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![Four new acquisitions for 'revolutionary' property developer](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/EnglandMap-400x310.png)
A property developer which describes itself as 'revolutionary' has increased its portfolio through the acquisition of four new sites located in Ipswich,...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Why freeholders should talk to leaseholders about rooftop extensions](/upload/images/library/Summer-Rooftops-400x310.jpg)
The American writer Mark Twain’s famously observed ‘Buy land, they’re not making it anymore’. However, property investors are now finding there...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Avoiding 5 common mistakes made by small-scale property developers](/upload/images/library/HousingMarket2020-400x310.jpg)
Small-scale property development is entering a phase full of fantastic opportunities. A huge housing shortage, an increase in permitted development rights,...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight: What's the best property development strategy?](/upload/images/library/Investment(2)-400x310-min.jpeg)
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, 'what's the best property development strategy?'. Given that property development ranges...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Planning reform the biggest obstacle for resi development – claim](/upload/images/library/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
The existing planning system is the biggest obstacle to residential development, according to national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH). Its annual...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Commercial to resi – what are the advantages of office-to-resi conversions?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingHelp-400x310.jpg)
In this opinion piece, Reece Mennie from HJ Collection outlines the main benefits of office-to-residential conversions – which is set to...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Industrial to residential conversions: new book sets out how to make a profit](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BusinessWomen2-695x395-min.jpeg)
An updated and revised book offering ‘the essential guide’ to converting industrial buildings for profit has been released by property experts Ian...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – is office/retail to resi now more important than ever?](/upload/images/Locations/EmptyHighStreet400x310.jpg)
One of the biggest trends during the pandemic from a property development point of view has been a dramatic increase in...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![The £800bn question: how resi developers can save the high street](/upload/images/Locations/EmptyHighStreet400x310.jpg)
In 2018, the total value of commercial property in the UK sat at over £880 billion, when the office market was at...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – planning changes risk “avalanche of unacceptable housing”](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Sad-Tenants-Evicted-400x310.jpg)
New planning changes which came into effect this month have been criticised by a renting campaigner. Ajay Jagota, the founder of...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how to pick the right property development project](/img/default/pit.png)
A small project in property development industry terms can be quite literally life-changing from a personal income point of view. But...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – will Covid make airspace development more or less likely?](/img/default/pit.png)
One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![From landlord to landlord-developer - the top investment strategy?](/img/default/pit.png)
Is property investment still a good long-term strategy, or has the taxation and regulatory reforms over the past five years made...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Looking ahead – towns and city centres in a post-Covid world](/img/default/pit.png)
Covid-19 has had a radical impact across almost every aspect of society, and it is no different when it comes to...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Can the high street be saved by residential redevelopment?](/img/default/pit.png)
Like many other things, the high street developed over time as small residential settlements became towns, with more people coming to...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Could 2021 be the year of the small indie developer?](/img/default/pit.png)
Over the last 10 months, we have seen a raft of changes to the planning rules in England. This has been...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development roundup – all-star shortlist for Thamesmead regeneration](/img/default/pit.png)
A ‘diverse and innovative’ group of architects and designers, with UK and international expertise, have made the shortlist to potentially become...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development roundup – Staines, Digbeth, London and Worthing](/img/default/pit.png)
In this bumper development roundup - the final one of the year - we explore the planned creation of new developments and...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Building update: SME developers want to build more; ecolodge opens in Italy](/img/default/pit.png)
Research by TrustedLand and LandTech has revealed that more than half of the UK’s small and mid-sized property developers expect to...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Building onwards and upwards - what do investors need to know?](/img/default/pit.png)
With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Planting seeds - what does the planning system overhaul involve?](/img/default/pit.png)
We have seen over the past few months a real government impetus to regain lost ground, since the economic effects of...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Investors – should you consider Hounslow?](/img/default/pit.png)
It’s strategically located for easy access to London Heathrow Terminals, is close to a number of the stations on the incoming...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Doing it differently – private developer transforms affordable housing](/img/default/pit.png)
Affordable housing is very often a thorny bone of contention. Arbitrary government targets are regularly missed and this part of the...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – should investors be building upwards?](/img/default/pit.png)
In his ‘Build, Build, Build’ speech in Dudley last month, Boris Johnson set out a number of radical planning reforms. This...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top tips - increasing the value of your home with a loft conversion](/img/default/pit.png)
Neglecting your loft is easily done, with many people simply using it as a storage spot for bits and bobs that...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shop conversions ‘stubbornly low’ despite growing retail vacancy rates](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of retail properties approved for conversions to residential property has fallen 17% in the last year, from 453 in...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Birmingham’s investment boom - sold-out Digbeth scheme starts build](/img/default/pit.png)
A new-build residential development near Birmingham city centre that sold out before contractors had even started work on site has now...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Allsop’s March auction attracts investors eager for London lots](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop recorded a strong result at its March residential sale raising £60 million and achieving a success rate of 73%. Held at...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Allsop releases bumper March catalogue](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop’s next residential auction will see more than 275 lots auctioned, 50 more lots than its March 2017 sale. Allsop’s bumper March...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Allsop achieves record sale at its September auction](/img/default/pit.png)
Against a backdrop of weak post-summer auction results elsewhere in the UK, Allsop raised £71.3m and topped its residential September sales...
21 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Allsop releases September residential auction catalogue](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop’s upcoming residential auction will see 229 lots auctioned at The Cumberland Hotel on Great Cumberland Place on September 14. Following a...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![‘Exciting’ auction catalogue of over 330 lots ‘provide opportunity for investors’](/img/default/pit.png)
More than 330 residential properties will go under the hammer in central London next week, including several sites with permitted development...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rural land prices look set to fall](/img/default/pit.png)
Growing uncertainty over Brexit and insecurities regarding future subsidies, as well as low commodity prices, continues to drive down demand for...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Allsop raise £62.8m at first residential auction of the year](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop raised £62.8m at its first residential auction of 2017, selling 80% of the 247 lots on offer. A high number of...
23 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Confidence in housing market ‘knocked’ by aggressive taxation and Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
Confidence in the UK housing market has weakened in recent months amid economic uncertainty, together with pressure on householders’ finances from...
06 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![High demand for ‘sensibly priced’ properties](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop continued to demonstrate market buoyancy last week posting a £56m total from its September residential auction sale, thanks to what...
27 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mayor of London pledges to restrict office-to-resi conversions](/img/default/pit.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan has vowed to make it significantly harder for property investors to convert small office spaces to residential...