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As you’ll see from the spread in this edition of WhatHouse? Local, we very recently held our flagship event for the housebuilding industry and handed out our annual WhatHouse? Awards. They are extremely coveted by the industry and if you are in the market for a brand new home, you might well find a plaque or flag proudly displaying the fact that that developer, or development, has won one of these prestigious trophies. This year’s event was the biggest we’ve held in over 30 years. This is a clear sign that the new homes industry is doing very well, which is not just good news for the attendees of our event, but for the country as a whole. Not only are these companies providing the homes that the UK desperately needs, they are also providing a substantial number of jobs. Each new home is estimated to contribute four new jobs to the economy, not just on building sites but further down the supply chain to the companies providing the materials and appliances that each property needs. Another thing that is clear from looking at all the winners (you can download a full judges’ report here www.whathouse.com/whathouse-awards-2014) is that each year, the standards get a little higher. Specifications which were exceptional just a few years ago are now much more commonplace and expectations are rising all the time. Even if you’ve never before considered buying a new home, I urge you to take a close look at our Awards winners and get a feel for the standard of new homes on the market today. You may be pleasantly surprised and impressed by what you see.
Say What? This is the final edition of WhatHouse? Local in 2014 but please don’t think for a minute that we’re putting our feet up and scoffing mince pies until the New Year. The WhatHouse? team will be working hard over the next few weeks to bring you an even better mix of features, interviews and information about your local property market in 2015.
We hope you’ve enjoyed what you’ve seen over the past few months and look forward to our first edition of 2015, which will be out on 13 January. Until then, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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to communications and amenities rather than the middle of nowhere. An easy daily drive to one or more of the many excellent schools locally is also at the top of most people’s lists. Where is the best place for first-time buyers to purchase a home? Wherever they can afford one, as they are competing against cash-rich buy-to-let investors.
What types of properties do you sell? Town, village and rural properties, with our core market being £500,000 to £2.75m. Above
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and we are continuing to agree sales in all price brackets, with the sub-£1m market the most active at the moment. We are looking forward to 2015 - our market seems to be at its most buoyant during the early part of the year and this is likely to be the case again next year, especially with the general election coming in May.
What are the current trends in your area? Most of our best sales this year have been “turn keys” – well-presented properties where the buyer can move straight in and no refurbishment or updating is required. Buyers seem to be looking to move to the better villages and edge of towns where they have easy access
Are there any particular areas in which investors should be looking to buy property? Close to good transport links. Haywards Heath is a major commuter station to both London Bridge and Victoria. In addition, the M23 is only eight miles away and gives direct access to London Gatwick Airport, the M25 and the rest of the national motorway network to the north as well as Brighton and the south coast. What do you expect to see happen in the local market over the next 12 months? We are expecting a surge in activity during the first quarter in 2015, followed by a slight lull in the run up to the general election in May. It all depends on the outcome of the election and the question of Mansion Tax. The housing market, like any other market, does not like uncertainty and this is what the election creates. In the longer term, house prices in the South East are expected to outpace London over the next five years – according to Savills research, there will be an average 26.4% rise in prices by 2019, compared to 10.4% in London and 19.3% nationally. Contact: www.savills.co.uk; 01444 446000
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Awards 2014 At a glittering event at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on Froday 21 November, the best new homes and housebuilders in Britain were named at the WhatHouse? Awards 2014, the most prestigious awards in the industry. The 33rd WhatHouse? Awards was the biggest-ever in its history, with some 1,650 senior figures gathered in the Great Room of the five-star venue. Actor and comedian Rob Brydon presented awards in 20 categories before announcing this year’s Housebuilder of the Year - City & Country Group. The Essex-based developer also won Gold for Best Medium Housebuilder and Best Renovation, as well as a Bronze for Best Partnership Scheme. Other multiple winners included London Square, Mar City, Millgate, Octagon, Barratt Homes, Berkeley and Grainger plc. Rupert Bates, editorial director of WhatHouse?, hailed the quality of this year’s entries and winners. “This is what the best housebuilders, large and small, and their supply chains, can deliver. This is what the industry can achieve with passion and professionalism. There were a record number of entries to this year’s Awards. On the basis that nobody enters unless they believe they have a chance of winning, then every single entrant has illustrated huge pride in what has been built.”
