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House Price Inflation Projections 2019
There is little variance in national annual house price inflation forecasts from different agencies at this early stage in this difficult unpredictable year ahead . Lets see how accurate they are at end of 2019! As ever 'UK house price...
Tick list when selling potential development Land
When considering selling land there are basic points which should be addressed and established. These can be summarised under the mnemonic I use which is GRAMSTOP. G - Ground conditions. Brownfield or green field ?Are there any old mining works...
New retirement village momentum in UK
A recent ARCO report highlighted that only 0.5% of the UK population live in a private retirement village highlights the huge potential for the nascent sector here in the UK when you look at the figures for other developed countries - see below....
Land requirements for retirement housing Autumn 2017
We are active in land acquisition for retirement village operator clients. Most potential sites may have Planning issues but 'this comes with the territory' . Predominantly in England, and from 2 acres upwards but don't rule out...
Current projects Summer 2017
We've been working on acquiring sites north and south of the Border since our last update. It's been a productive 1st half of the year with 5 sites we hope about to come good in the last quarter. Similar to waiting for a...
Retirement Village requirement Update Nov 2016
We require land circa 10 acres minimum for retirement village in the southeast of England or on south coast or in southwest. We require a fairly high basic selling price per foot to facilitate development therefore a sought...
UK’s Housing Crisis and Land Banking
Housing completion figures make depressing reading . Housing completions are down dramatically from several decades ago as also are the building of Council Houses. The politicians seem to blame the builders in part for holding on to land or land...
Current project – Land Re-designated from Green Belt – some realistic Planning Gain
One of our current projects is a land holding which was an anomaly in the greenbelt – The clients land was crazily designated Greenbelt over a decade ago. We coordinated the promotion of the site through the Planning process on behalf of the...
Promotion Agreements
Promotion Agreements (PA) v Traditional Option Contracts (TOC) Both are legally binding contracts but differ in several ways. PAs will produce a bidding situation once a development zoning is achieved in the Local Development Plan and this will produce a land...