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More funding for green spaces is good for the housing crisis
James Brokenshire, secretary of state for communities, has announced £13 million of funding for green spaces. James Brokenshire, secretary of state for communities, has announced £13 million of funding for green spaces. This will include £9.7 million for day-to-day maintenance and creation of new spaces, alongside £2.7 million for the Pocket Parks Plus programme. The…
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Client Money Protect becomes first to gain government approval to operate a CMP Scheme
Client Money Protect, part of the Hamilton Fraser group of companies, has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on April 1st 2019. From April 1st, it will become mandatory for all letting agents and property managers in England to be a member of an approved…
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Aston Mead backs report advocating development of 45,000 homes in UK high streets
Leading Surrey & Berkshire land agents Aston Mead is throwing its weight behind a new report which suggests that thousands of new homes could be delivered across the UK by developing vacant space in high streets. The report, ‘Making Sense of Mixed-Use Town Centres’ produced by planning and development consultancy Turley, says that there is…
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The nation’s most lucrative property postcodes revealed
The latest research by for sale by owner empowerment portal, OkayLah.co.uk, has looked at where across England and Wales is home to the most lucrative property postcodes, based on the amount of property sold there over the last year. The data shows that despite slower market conditions caused by political and economic uncertainty, over £250bn…
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Keeping your clients data secure and compliant
Over the years, advancements in cloud software and the associated technology have enabled us to do things with ever increasing ease and forever decreasing cost. Fortunately, gone are the days of prohibitively high licence fees, packages that can’t be used remotely and systems can’t talk to each other. Instead, it now seems there are a…
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Tuath Housing Association to redevelop Ellis Court in to Social Housing
An impressive and now vacant Victorian Dublin property (built in the 1880’s) is to be redeveloped in to social housing at a cost of €6 million by Tuath Housing Association. 22 units are to be created within ‘Ellis Court’ which was a former Dublin City Council building that has sat derelict since being damaged by…
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Skipton International UK buy-to-let mortgages now available to foreign nationals
Skipton International has today [18 February] announced that it will be extending its UK buy- to-let mortgage proposition to include applications from non-UK nationals resident overseas. Previously the offshore lender only offered UK buy-to-let mortgages to British expatriates. This news follows the decision to considerably expand Skipton International’s investment property lending criteria over the last…
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Housing association Jigsaw Homes to build 50 new homes
Tameside council have received a proposal to build 50 new homes next to the listed Cavendish Mill, off Cavendish Street from Housing association Jigsaw Homes which will include an apartment block and a range of three storey houses. The site which is just 6 miles East of Manchester was recently described a somewhere not to be…
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Bennett Homes continues its shared equity initiative
Bennett Homes are an award winning company building high quality traditional new homes in East Anglia for more than 70 years. It is continuing with the drive to offer affordable housing to the community in 2019 with shared equity schemes available on two and three bedroom houses at The Signals, Watton, and on two bedroom apartments at…
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Grabbing the community housing opportunity
Kit Malthouse, housing minister, has announced £6 million of funding for the Community Led Homes Programme. Funding of up to £10,000, managed by four charities, will be provided for groups to cover start-up costs. A further £3.5 million will be made available for technical advice and guiding communities through the house building process. The funding…
National Federation of Builders
Jeremy Corbyn – Can I buy a £650,000 flat for just £162,500 please?
A few damning headlines in the national press, and quite rightly so in my mind, in fact when is the investigation due please on Jeremy Corbyn’s son who has been reported to have purchased a 2 bedroom flat in London for £162,500 when the others in the block are valued at £650,000 and then uses…
Christopher Walkey
Housing affordability improves at fastest rate for eight years
National average price of newly-marketed property rises by 0.7% (+£1,981) this month, consistent with the average 0.6% February uplift in the previous two years With the average annual rate of growth at only 0.2% (+£714), annual wage growth of 3.4%* is now outstripping asking prices at the fastest rate since 2011, improving buyer affordability New…
Rightmove
Strategic housing investment is another positive step
James Brokenshire has announced £250 million for housing deals, which includes £157 million for infrastructure funding for roads and green spaces. The money will help deliver a range of projects across the UK, including 10,000 homes on 7 Ministry of Defence sites and more than 1,500 homes at the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park. The…
National Federation of Builders
Council demands extra £360,000 following Right-to-Buy blunder
Right-to-Buy which many will see as a completely out of date, unfair and a drain to the UK housing stock hits the headlines again with Islington Council, who gave away at a discount one of their flats on Islington street, now demanding at extra £360,000 following a blunder on ‘bedrooms’. Two years later the council saw the…
Christopher Walkey
Founded in 1825 – Cheffins is changing…
Cheffins has a long and prestigious history, with seven offices across the south-east of England and an array of services offered Residential Sales & Lettings, Property Auctions, Commercial Property, Planning, Machinery & Vintage Auctions and Fine Art. Despite a ‘senior’ position in UK estate agency the brand has gone for a fresh new re-brand and new…
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