The winners in full Housebuilder of the Year City & Country Group Best Large Housebuilder sponsored by Zoopla Property Group Gold: Redrow Silver: Barratt Bronze: Berkeley Best Medium Housebuilder sponsored by Roca Gold: City & Country Group Silver (joint): CALA Homes Mar City Homes Bronze (joint): Mount Anvil Weston Homes Best Small Housebuilder sponsored by Moneypenny Gold: Stone Homes Silver: Antler Homes Bronze (joint): London Square Octagon Sustainable Developer of the Year sponsored by Show House Gold: Linden Homes Housing Association of the Year sponsored by Local World Gold: Affinity Sutton Silver: Sovereign Housing Association Bronze (joint): L&Q Wulvern Best Starter Home sponsored by Aldermore Gold (joint): Crest Nicholson, Park Central, Birmingham Berkeley, Victory Pier, Gillingham, Kent Silver: Lovell, Bryn Celyn, Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales Bronze (joint): Network Living, Langhorne Place, Dollis Hill, London, NW2 L&Q, Capworth Court, Leyton, London, E10 Best House sponsored by Premier Guarantee Gold: London Square, ‘The Pembridge’, London Square Fulham, London, SW6 Silver (joint): Latis Homes, Greenfield Place, Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 Hill, Octavo Mews, West Kensington, London, W6 Bronze (joint): City Legacy Consortium, Cruden Homes, Mactaggart & Mickel Homes, CCG,
This year’s WhatHouse? Awards Gala Luncheon, which took place on Friday 21 November at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane, was the biggest in its 33-year history, with 1,650 guests attending. Not only that, but there were a record number of entries, too, and the standard gets higher and higher every year. This year, there
Malcolm Group and Glasgow City Council, ‘The Hibiscus’, The Athletes’ Village, Dalmarnock, Glasgow Altin Homes, Sylvan Bint, Timperley, Cheshire Best Apartment Scheme sponsored by Warwick Estates Gold: Grainger plc, Macaulay Walk, Clapham, London, SW4 Silver (joint): United House, Paynes & Borthwick, West Greenwich, London, SE8 Catalyst by Design, Portobello Square, North Kensington, London, W10 Bronze: Millgate Homes, Westbrook House, Ascot, Berkshire Best Luxury House sponsored by Laufen Gold: Consero London, ‘Furzecroft’, St George’s Hill, Weybridge, Surrey Silver: Octagon, ‘Crossacres’, Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water, Surrey Bronze: Huntsmere, ‘Ambergates’, Alderley Edge, Cheshire Best Renovation sponsored by Zoopla Property Group Gold: City & Country, Marquess Villas, Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex Silver: Thomas Homes, Fair Mile at Cholsey Meadows, Cholsey, Oxfordshire Bronze: Linden Homes, Ashlar Court, Hammersmith, London, W6 Best Development sponsored by spicerhaart Land and New Homes Gold: Hill, The Avenue, Saffron Walden, Essex Silver: St Edward, Stanmore Place, London HA7 Bronze (joint): Grainger plc, Macaulay Walk, Clapham, London, SW4 Countryside, Abode, Great Kneighton, Cambridge Best Partnership Scheme sponsored by Virgin Media Gold: Solum Regeneration, Walthamstow Central Station, London, E17 Silver: Kier Partnership Homes, Manor Kingsway, Derby Bronze (joint): Barratt Homes, City & Country and Banner Homes (CALA Homes), Bentley Priory, Stanmore, London, HA7 Barratt London and Sainsbury’s, Fulham Riverside, London, SW6
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were winners from all over the UK, from Bristol to Edinburgh via South Wales, Derby, Cambridge, Cheshire and Northumberland. Here’s the full list of this year’s Award winners.
