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One in six ‘seriously considering’ buying a home, new stats reveal
Research by Cala Homes shows that 16% of Brits believe the time is right to take the plunge into the housing market
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Now even freeholders shouldn’t rent out via Airbnb, says developer
A development being completed near Chichester in West Sussex is believed to be the first in the UK whose builder has confirmed it includes leasehold and freehold covenants preventing short-let Airbnb-style rentals. Shopwyke Lakes (pictured, right), which includes 80+ properties from £229,000 to £625,000 being developed by CALA Homes, includes freehold houses of up to five bedrooms as well as one and two-bedroom leasehold apartments. All will feature covenants within their freeholds and leases preventing their use for “commercial purposes”. The company says the covenants at the development are specific to it and that the company has no group-wide policy on the use of Airbnb or short-term lets. “Regarding Shopwyke Lakes in Chichester, there is no specific clause which prohibits homeowners renting out their property with Airbnb,” said a CALA spokesperson. “However, in the interests of creating sustainable communities and enjoyable places to live, there is a covenant that the property must be maintained as a private residence and is not to be used for commercial purposes. “Any form of short term holiday let would be viewed as a breach of this covenant.” Covenants that prevent leasehold properties from being used for short-term lets are not uncommon. This was highlighted…
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Five property firms rapped by Advertising Standards Authority
An unprecedented five property companies including three agents and two developers had their adverts referred to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) during the run-up to the New Year. TV – Birch’s Group London-based park homes developer used photographs of an old site in a TV ad to promote a new development, which the ASA considered ‘misleading’. Birch’s Group, which has built and owns sites across the UK including in Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Somerset, used images and footage from one of its Cambridgeshire sites to illustrate its Little London Park development in the TV ad. The company told the ASA that it ‘believed that the images and footage shown in the ad were an accurate representation of properties customers could purchase at their Little London Park site’. The ASA disagreed, saying it considered TV viewers would interpret the ad to mean that the featured properties were available to purchase at the Little London Park site and that they were ready for viewing at the advertised open weekend event promoted within the ad. The ASA also noted that one of the properties featured in the ad was ‘vastly different’ to the property available at the open weekend event. Online – Whitegates…
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