Musings of a Brighton Buyers Agent

Clive Emson is having an auction next week with some interesting development opportunities in Kent.  

In Gravesend there is a detached rent office in Dickens Road/Rose Avenue Junction.  With a  guide price of £18-£20K, I expect there will be considerable interest.   In a residential area it may be possible to obtain permission for housing.  Terraced housing in the area are likely to fetch between £120,000 and £150,000, taking into account a drop of 15% since last year.  If wholly residential development is not permitted, a live/work unit  may provide a suitable compromise.  The Ebbsfleet express domestic service  to London King€™s Cross opens in November so now is the time to capitalise on weaker prices along the East Kent corridor.

Another interesting site is a 1 acre site, former a waterworks plant, at Halden Lane, Rolvenden with a guide price of £80-£100,000.  Property in the village does not change hands often and achieves a good price partly because it is a stones throw from Cranbrook Grammar School, a co-ed school with 750 pupils, a boarding house and a long and distinguished history.  The process of gaining planning permission may be prolonged and require skillful negotiation and an exciting design but it has good access , some services and is close to the village as well as being secluded. 

Finally there is a house and attached shop and garage in the High Street, Ramsgate with a guide of £170-£180K but planning permission for a four storey building was been granted in 2006.  The price may appear high but families are now beginning to consider the coastal regions of Kent  as a desirable option, in view of the plethora of good grammar schools in the area. 

The area is becoming busier for Buyers Agents like us as a sharp rise in London commuters is predicted, as the fast services through Ebbsfleet become a reality at last.

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Silicon Valley in East Anglia?

Musings of a Cambridge Property Search Agent

Entrepreneurs are exploring an ambitious plan to improve rail transport between Cambridge and Norwich and create a superior broadband infrastructure with a view to making East Anglia the new Silicon Valley.  While this idea is in its infancy, there are ambitious plans to increase housing in the region but as yet no similar plans for transport.  Mr Freeman, founder of Cambridge biotechnology consultants, 4D Biomedical, described the region as having €˜woeful road, rail and broadband links€™.   Cambridge is already a centre for clean-tech and biomedical development and despite a huge building boom in recent years, property prices are holding up better than expected.

Property Search agents and property anoraks like us will continue to watch with interest.

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Musings of a London Property Search Agent

The latest statistical release from the Land Registry shows that London house prices rose 0.79% in May which equates to an increase in value of £2,808 - barely enough to cover legal fees on a purchase and sale.

Nine months on from the beginning of the credit crunch, most would-be vendors are refusing to budge on price, which means house prices in the capital are basically flat. Naturally some boroughs are faring better than others. Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, the latter which includes Belgravia and Mayfair, have seen increases in average house prices of 8.13% and 9.48% respectively since the beginning of the Credit Crunch according to the Land Registry Data. Other boroughs faring well include Hackney, where prices have increased by an equally impressive 8.44%.

Average London house prices have increased 1.87% overall and homeowners in the South East are experiencing even flatter prices with an increase of 0.11% since September last year.  Now is the time to make the move just call this London Property Search Agent to get the right house at the best price.

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