Best Luxury Development sponsored by Nolte Kitchens Gold: Millgate Homes, Holland Place, Sunninghill, Berkshire Silver: UNStudio, Canaletto, Islington, London, EC1V Bronze (joint): Octagon, Long Walk Villas, Windsor, Berkshire Pennyfarthing Homes, Nautica, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire Best Mixed-Use Development sponsored by Nicholls & Clarke Gold: Quartermile, Quartermile, Edinburgh Silver: Grainger plc, Macaulay Walk, Clapham, London, SW4 Bronze: Kier Partnership Homes, The Parade, Manor Kingsway, Derby Best Sustainable Development sponsored by Powerday Gold: Barratt, Hanham Hall, Hanham, Bristol Silver: Get Living London, East Village, Stratford, London, E20 Bronze: Morris Homes, Vista, Peterborough Best Retirement Development sponsored by Moving Made Easy Gold: Audley Retirement, Binswood, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshireshire Silver (joint): Larkfleet Homes and Keystone Developments, The Croft, Bourne, Lincolnshire Retirement Villages Group, Charters Village, East Grinstead, West Sussex Bronze (joint): Church Retirement Living, Steeple Lodge, Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands McCarthy & Stone, Lady Susan Court and Emma Court, Basingstoke, Hampshire Best Brownfield Development sponsored by Zoopla Property Group Gold (joint): CALA, Albert Dock, Leith, Edinburgh Grainger plc, Macaulay Walk, Clapham, London, SW4 Silver (joint): Mar City, Green Point, Colindale, London, NW9 United House, Paynes & Borthwick, Deptford, London, SE8 Bronze: London Square, London Square Fulham, London, SW6
Best Interior Design sponsored by Beko Gold: Millgate Homes, Chart Ridge, Oxted, Surrey Silver: Countryside, Plot 24, Aura, Great Kneighton, Cambridge Bronze (joint): Berkeley Homes, Maltby House, Meridian Gate, Kidbrooke Village, Greenwich, London, SE3 London Square, London Square Fulham, London, SW6 Best Exterior Design sponsored by Alexander James Interiors Gold: Barratt Homes, Hanham Hall, Bristol Silver (joint): Redrow, Kingston Riverside, Kingston, London, KT2 Hill, The Avenue, Saffron Walden, Essex Bronze: Antler Homes, Fairwater, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire Best Landscape Design sponsored by TCL Gold (joint): Crest Nicholson, Bath Riverside, Bath St Edwards, Stanmore Place, Harrow, London, HA7 Silver: Inland Homes, Drayton Garden Village, West Drayton, London, UB7 Bronze (joint): Richstone Properties, The Pembroke, East Sheen, London, SW14 Beechcroft, Frenchlands Gate, East Horsley, Surrey
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Zero-carbon homes Best Exterior Design Gold and Best Sustainable Development Gold – Hanham Hall, Bristol from Barratt Homes
Look to the future now Canaletto, Islington from UNStudio
London Square Fulham from London Square
Hanham Hall has already won many awards and is a landmark development from Barratt, the first in England to achieve the 2016 zerocarbon standard. The WhatHouse? judges say: “The housebuilding industry needs exemplar schemes like Hanham Hall to act as a marker and knowledge base to drive sustainable understanding. Barratt Homes should be applauded for pushing the boundaries and setting a benchmark for sustainable living.”
Using brownfield sites Best Brownfield Development Bronze – London Square Fulham from London Square
Macaulay Walk, Clapham from Grainger plc
Aura, Great Kneighton from Countryside
While there is pressure to build the houses we need on Green Belt and undeveloped greenfield land, London Square demonstrates how to revive a former industrial trading estate. The WhatHouse? judges say: “The result is a real sense of place and tranquillity and…the underground car park a technical triumph. The materials are subtle, soft and sophisticated; the layouts lifestyle conscious. This is where green oasis meets London life.”
