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Boxing Day boom for property listings - Experts reveal how to make your home stand out this winter

The festive season isn't just about mince pies and mistletoe – it's also one of the hottest moments of the year for home movers, with the number of new properties listed for sale on Boxing Day up 26% year on year. With even more sellers expected to join the Boxing Day boom this year, standing out from the crowd is about more than just good photography – it is about how a home feels during those cold,...

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Own Your Own Windsor "Castle"

IT may not quite be on the scale of its royal namesake, but the five-bedroom Windsor is the ideal choice for those looking to lay their crown in a new home in Wrea Green. The Windsor is among the properties available from Elan Homes in the sought-after Lancashire village and as the nation prepares to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the homebuilder is offering a right royal choice of...

Lay Your Crown In A New Home At Balmoral Gardens In Southport

FEATURING a right royal choice of new homes, it’s no surprise Balmoral Gardens in Southport is proving popular, While the Balmoral Estate is the Royal Family’s holiday home, buyers at the namesake Elan Homes development can enjoy the holiday lifestyle all year round.

There’s even the chance to receive a deposit contribution of £5,000 to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee....

Former apprentice Shaun takes the reins at Redrow as Keith bows out after 38 years

FORMER Redrow Lancashire apprentice Shaun Phoenix has been appointed head of construction for the homebuilder as Keith Collard retires as construction director after almost four decades.

Shaun, 44, started life at Redrow’s Chorley-based Lancashire division as an apprentice joiner aged 16. His rise to the top has seen him take on the roles of site manager, project manager and area...

Home Sellers achieving asking price in just one area

The latest data release from estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that the average home seller achieved 97.9% of asking price last year, with just one area of the market seeing buyers pay above and beyond the original listing price.

GetAgent pulls data from all of the major property listing portals which are...

Rising temperatures means rising pongs within the home!

Rising temperatures means rising pongs!

As the temperature rises so do pongs in the home.
Odour causing bacteria loves the heat.
Independent study by Aroma Care Solutions finds the smelliest objects and places in the home

As the temperature rises so do pongs in the home, making the great outdoors where you want to be when the sun shines as the great...

Work Starting On New Homes in Langland

CONSTRUCTION of 31 new homes in Langland is due to start this July, Edenstone Homes has confirmed.

Work commencing will follow the formal acquisition of the 3.2 acre site on Higher Lane, with homes due to be released for sale around the same time.

Gareth Watts, of the Residential Development division of property consultancy Knight Frank, acted for the vendor.

The...

Couple Enjoy Retirement in a Bungalow in Morriston

WHEN retiree Vicky Jones was looking for a new, more peaceful, home, a bungalow was the last thing on her mind.

But when she and husband Philip saw the Budleigh bungalow show home on the first phase of the award-winning Parc Ceirw Garden Village in Morriston, she knew she had to have it.

Vicky, a former care home team leader, says: “I knew from the minute I saw it, it was my...

Kingswood Makes A Song And Dance About Hospice House Giveaway

FORGET whistling while they work – the team at Kingswood Homes are singing while they work.

They’ve even rewritten the Madness classic Our House, recorded it in a music studio and had a video filmed and edited. It’s all for a good cause – raising awareness of the Great Big House Giveaway in aid of Derian House Children’s Hospice.

Managing director Paul Jones said: “We were...

Purchase a London pad with a pal at Leaside Lock

With the capital’s property prices continuing to rise, a recent survey has found that more than one third of buyers would consider purchasing a property with a friend.* Whether it’s to split the mortgage and household costs, or for the social benefits of sharing a space, the demand for part owning a home with a friend is becoming a popular route onto the property ladder.

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Fuel and energy costs outpace house price growth

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events , has revealed that while house prices continue to climb to record highs, homebuyers struggling to save are being hit hardest by the increase in household living costs, when it comes to the annual change of both energy and fuel.

House prices continue to climb and the latest Land Registry data on sold prices shows they’ve...

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