By Kasia Banas, Consultant Having parents with property wealth is significantly more important in determining your ability to buy a home than your earnings or education, new research has shown. Young people whose parents have property wealth are now almost …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant Chelgate Local’s latest breakfast briefing went with a bang last month, as keen delegates braved a miserable rainy morning to gather in Hertfordshire over bacon butties and coffee. Attendees from titans of the property industry …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant Half of home movers move less than 10 miles, and we are moving half as often as we did 30 years ago, new research shows. Analysis by home moving company AnyVan.com of over 18,000 home …

Get up to speed on the government’s latest policies and guidance on later living and explore how developers and planners can help provide housing which meets the needs of all sectors of the economy. Chelgate Local and Barton Willmore would …

This month: Raynsford Review, understanding councillors, super-prime market steadies, Castlepoint crisis and new homes growth slow. Raynsford reins in ‘patchwork’ planning system There is a ‘chaotic patchwork’ of different planning responsibilities in the country, the long-awaited Raynsford Review of the planning …

By Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property Castle Point council this week voted its draft local plan down. As the council is on the Secretary of State James Brokenshire’s ‘naughty list’ it looks likely that the Government will intervene and …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant  There is a ‘chaotic patchwork’ of different planning responsibilities in the country, the long-awaited Raynsford Review of the planning system warned earlier this month. The report, which provides “a holistic appraisal of the kind of planning …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant The super-prime market is rarely affected by the vagaries of the general housing market, but it is a very good guide to confidence in the economy – if rich people are investing in London, they …