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25th July 2019
Office space shortage in the south east
Posted by Bonsors
Major towns and cities in the South East including areas around Kingston upon Thames are facing a shortage in office space supply.The situation in the region is stark with development activity in the office market just 840,000 square feet of speculative space delivered to market in 2018, down from 2.4 million in 2017.
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25th July 2019
July sale raises over £8m
Posted by Strettons
There was strong demand for well-priced vacant residential lots with the first lot of the day, a house in Edmonton N9 guided at £250,000+, selling for £323,000 shortly followed by a pair of houses in Bromley, one let, one vacant, guided at £460,000+, selling for £572,000. Adding to this, a house and bungalow in Barnet sold for £690,000 and £461,000, respectively and a house in NW9 for £660,000 off a £500,000+ guide.
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25th July 2019
What Residential Property Job Benefits Should I Ask For?
Accepting a new residential property job is not simply just about the salary, but what additional benefits or “job perks” that job brings. In fact, many millennials are increasingly basing which job to accept on these benefits, and not just salary. At TDM our team of consultants have come across numerous clients with usual, and unusual benefits. Additionally, they regularly come across candidates with minimum requirements for these benefits when searching for their next job on their property career path.
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25th July 2019
Banks set for biggest mortgage lending period since 2007 - Plus all the latest property news
Posted by The Oracle Group
A daily roundup of all the key property news. High street banks agreed more than £50bn of mortgages to homebuyers in the first half of the year, up 10% on the first six months of 2018 and setting up lenders for their biggest year since 2007, according to data from UK Finance. The loans were offered to almost a quarter of a million homebuyers in the first six months, up 6% on the first half of 2018.
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24th July 2019
Should we trust the HBF Survey Results?
What do you think of the long awaited NHBC and HBF Customer ratings? As a customer, purchasing a home do you look at these results and base your purchase on the previous year’s results?
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24th July 2019
House sales held back by Brexit- Plus all the latest property news
Posted by The Oracle Group
A daily roundup of all the key property news. Monthly HMRC statistics have shown that British residential property sales fell to 84,490 in June, over one-sixth down on the same period last year and a 9.6% monthly drop between May and June this year. With the property market apparently taking a “wait-and-see” attitude as Brexit-related uncertainty continues,  
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23rd July 2019
Global Design Solutions- The Savoy Theatre
Built by Richard D’Oyly Carte in 1881, The Savoy Theatre on Londons’ Strand firmly marked its’ place in the history books as the first public building in the world to be entirely illuminated by electric light.In an attempt to address its environmental impact, the theatre wished to replace its existing tungsten house lights with an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly system, which could be retrofitted without impacting the fabric of the historic building.
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23rd July 2019
Pure Town Planning-Approved block of six flats in Broadstone, Dorset
Posted by Pure Town Planning
BCP Council (Formerly Borough of Poole):  Darryl Howells, a director of Pure Town Planning has pioneered another ‘first’ planning permission, this time for a block of six 2-bedroom flats in a street of detached houses in Broadstone, Poole.Our client had attempted several times to intensify the number of residential units on this site.  The last approval (also secured by Darryl) was for a pair of semi-detached houses. 
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23rd July 2019
WATCHING YOUR CREDIBILITY SAIL AWAY...
Not many things in business are as important as having a strong set of terms and conditions. It builds credibility and establishes your business as a professional entity that takes trading seriously. But most importantly, it adds protection for you as a business in your dealings with clients.
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23rd July 2019
Design: The Local Approach
Kit Malthouse earlier this month said that the current generation of houses being built will be “ripped down and bulldozed” as unsuitable, just like the architecture from the 60s and 70s is currently being now.Additionally, he went on to say that 70% of people in the UK would not buy a new house, preferring to buy second-hand homes that are every old, unlike the bad new builds which are “soulless, lifeless and ubiquitous”.
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23rd July 2019
Ending Help to Buy ‘will slow down housing market’- Plus all the latest property news
Posted by The Oracle Group
A daily roundup of all the key property news.The next prime minister has been urged to extend the government’s Help to Buy scheme, following fears that its end will cause a slowdown in the housing market in parts of the country. The scheme has accounted for more than 80% of home sales in the past 18 months in 22 local authorities, according to Cushman & Wakefield,  
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22nd July 2019
Industrial units and warehouses continue to perform
Posted by Bonsors
With the seemingly insatiable demand for online shopping, the demand for warehouse space has risen and developers have followed suit investing in industrial units and warehouses to facilitate storage and distribution requirements. The latest RICS market report for Q12019 sees a continuing decline in retail space, office space remaining stable and an increase in the demand for industrial units and warehouse space.  
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