020 7538 0102
29th January 2016
London & Quadrant is preparing to release the first private sales at its Quebec Quarter project. Close to Canada Water and Surrey Quays stations, the development consists of 151 one, two and three-bedroom apartments, and 69 one and two-bedroom Shared Ownership homes, spread across seven blocks. The first three-bed properties will be available to view from Saturday, January 30th, costing from £770,000 to £845,000. Further phases are scheduled to launch throughout the year, with the scheme scheduled for completion in early 2017.
The Wharf (25/01/2016)
29th January 2016
Twenty-one per cent of Londoners questioned by YouGov and property group Lendlease chose Stratford and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as the area of the city likely to improve most by 2020, putting it ahead of Croydon (9%), the City (9%), Tottenham (6%), and Canary Wharf (4%).
Home Designer & Architect (29/01/2016)
29th January 2016
In an interview with The Wharf, Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs discusses the planning legacy of his predecessor, Lutfor Rahman, describing it as “a very stressful issue, especially on the Isle of Dogs”, where he is keen to address concerns about housing density. He comments: “We’re reviewing our Local Plan but when you’re close to a very good transport hub like Canary Wharf you probably can get some denser developments there, it makes sense. But you have to make sure the services are there too and you need to resist the temptation for developers to stick a few more floors on their buildings”.
The Wharf (27/01/2016)
29th January 2016
Nationwide has warned that house prices are set to continue rising through 2016. Average house price growth eased to 0.3% this month from December's eight-month high of 0.8%. Robert Gardner, chief economist at the building society, said the pace of growth remained broadly stable: "The concern remains that construction activity will lag behind strengthening demand, putting upward pressure on house prices and eventually reducing affordability." Nationwide said the average price of a property in the UK was £196,829 in January.
The Daily Telegraph (28/01/2016)
29th January 2016
House buyers put down an average deposit of £81,721 in December, a 15% increase year-on-year and the highest level since the Mortgage Advice Bureau began collating the figures in 2009. "An inevitable repercussion of rising house prices is that higher deposits are required," Brian Murphy, head of lending at the MAB, said. The research also revealed that the average buyer's loan-to-value fell to 68.2% in December, the lowest LTV since June 2010. The MAB also recorded a 2.9% fall in the average salary of homebuyers from £39,983 in December 2014 to £38,820 last month.
The Times (27/01/2016)
22nd January 2016
Docklands Property Matters is proud to announce its membership of OnTheMarket.com, a direct competitor to Rightmove and Zoopla.
As a consequence, it will be advertising all of its properties from now on at OnTheMarket.com which features hundreds of thousands of properties for sale and to rent at all price points across the UK.
The portal has created a sea change in the online property search market since its launch in January 2015, and has attracted overall support from 6,000 estate and letting agent offices across the UK - of which more than 90% are contracted offices. The balance is from firms which have signed a Letter of Intent expressing their support and their intention to join as members when total support reaches 7,500 offices.
OnTheMarket.com has become a ‘must-view’ website for the key audience of serious property-seekers.
OnTheMarket.com is a mutual organisation without the requirement to feed dividends to external shareholders. The board includes senior representatives of Chestertons, Douglas & Gordon, Glentree Estates, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Knight Frank, Savills, Spicerhaart and Strutt & Parker.
All of these firms are advertising their properties at OnTheMarket.com and all of them are launching their new-to-market properties there in advance of advertising them on any other portal: typically 24 to 48 hours ahead.* This provides an extra and compelling reason for serious property-seekers to visit the portal and to return.
OnTheMarket.com member agents commit to advertise their properties on no more than one other competing portal. In practice, this means in most cases removing their properties from either Rightmove or Zoopla. Around 90% of OnTheMarket.com's members have chosen to remain with Rightmove and less than 10% have retained Zoopla.
The property search at OnTheMarket.com is slick, simple, fast and state-of-the-art, compatible with the latest technologies. The website adapts seamlessly to fit the screen of any device being used to view it. There is no clutter from irritating and distracting third party adverts, nor any spam email.
The properties are the “heroes” of the search, with great prominence given to the size and quality of the all-important photographs. Every property at OnTheMarket.com is marketed by a locally-based estate or letting agent because OnTheMarket.com knows the majority of the public recognises the benefits of having a local professional agent who can manage the sales or lettings process on their behalf. OnTheMarket.com does not feature properties marketed by online-only "agents".