Month: January 2016

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This New Year brings an amazing opportunity to buy a brand new home in sought after Fair Oak: Linden Homes is launching its eagerly anticipated development Crowdhill Green.

This development will eventually consist of two, three, four and five bedroom homes. Presently, the homes exist only in the plans, so as a prospective buyer, you can have some input when it comes to the finish of the home.

Tina Chalk, the Linden Homes’ marketing manager says that many people are nervous about buying a new home before it has been built – but points out that it can offer lots of benefits:

“Buying off-plan can feel like a leap of faith, but there are many advantages in choosing and reserving your plot early: To start with, if you are early enough, you have the pick of the plots. The sales executives can show you all the plans, so you get a good idea of the space and layout of the finished home.

“Once you’ve chosen your plot, you have some input into how your house will look. You can decide some of the finishes: You can choose items like bathroom tiles, kitchen worktops and flooring.”

Also to help people get moving there are a number of schemes available including the Government Help to Buy scheme and Linden Homes’ tailored Part Exchange scheme to remove the burden of selling your existing property.

To find out more about Crowdhill Green at Fair Oak visit the website: www.lindenhomes.co.uk  or call 02380 082 669 for more details.…

New Year, New Start and Connells Lettings team at Shirley Road are going from strength to strength and really excited about pushing the business forward in 2016.

“2015 was a great year for us with a record number of lets and also on a personal level as individuals” said Andrew Evans Branch Manager.

The Shirley Lettings Office was opened as a “Cold Start” office in April 2014 and employed a young lady by the name of Bethany Hudson on a trainee basis to learn about the business as she was keen to embark on a career within the Letting industry.

Her career has flourished and has won two promotions, in 2015 to became a fully fledged Negotiator and at the start of this year received a second promotion to Senior Negotiator.

Her reward and a thank you for her efforts, Bethany has won a very coveted award within Connells Group as “Lettings Negotiator of the Year” beating over 200 other negotiators to the title throughout the group and winning a 5 star all expenses trip to Dubai.

This has rocketed the branch to be extremely successful during 2015 and saw them finish top Cold Start branch throughout the country. 

With business booming, the branch doing so well and the Lettings market predicted to continue strongly in 2016, they have brought on board an additional member of staff, Louise White, who has a wealth of experience on the administration side of the business having previously worked for the centralised administration centre based in Leighton Buzzard for 18 months. 

Andrew went on to say “thanks to all the landlords that have helped us achieve the levels of business we did last year by allowing us the opportunity to let their properties and find them suitable tenants and we look forward to working with them and achieving another record year ahead”.…

Purdie & Swan is very excited to announce the official launch of Purdie & Swan Lettings effective January 2016.

“Firstly, we would like to wish all our clients past and present a very Happy New Year 2016,” says Lyndsey Swan

“We have been asked many times, ‘can you help us with lettings as well?’; it has been incredibly frustrating to have to turn this business away.

“It has taken us 20 months from our launch of Purdie & Swan to find the right person to spearhead this next phase. We are a different style of estate agent and we think this is largely driven by the people in our office and our insistence and determination to provide more than what many have come to accept as ‘the standard’ within the estate agency industry.”

Commenting on the recent appointment of Katherine Treseder-Griffin as Director of the lettings side of the business, Lyndsey said:

“Katherine has extensive connections and more than 20 years of experience in lettings, 10 of which have been working in our local Hampshire marketplace. We could not be more delighted that she saw Purdie & Swan as the way forward and she shares our ethos and desire to offer clients a more straightforward and honest approach.

“We are business that has grown by word of mouth over our first two years of trading and have had great success in selling houses and apartments in both central Winchester and surrounding villages in 2014 and 2015 and look forward to this growing further in 2016 for sales and lettings.”