Street-scene landscaping Best Mixed-Use Development Bronze – The Parade, Manor Kingsway, Derby from Kier Partnership Homes The best developers are utilising a range of external designs and finishes to their mix of houses as well as creating beautiful street scenes with a bold choice of materials and landscaping. The WhatHouse? judges say: “The Parade illustrates this principle with a layout that, while integrating the car, provides a safe and attractive streetscape in which the pedestrian and cyclist have clear priority without the need for intrusive signage or the curse of speed bumps, through its sophisticated detailing use of materials and layout.”
The death of the radiator? Best Apartment Scheme Gold – Macaulay Walk, Clapham from Grainger plc
The Parade, Manor Kingsway, Derby from Kier Partnership Homes
point are here. It is also admirable that the same specification from Assael Architecture and interior specialists MMM applies across the scale, from a studio apartment to a topend penthouse.”
Selling the lifestyle Underfloor heating used to be the preserve of high-end properties, but it’s now more prevalent in developments aimed at a more modest budget, as Grainger’s multi-award winning scheme shows. The WhatHouse? judges say: “All the mod cons that you’d find included at a higher price
Best Luxury Development Silver – Canaletto, Islington from UNStudio
Hanham Hall, Bristol from Barratt Homes
The WhatHouse? judges say: “All residents have access to a 24-hour concierge, gym, pool, cinema room, games room and spa, with a private bar/dining club complete with landscaped terrace on the 24th floor. Canaletto successfully combines substance with style and sets an extremely high standard for its neighbours to match.”
Doubling up UNStudio’s futuristic tower on London’s City Road exemplifies the idea of selling more than just a property, with a host of exclusive facilities for the use of residents and their guests.
Best Interior Design Silver – Plot24, Aura, Great Kneighton from Countryside The use of double-height rooms and
mezzanines is an increasingly popular way to add a ‘wow’ factor to family homes as well as luxury apartments, used to great effect in this show home by Countryside. The WhatHouse? judges say: “This is another housebuilder that has benefited from selecting a great firm of architects and interior designers. The master bedroom has a living room and the kitchen has a gallery – what more do you want from a house? Suna Interiors has…created a Mayfair-style home in Cambridge.” Find out more about each WhatHouse? Awards winner at www.whathouse.com
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higher the price of the property, the more likely you are to be gazumped. Of those buyers who had been previously gazumped, 27% were purchasing properties priced in excess of £500,000. The figure drops to 25% for properties valued between £200,000 and £500,000 and 19% for properties under £200,000. Russell Quirk, chief executive of eMoov.co.uk, comments: “Unfortunately, gazumping is one of those things in the current structure of property purchasing. There are lots of buyers who have displayed an honest interest in a property only to be let down by owners with pound signs in their eyes, often encouraged by estate agents looking to increase their fee percentages.” A world without gazumping wouldn’t necessarily put an end to unethical behaviour in the property market, as Quirk explains: “If markets cool off too much, we could see gazundering coming back in. This is a tactic in areas with little demand where the buyer calls up just before the exchange of contracts and demands to pay less.”
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ith new-build homes in Brighton & Hove a rarity, house-hunters with their hearts set on a brand new home need to look a little further afield. The Hillreed Homes name is well known in Sussex and the company has been constructing its distinctive, vernacular properties in sought-after locations along the South Downs for many years. Sycamore Gardens in Hurstpierpoint provides the latest opportunity for homebuyers to secure one of these properties, but as this boutique development only comprises six three-bedroom, semidetached properties, it would seem likely that they are not going to be on the market very long. The housebuilder has appointed Burgess Hill-based agent Connells to sell this development on its behalf. Stephen Bushell, manager at Connells, says: “The property market in 2013 and 2014 has been exceptional, greatly helped by the government’s Help to Buy Scheme. We are therefore delighted to have been instructed to sell six brand new houses by award-winning developer, Hillreed Homes, on the outskirts of the pretty village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, where we feel sure there will be a strong demand.” One house at the development has already been reserved. Prices for the remaining
New to market: Sycamore Gardens, Hurstpierpoint homes currently range from £380,000 to £419,940 and all of them benefit from flooring throughout, a turfed rear garden and £500 towards legal fees. In addition, specific plots have other special offers on them, the details of which can be discussed with the selling agent. Sycamore Gardens is set in a quiet cul de
these homes with a deposit of as little as 5%. Alternatively, existing homeowners can use Hillreed’s Home Change initiative, where the developer assists the selling process of the buyer’s old home by dealing with a local estate agent on the buyer’s behalf, with no fees payable. Finally, Part Exchange is available, subject to certain criteria. Bushell adds: “We sold a scheme by this well-respected developer earlier in the year in Burgess Hill and the response we received from eager buyers was exceptional, selling out in a matter of weeks. We anticipate a similar demand for their latest build, due to the calibre of the property, its unique location and boutique-sized site.”
