Wednesday December 2, 2015

The ‘studentification’ of Newcastle city centre, and other cities like it, is certainly a talking point in the property industry. I warmly welcome the increase in bespoke student accommodation in and around the city. For too many years the standard of dedicated student property has been left at pretty poor levels, or ignored altogether. The […]

Tuesday March 31, 2015

It’s election time again! For us voters, it means the five-yearly task of picking out the tiny grains of honest policy from the tidal wave of empty promise and worthless soundbite. It’s hard to know where to start. Help for first time buyers grabbed the headlines in the pre-election budget in March and each party has […]

Tuesday July 2, 2013

Newcastle City Council has decided that the root cause of noise complaints and anti-social behaviour in Heaton, Sandyford, Jesmond and South Gosforth is multi-occupancy houses with the finger of blame being pointed straight at students. The knee-jerk reaction from our Council was to impose Article 4 Directions, meaning any development requires planning permission. Despite significant […]

Wednesday May 1, 2013

Landlords often tackle renovation work to make their property standout in the lettings market. A common and popular improvement when a landlord is looking to move their property away from the student market (and focus more on professional lets) is to replace old flooring in favour of new. In 2003 the government introduced regulation designed […]