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Eco & Healthy Living In River Crescent Development

River Crescent Development Offers Eco & Healthy Living

Overlooking the river Trent in Nottingham, The ‘River Crescent’ development comprises 146 apartments, providing the very best in eco and healthy living, plus high level security.

Built in a stunning location with extraordinary facilities and elegantly designed luxury apartments, this development has much to offer those looking to improve their carbon footprint and live a healthier lifestyle:

The development has wind turbines mounted on its stair towers, which feed electricity into the common areas, helping to keep energy costs at a minimum.

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To Sell Your Home Join The UK’s Home Swap Website

Keen to Sell Your Home? Join The UK’s Home Swap Website

The average number of transactions per surveyor (over the last three months) is now at 12.7, according to the RICS survey published last week; the lowest figure since the survey began.

However, help is at hand for the housing market, with the launch of HomeSwapper4Sale.co.uk.

A UK first for the private market, HomeSwapper4Sale.co.uk is a service that matches people looking to sell their homes, with those who want what they have to offer and vice-versa. Launched in August 2008 the website already has millions of pounds of property registered and matches for members are sent out daily.

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British Homeowners Lose £300 Billion Since January

British Homeowners Lose £300 Billion Since January

New figures just released from Zoopla.co.uk, show that the average value of homes in Britain has been falling by on average £43.84 every day since the beginning of the year, wiping a staggering £300 billion (£1.25 billion per day) in value day off the housing market since January 1st.

As the property market continues to battle against the fallout from the global credit crunch, the figures show that property values in England have fallen most, down £11,343 since the beginning of the year or £46.49 per day on average.

Values in Wales dropped by an average of £10,742 or £44.02 per day since January.

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The Zoopla Advantage In UK Property Valuation

Zoopla Provides An Advantage In Property Valuation

Zoopla.co.uk is a new property valuation website that empowers users with free information and tools, to help them make better-informed property decisions.

The key aim of Zoopla is to use the Internet to transform the property market, from simple listings to a social network – to create a totally transparent property market, where people come to buy or sell a home.

The website combines all of the freely available property details (like Land Registry, previous sale prices, local crime and school info, etc) with a social network element that allows homeowners to input individual details of their home, to find the most accurate valuation price possible.

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The Vale – Chelsea, London For Sale Through Hamptons

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Standing on a beautiful quiet Chelsea street, situated close to the King’s and Fulham Roads; The Vale is a spacious end of terrace, period residence, with a large landscaped garden.

This home has been decorated in a fantastically eclectic style, using influences from across the world and is currently for sale through Hamptons International.

The Vale is approximately 7,881 sq ft and is arranged over four floors:

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The Cotswold Lower Mill Estate Wins Two Awards

The Cotswold Lower Mill Estate Wins Two Awards

Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswolds, was set up to introduce imaginative, modernist architecture into a rural setting, to protect and enhance the natural environment, to engineer a harmony between residents and wildlife, and to protect the local and wider ecology.

The project’s success in achieving these objectives has been acknowledged with two awards in the Daily Telegraph Your New Homes Awards in March, for Best Architectural Innovation and Best Waterside Development.

Richard Reid and his team of architects have set a new agenda for others to follow by designing a series of contemporary houses, in a landscape setting that are both contemporary and highly inspirational.

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Swedish House Company’s Superbly Constructed Homes

Swedish House Company’s Superbly Constructed Homes

The timber that lies at the heart of a Swedish House Company property, comes from pine trees that grow very slowly, straight and true in the Dalarna Forests in Sweden.

In the process they produce uniquely dense, close-grained timber that can’t be beaten for structural strength; ideal for the framework for a house – a substantial, strong and stable structure.

This timber also provides the beauty of natural wood for staircases, beams, interior doors, window frames and other visible surfaces.

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Joanne Chooses A Winner With A Barratt iPad

Joanne Milne At Home In Her Barratt iPad

When it came to looking for her first home, Joanne Milne was just one more struggling first-time buyer trying to get her foot on the property ladder.

Then she discovered Barratt’s pioneering iPad apartments at Farrier’s Park, Stockton.

“I loved the iPad design and the fact that everything was finished to a really high specification, which was lacking in other properties I considered,” said Joanne.”

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Barratt Launches iPad Homes Around The UK

Barrat Launches iPad Homes To Help First Time Buyers

Barratt has developed the new Barratt iPad Home, specifically to be more affordable for increasing numbers of first-time buyers around the UK, struggling to achieve their first step on the home ownership ladder.

The design philosophy was to produce highly affordable accommodation, which is still classy, ergonomic and manageable, within attractive elevations.

The accommodation had to be innovative with creative use of space to appeal to a variety of buyers; primarily first-time buyers, but also parents funding children at college, and single people.

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The Law Society’s Online Home Information Pack

The Law Societys Online Home Information Pack

Launched to coincide with the expansion of the Government’s HIP scheme to include 3-bedroom properties, The Law Society have developed an online Home Information Pack to ensure solicitors are able to offer a quality, simple and effective HIP solution to estate agents and home sellers.

In only five days since its launch, the new Law Society Home Information Pack bureau service attracted almost 600 enquiries and notched up its first orders for 75 starter packs.

The Professional Solution – with the amount of legal content contained in a HIP, solicitors are best placed to prepare them.

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