Docklands News

New homes on sale at Glasshouse Gardens

17th January 2014

Stratford is rapidly taking on the guise of a mini-city in the making – superb tube, train and air links serving a burgeoning commercial centre hosting the fastest-growing cluster of digital and technology companies in Europe.

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Essential to develop Creekside apartments

17th January 2014

Essential Living, a specialist developer of homes for the private rented sector has purchased the Creekside East site in Greenwich, next to the riverside, and has hired Assael Architects to work on a 17-storey tower block,

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Berkeley wins planning permission for News International site

17th January 2014

Berkeley Homes subsidiary St George has been granted planning permission for a proposal to build up to 1,800 homes on the former News International site in Wapping.

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House prices up 5.4% in a year

17th January 2014

Figures published this week by the Office for National Statistics show the average house price paid by first-time buyers rose by 6.4% in the year to November.

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Banks not lending on new-build under H2B

17th January 2014

The Financial Times reports that a number of high-street lenders are not offering loans for new-build properties through the mortgage guarantee part of Help to Buy.

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Follow the artists

17th January 2014

The Sunday Telegraph's Caroline McGhie says that for the property investor, in times of change, it is often sensible to look at where colonies of artists appear as gentrification often follows.

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