Hamptons
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Charity
Hamptons donates award-winning garden
Estate agent, Hamptons, has been awarded a Silver Gilt medal for Hamptons Mediterranean Garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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Shocking 50% increase in leasehold service charges since 2018
The average annual service charge has risen 8% over the last year to £1,431 meaning leaseholders will hand over a total of £7.6 billion in 2023.
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Housing Market
£1.3bn lost to the PRS by renters staying with Bank of Mum and Dad
The average would-be tenant is set to save £12,290 by continuing to live rent-free with parents this year – costing the PRS a whopping £1.3bn.
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Time to sell highest for 10 years as buyers grapple with mortgages
New analysis by Hamptons reveals the average wait time for a buyer is up to 49 days now, the longest in 10 years.
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Off-plan property sales plummet as ‘investors back out’
New research from Hamptons shows off-plan sales at lowest level in 10 years and only a fifth bought by investors.
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Average rents outside London pass £1,000 per month for first time
Over the last year the average rent outside the capital has risen 7.8%, which puts it 26% higher than on the eve of the Covid pandemic in February 2020.
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Housing Market
Retirement surge ‘driving landlord sales’, says leading estate agency
BTL investors leaving the market and selling up are being driven by retirement with around 140,000 retiring last year and the number is likely to continue, says Hamptons.
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Doors closing: housing market on HS2 rail route hit by ‘uncertainty’
Research by Hamptons reveals house sales and prices are being adversely affected by construction of the High Speed 2 train link between London and Birmingham.
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Movers & Shakers
Two hires for Hamptons
Estate agent, Hamptons, has expanded its residential development consultancy team with the addition of Holly Stock and Corinne Garside.
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Senior estate agency stalwart celebrates 20 years with Hamptons
One of Hamptons’ all-female executive team who rose through the company ranks is celebrating 20 years with the company. Mary Beeton, who is now head of residential sales and residential development, (main picture) started with the company in 2003 when a pint of milk was only 36p. She enjoyed some successful years as associate director in the firm’s Wimbledon Village branch before becoming regional director in 2010, overseeing branches in north, south, and east London. She later became head of sales for London, and then the company’s overall head of sales with responsibility for residential development. Currently, she looks after 92 branches and 12 land and new home ‘hubs’ that make up Hamptons residential sales and development divisions. ‘Amazing career’ Beeton is a keen environmentalist and she formed the company’s working group on sustainability, Project Planet, in 2018. The group has overseen the planting of more than 2,800 carbon-absorbing Mangrove trees, made each of Hamptons’ 96 branches a ‘refill station’, and donated £12,000 to the Marine Conservation Society. “Your passion, drive, and ambition were apparent from the start” Lesley Cairns, managing director at Hamptons, says: “I’d like to congratulate and thank Mary for an amazing career with endless achievements along…
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