08th June 2023

Savills’ residential update highlights a positive housing market, with improving conditions and stable high-end segment. Market-wide sales are approaching pre-pandemic levels, while deals falling through and price cuts decline. Although there were slight decreases in home values, the overall trend is positive. Mortgage approvals faced a temporary setback, but the market’s trajectory remains optimistic. Overall, the market is expected to remain price sensitive, but demand and lender measures will help mitigate downward pressure on prices.
27th July 2022

Store House London’s latest project in Margate, Mallord Mews is approaching completion. This exceptional development consisting of 8 two-bedroom townhouses is inspired by the 19th Century St. Paul’s Studio’s on London’s Talgarth Road. Light floods every room in the complex thanks to huge imposing windows and an innovative gallery design. Described by the selling agent […]
14th July 2022

Store House London’s Palm Bay development on Margate’s seafront has won the prestigious Town Pride Award 2002, given by Margate Civic Society. The stunning Art Deco inspired development comprises nine luxury appointed apartments, many overlooking the sea in uber trendy Margate. The award is given in recognition of those developments and developers who have enhanced […]
23rd March 2021

The UK housing market in 2021 will see growth of up to 4%. North of England and The Midlands will experience the strongest expansion, so says national estate agency Savills in their annual housing market report, covering the next five years. Despite the catastrophe wrought on many sectors of the economy by Covid-19 and […]
02nd March 2021

Understanding our approach to finding the key trends in Property Development. Like so many things in life, they say that the key to success in the property development sector is being in the right place at the right time. This statement applies ideally to Margate which has been our focus for the last four years […]
18th February 2021

Although Store House London concentrates on developments in London and the South East of England, I recently came across a development in the North West which got me thinking about the future of the British High Street. This project would see a former local shopping mall converted into an ‘eat from around the world’ […]
06th June 2019

Rental Housing: Between March 2017 and March 2018, the private rented dwellings in England increased by 10,000. Over the same period the owner-occupied dwelling stock increased by 226,000 while the social and affordable rented stock decreased by 1,000 dwellings. Other public sector stock decreased by 13,000 dwellings. The figures clearly demonstrate the trend, how private […]
06th June 2019

Moneywise reviews the ways that you can pay for care in old age and the recently proposed national insurance increase for the over-50s, which is intended to help fund a fairer system The care system is currently in crisis, with many people forced to sell their homes to pay for care in later life. As […]
05th May 2019

Brexit is just around the corner and while it is impossible to predict exactly what will happen, the impact on interest rates is a concern for mortgage holders. Interest rate rise The Bank of England raised interest rates in August 2018 for the second time in 10 years to 0.75%. It has hinted that interest […]
12th May 2019

Energy efficiency: The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has estimated that the average private landlord will have to spend around £26,300 over the next 30 years to bring their properties up to carbon neutral status, the government’s target by 2050. In a new report ‘UK housing: Fit for the future?’ the CCC has warned that […]