The Luxury Property Show is on for two days – today and tomorrow only. It’s organised by Fine and Country and is being held at the Hurlingham Club in London.
Register to go – http://www.theluxurypropertyshow.com/ – but hurry!
The Hall GRISTHORPE,
The Hall in Gristhorpe has a swimming pool and a gym, has plenty of room, looks lovely and is set not far from the coast. It has a bar, a wine cellar, some lovely great bedrooms, and looks lovely inside.
It’s only £995,000 too!
Main House = 7542 Sq Ft/701 Sq M
Garages = 933 Sq Ft/87 Sq M
So it offers tons of space inside and the gardens look pretty good too!
House in Criccieth
This lovely 6 bedroom house in Criccieth is a Grade II listed 17th century manor house that comes with five residential cottages set in a secluded position within 75 acres of land! It’s on at £1,950,000!
The house is packed with lovely features from fantastic fireplaces, beautiful floors, wood panelling and it has lovely ground too. The rooms are steeped with history as you could expect from a property of this age.
Talhenbont Hall has a putting green and a tennis court, and also has fishing on the banks of the Dwyfach River where you might also find otters!
Council tax blow for second-home owners
A bit of a shocker but makes sense to everyone who hasn’t got a second home!
Council tax blow for second-home owners.
Local authorities will be told they can abolish the rebate. This will be great in areas with large numbers of second homes where council tax may then be cut for people with only one home!
Passivhaus
Passivhaus uses 75% less energy for space heating than current new builds in the UK.
“The heat losses of the building are reduced so much that it hardly needs any heating at all. Passive heat sources like the sun, human occupants, household appliances and the heat from the extract air cover a large part of the heating demand. The remaining heat can be provided by the supply air if the maximum heating load is less than 10W per square metre of living space. If such supply-air heating suffices as the only heat source, we call the building a Passive House.”
Sounds fantastic and something we really should be aiming for!
There are Passivhaus standard properties being built in the UK – one in Totnes Devon was recently given it’s certificate!
Trimpley House
Trimpley House is a lovely looking house set in beautiful countryside. The squash court sets it above most other houses. It also has a tennis court.
It’s an eight bedroom georgian house that’s stunning. It is, as you would expect, a grade 2 listed building.
Glebe House in Canterbury
Glebe House is stunning. It’s a green house – literally!
it’s a grade 2 former rectory that has a cute little tower on the back. The front is on the road and is a lovely looking frontage!
Claim to fame
Built in 1875 this spacious villa once housed The Queen Grandmother and The Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
That was enough to get me to look at this 6 bedroomed semi-detached house in Brighton
It’s called Toad Hall, and is on Wilbury Road, Hove, BN3 3JJ
The red carpeted staircase is so lovely, it’s certainly fit for a princess!
Staircase in Brighton
I love this staircase. The outside of the house is pretty tiers of white which remind me of a wedding cake.
This 7 bedroom terraced house for sale at £3,200,000 is on Lewes Crescent, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2.
The house is amazing, it’s a Magnificent Grade I Listed regency townhouse. Over 6 floors it has some amazing rooms included the Kings Loo which is listed.
The house also benefits from the use of the beautifully kept private Kemp Town Enclosures; a 6 acre private garden which also gives direct access to the beach via a tunnel under the road.
The price tag is a lovely £3.2M.
Carbon neutral housing by 2016
All new build housing from 2016 will have to be Carbon Neutral. This will probably mean that most won’t have gas or oil central heating systems installed. It should mean they’re very well insulated though and will be very cheap to heat.
It’s actually from the last Labour government who in December 2006, implemented the idea of these changes.
The government has set up the Zero Carbon Hub –
Whilst I can see the importance of cutting back on use of oil and gas (read about Peak Oil to find out more about why), I’m not sure why phrases like fuel poverty get used when talking about new builds. People who can afford a new build house generally have plenty of money – and if they don’t, perhaps that’s because they’ve just bought an incredibly expensive new house.
Builders who fail to meet the standard will be fined £15000. I’m not sure if this is per home, or per housing unit though.
So what is a zero carbon house?
For a new home to be genuinely zero carbon it will need to deliver zero carbon (net over the year) for all energy use in the home – cooking, washing and electronic entertainment appliances as well as space heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and hot water.
Back in 2006 it was announced in the pre-Budget report that there’d a relief from stamp duty land tax (SDLT) for most new zero carbon homes built in the UK. However to date very few homes have qualified for this relief.
There’s a wiki page about the Code for Sustainable housing if you want to read more.
For me it’s very interesting to see how new builds get built in the year 2016 and whether they can actually be carbon neutral over a year.
Perhaps it will spur on new designs of housing to maximise use of insulation and renewable energy sources.