Home buyers across the Richmond borough saved £40.8million as the result of a government stamp duty holiday, it has emerged. The figure was calculated by London estate agents, Benham and Reeves, who analysed sold price records across nearly 87,000 London property transactions. The total saving across the capital...[READ MORE]
LAND in St Helens is among the sites that will be used to deliver nearly 3,000 new homes in the region as part of the Metro Mayor’s plan to tackle the housing crisis. Fourteen brownfield sites have been identified for almost 3,000 new homes in the region. At...[READ MORE]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homebuilders and other real estate companies are increasingly betting that would-be homebuyers frustrated with a shortage of homes for sale and runaway prices will settle for renting their slice of the American Dream. While individual homeowners and mom-and-pop investors still account for the vast majority...[READ MORE]
Logistics real estate giant Logicor has snapped up a 951,000 sq ft logistics warehouse on a 38.5 acre site in Daventry. The 951,000 sq ft property, bought from a joint venture company managed and co-owned by Oxenwood Real Estate, benefits from good access to the M1. The building is leased to XPO Logistics who use the warehouse to provide national distribution...[READ MORE]
Members of South Ribble Borough Council’s planning committee will be advised by the authority’s planning officers to block the latest bid to develop part of the site known as Pickering’s Farm, which runs between the A582 Penwortham Way and Leyland Road. Concerns over traffic and the completion of South...[READ MORE]
With a multi million pound turnover, and forty one employees to its name, contracting firm Webster Developments has reached ten years in business. The Kinross based business, launched by Daniel Webster in his mum’s spare room when he was just nineteen years old, initially started by fitting kitchens and small extensions throughout Perth & Kinross, before carrying out...[READ MORE]
Matt Damon finally sold his stunning Pacific Palisades mansion for $18million after the Zen-inspired property sat on the market for a year. The 13,508-square-foot property was originally listed for $21million in January, but was slashed to $17.9million months later after offers were slow to come in. [READ MORE]
A CONTROVERSIAL 80-homes scheme near Maidenhead town centre moves closer to fruition despite planning...[READ MORE]
The first tenants have taken up offices in a new business centre at a landmark building in Ilkeston that was transformed at a cost of almost £1m. More businesses are queuing up to join them at Toll Bar House close to the White Lion Square roundabout junction that is a gateway to the town centre. So far more than half of the 27 fully-serviced office...[READ MORE]
So Arrowsmith Investments, employing long-running Manchester architects Leach Rhodes Walker, have come up with a 26-storey apartment building, called Apex Tower, on a tiny plot of land next to the Britons Protection pub in the city centre. The boozer has a couple of centuries and more under its belt and rises to a mighty three stories. The height contrast in the published...[READ MORE]