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House sales at a three-year high

11:47am Thursday 25th April 2013

A recently published report produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), revealed that house sales transactions in 2013 were running at a three-year high.

Spring has sprung - market sentiment improves

7:00am Thursday 25th April 2013

ANOTHER month gone by and we finally see signs of spring, albeit peppered with showers.

Mixed use development is the way forward

7:00am Wednesday 24th April 2013

GONE are the days when planners can rigidly stick to planning policies which appeared to be written in stone, and for years have made any commercial development a matter of jumping through hoops to satisfy the planners.

North Worcestershire 'bucking economic forecasts'

7:00am Tuesday 23rd April 2013

REDDITCH and Bromsgrove appear to be bucking national economic forecasts, according to Ian Parker, a director at property agents John Truslove.

New area MD for Miller Homes

3:14pm Thursday 18th April 2013

MILLER Homes has appointed Darren Jones as area managing director for the Midlands and Southern region.

What’s REALLY going on in the property market?

4:22pm Tuesday 16th April 2013

Sue Evans, of Hicks Hadley Estate Agents in Halesowen, tries to pick her way through contradictory reports about the housing market.

How to make the most of auctions

4:15pm Tuesday 16th April 2013

Jonathan Hackett, partner and head of auctions for CPBigwood, highlights what to watch out for when bidding at auction.

He who hesitates is lost

10:41am Friday 12th April 2013

Springtime seems to have seen the property market take a major step forward. David Jones, managing director of Worcestershire firm Allan Morris and Jones, considers the latest figures.

Low point on new homes

10:09am Friday 12th April 2013

House building figures released in February, just before the Budget, show an 11 per cent decrease in the number of new homes started in the last year to 98,280. Apart from the height of the recession in 2009, this is the only time new-build starts have dropped below 100,000 since records began more than 30 years ago.

Di calls it a day after 30 years

9:43am Friday 12th April 2013

One of Warwickshire’s best known estate agents is to hang up her keys on April 30 after 30 years with the same business.