
Para 80 project approved on the edge of Sussex’s Ashdown Forest
A new contemporary home set within a Humphrey Repton-designed park has been given the green light by Wealden District Council.
House of the Year 2021: Britain’s 20 best new houses & extensions
RIBA has picked the 20 best new homes and home-extensions in Britain, including a house on stilts, a converted water tower, a modern take on a Kent oast house, and some remarkable heritage reinterpretations
New England-style home in the Chilterns seeks £5m
The Copse was originally built some 120 years ago, but was completely renovated in 2002 by much-admired architect Roderick James.