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Sussex & Surrey Lots - Tuesday, 16 December at the The Hilton Brighton Metropole - commencing 11am
Flat with far reaching views Guide: £180-190,000 epc:e
Guides are provided as an indication of each Seller’s minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for and may change at any time prior to Auction. Unless stated otherwise, each Lot will be offered subject to a reserve (a figure below which the Auctioneer cannot sell the Lot during the Auction). We expect the reserve will be set within the guide range or no more than 10% above a single figure guide. Please check our website regularly at cliveemson.co.uk, or call 01273 571853, in order to stay fully informed.
Period cottage Guide: £725,000-plus epc:g
Plot with Planning Permission Guide: £110-120,000
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EASTBOURNE
Guide: £50-55,000 epc:tbc
ST LEONARDS
NEWHAVEN
Former off licence for occupation or investment
EASTBOURNE
Houseboat for occupation Guide: £70-80,000
ALFRISTON
Terrace in need of renovation Guide: £175-180,000 epc:tbc
ST LEONARDS
PETWORTH
SHOREHAM
WORTHING
A range of Sussex & Surrey Lots including:-
Detached property with potential Guide: £460-480,000 epc:tbc
Flat in need of improvement Guide: £60-65,000 epc:d
House for improvement Guide: £150,000-Plus epc:f
LAND & PROPERTY AUCTIONEERS
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LAND & PROPERTY AUCTIONEERS
Auction Stations!
As we prepare for our last auction of the year it has always been a tradition at
Regulations for conversion back into a single dwelling.
this time to reflect on the previous years results. 2014 has proven to us all that confidence is returning to the market faster than any of us could have hoped for and, with one auction remaining, we have already achieved well over £20,000,000 in sales with a success rate of just over 88% in Sussex and Surrey alone. I believe that the reason for this is not only the quality of the lots but also the growing popularity of property auctions as a valid way to buy and sell all kinds of properties, not just unusual or problematic ones. Until recently the auction room has long been considered a place where only property professionals and dealers dared to go. With property auctions becoming a firm fixture
Sam Kinloch, Emma Attrell & James Emson
on television with programs such as ‘Homes under the Hammer’ we are all becoming more aware of the many benefits of buying and selling at auction. Our December catalogue offers the usual eclectic mix of residential and commercial investments, building sites, vacant units and fixer uppers. We have a fabulous five bedroom detached cottage and barn conversion set within grounds extending to 1.1 hectares (2.8 Acres) with views over the Cuckmere Valley situated on the outskirts of the popular village of Alfriston. We also have a substantial detached property in The Goffs, Eastbourne Old Town offering enormous potential for redevelopment which has already been granted Outline Planning Permission and Building
Looking away from Sussex we have a block of three commercial units in Central Road, Worcester Park which are situated on a busy thoroughfare adjacent to Worchester Park Railway Station. For those looking for residential investments we have on offer a two bedroom maisonette in Hastings producing £5,720 per annum along with a three bedroom ground floor flat in Petworth with stunning views over open farm land. As always we look forward to meeting you all at the many viewing dates we have arranged and will be delighted to answer any question you may have with regards to buying or selling at auction.
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