For more information take a look at the website – www.purdieandswan.co.uk

To arrange a rental appraisal, call Katherine on 01962 717711 or email her at katherine@purdieandswan.co.uk or for sales, contact Louise Purdie or Lyndsey Swan on 01962 717711 or email us at info@purdieandswan.co.uk…

Goadsby Lettings in Winchester has launched its student list for summer 2016 move-ins. This year Goadsby’s Lettings list was activated towards the end of November due to the demand of students looking a lot earlier this year. Many students were left disappointed towards the end of last year due to having a lack of properties available on the private market.

Kim Bone, Assistant Manager, commented that: “This year the students have been securing the best properties as early as possible to avoid disappointment later in the year. As ever the students looking for the larger houses are the first to start looking as these types of properties tend to be the most popular and let first.”

With many student properties already let before the students went home for Christmas, the Winchester office is experiencing a busy January with February looking set to continue the trend.

Kim urges any student landlords looking for tenants for the new academic year to contact Goadsby to discuss marketing. The office can be contacted by phone on 01962 620444 or email kim.bone@goadsby.com…

Cathedral Gate is an exciting new development where three of four elegant new homes are just being launched to the market.

Skilfully fusing traditional craftsmanship with striking contemporary design and form, these homes indulge the senses with sumptuous interior design finished to the highest of standards.

The location will also appeal to those who like the idea of excellent local amenities just around the corner, such as Waitrose, coffee shop, restaurant, convenience store, pharmacy and doctors surgery. Winchester’s mainline station and city centre are also within walking distance, passing a tennis club with gym facilities on the way which makes living here the perfect location for those who want to integrate into the community. There is also a good selection of schools nearby.

Named after nearby historical centres, Oxford, Salisbury and Arundel Gate all offer spacious layouts of approximately two thousand square feet which will appeal to a wide range of purchasers looking for a degree of flexibility. The accent is firmly on the head of the household with a stunning master suite in each of the homes extending across the top floor and including an abundance of fitted storage and luxurious German boutique hotel style bathroom. Three further bedrooms and two bathrooms are arranged over the first floor with a largely open plan living space downstairs.

The kitchens are stunning with no expense spared on appliances and this is very much the entertaining area with plenty of space for dining and relaxing in front of the bi-folding doors which open to the garden. There is also a separate sitting room and a utility room and cloakroom.

Each house will be sold with the benefit of two covered parking spaces

Charters will be present at Cathedral Gate on the weekend of 30 and 31 January to enable potential purchasers to have a look round the three houses available for sale. Further details and timings for the event are available by calling Charters on 01962 830880 and prices are from £850,000.…

This classic period property, situated in the prime location of Fulflood, which is within walking distance of local amenities as well as the train station and Winchester’s city centre, is being prepared for an Open Day later this month.

The house has been sympathetically modernised with the retention of lovely character features including exposed floorboards in the entrance hall, continuing through to the sitting and dining rooms. Both these reception rooms have fireplaces with a practical log burning stove in the sitting room. The kitchen has been fitted in a style to suit the house with the inclusion of a range style cooker with additional natural light coming through two windows set in the ceiling. There is also a utility room and ground floor cloakroom, essential elements for a busy family lifestyle.

Three bedrooms on the first floor all have fireplaces and double glazed sash windows and the family bathroom on this level is delightful, having been designed to a highly contemporary style with a bath and separate shower.

The loft has been converted to provide a fourth bedroom which has its own shower room.

A good size garden lies to the rear of the house which is simply laid out and permit parking is available in the road.

Chris Pickard at Goadsby in Winchester says: “This is a fine example of a classic period property in Winchester, enjoying all of the benefits of proximity to the train station, city centre and great school catchments. The property is wonderfully presented, sympathetic to the age, yet modern, particularly the very funky bathroom.  The size of the rear garden is a treat and we welcome viewings on Saturday 30th.”

Offered for sale with no forward chain, this Cranworth Road house is launched to the market at a price of £725,000. Chris and his team at Goadsby will be happy to book an appointment on the Open Day; call the office on 01962 620444.…