Central &
Wensleydale in North Yorkshire
remains ever-popular with
prospective buyers
Northern
Quality counts
Well presented properties are attracting keen interest
from buyers in this region, but anything with a flaw
may stay on the market for some time
he Central and Northern region they leap. Success in the current market
T
has emerged from last year’s trials depends upon perfection and realistic
with quiet confidence. This is pricing. The Henley office recently
because properties are coming to exchanged contracts on a beautiful
market and achieving good premiums if eight-year-old property with stunning
the guide price has been set realistically. views in one of the highest villages in
“The market has really picked up since the Chilterns. The first buyers who viewed
March and the only problem we have is a it put in an offer and the property
lack of supply,” says Stephen Christie- exchanged in two weeks for a price of
Miller of Savills, Henley. “There’s some £2.8 million. A six-bedroom home of
good stock coming on and there are similar age on the edge of Goring set in
excellent buyers out there, many of whom one acre of land with swimming pool,
are coming out of rental properties also sold quickly.
attracted by excellent mortgage deals.” “These properties were immaculate
There’s no doubt that buyers are and that is the key,” says Christie-Miller.
being more exacting in their demands and “People want to walk into a home and see
are willing to look and look again before themselves living there immediately.”
Location is still a key deciding factor.
Oxfordshire, with some of the best schools
Property hotspot | Shropshire
in the country, remains a popular area.
The Chiltern Hills, the Thames Valley and
The Old Vicarage,
the Cotswolds also remain firmly in
Ash Magna buyers’ sights. But any property that
This five-bedroom home near
suffers road, rail or air noise, a lack
Shrewsbury is set in 1.9 acres
of land and offers views to the
of privacy, or any other blight, is
Welsh Hills, Derbyshire Peaks unlikely to sell quickly, according to
and Shropshire Hills. The nearby
Christie-Miller.
market town of Whitchurch has
an excellent range of amenities.
Cotswold cream
Price: £765,000
The Cotswolds is seeing increased interest
Contact: Belinda Hutchinson-
from buyers with overseas links, many of
Smith
+44 (0)1952 239 532
whom are paying in cash. These investors
bhutchinsons@savills.com are from France, Spain, Switzerland and
America, and many are UK nationals who
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