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Award-winning housebuilder Redrow reckons it's a dab-hand at choosing the perfect place to live. And now it's official!


Three of its most popular locations, Harrogate, Horsforth and York, feature in the 2016 Sunday Times' Best Places to Live list and between them they are home to four of Redrow's increasingly successful developments, with a fifth due to launch later this year.


•Heritage Collection homes similar to these are being built at The Granary, York


Horsforth in Leeds,West Yorkshire is already home to The Green at Horsforth Vale, a stunning development of two, three and four-bedroom houses from Redrow's Arts & Crafts inspired Heritage Collection, with four-bedroom detached homes currently available from £321,950; and the neighbouring Abode Horsforth, with two and three- bedroom properties from the company's more contemporary-designed range, starting at £296,950. Further three, four and five-bedroom homes are coming soon at Woodlands.


Meanwhile in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, there is Devonshire Gardens, boasting houses from Redrow's Georgian inspired Regent Collection, which currently has four and five- bedroom properties for sale from £314,950.


And in York, Redrow is getting ready to launch show homes at The Granary, in Clifton, where off-plan sales are already flying out for three and four-bedroom detached houses. Current availability includes the Oxford four-bedroom detached home from £349,950. More releases will follow soon.


•Regent Collection homes at Devonshire Gardens, Harrogate


All stunning homes, all in an ideal location and here's why, according to the Sunday Times: “Harrogate this,


Help To Buy scheme meant Adam and Rebecca could afford their own home


When they decided to set up home together Adam Copeland and Rebecca Hardy from East Leeds began looking at rental properties closer to Rebecca's workplace near Horsforth.


But thanks to the government backed Help to Buy incentive offered at Redrow's Horsforth Vale development, they were delighted to discover they could actually afford to get onto the property ladder and buy.


“It's fantastic,” said community nurse Rebecca, 23. “In fact, not only could we afford to buy our own home it actually works out cheaper than renting and, of course, we have got something to show at the end of it.”


Rebecca and Adam, a 24-year-old agricultural fencer, had both been living at home with their parents but, after being together for two years, the couple decided they wanted a place of their own.


They looked at renting but found out that it would cost around £700 a month for what they were looking for. “And Adam didn't really want to rent,” said Rebecca. “He had saved quite a bit of money for a deposit before we met and so, after seeing an advert on Facebook, we decided to go and look at Redrow's Horsforth Vale development.


“The fact that it is cheaper to buy is a bonus but it makes so much more sense. To me, renting is just dead money, but I think a lot of people rent simply because they don't have the finance to start off with.We were fortunate that Adam had savings and, with the Help to Buy scheme we only needed to pay a deposit of 5%. And we loved the Abode properties.”


Abode by Redrow is a trendsetting new collection of homes with an 'uncluttered' but smart façade, along with a host of in-vogue features inside the chic boutique-style designs.


The two and three-bedroom homes boast wide open


living spaces virtually all of the ground floor is open plan and include features such as wet rooms and underfloor heating.


All of the homes can be purchased using the Government's Help to Buy scheme, which can reduce the initial purchase price by 20% as well as enabling the buyer to put down as little as 5% deposit.


“Being able to buy means that we have a home of our own and we can put our own stamp on it,” added Rebecca.


“We have bought a two-bedroom property which is a perfect size for just the two of us, and we love the high specification of the Abode homes, especially the underfloor heating downstairs, which will be lovely and cosy in winter, and all the integrated appliances in the kitchen. Everything was there so we could justmove in, so it's ideal for first time buyers like us.”


Rebecca and Adam were full of praise too for the Redrow sales team who have, they said, supported them throughout the whole process: “There was one point when we had a few issues with the mortgage and thought we might have to cancel but James in the sales office was fantastic, he didn't push us or pressure us, but just advised and helped us.”


Horsforth Vale is about six miles from Leeds city centre with excellent transport links. There's a good choice of shops, bars and restaurants in Horsforth and the area has lots of popular societies and clubs enabling homeowners to play a part in the local community.


Current prices for an Abode home here start from £296,950.


The new Abode show homes and sales hub on Low Hall Road are open Thursday to Monday inclusive from 10am until 5.30pm.


For more information call 0113 440 6910 or go online at www.redrow.co.uk/abodehorsforth.


• Rebecca Hardy and Adam Copeland at Abode, Horsforth, Leeds


Harrogate that: it crops up on every list of the best places to live/breed/shop/drink tea/eat cake/go grey, so, for a change, we were going to leave it out. But in the end, we couldn't.”


It went on: “Independent cafes and restaurants are popping up at breakneck speed, bringing Brooklyn- inspired decor, smashed avocado and crushed hemp seeds to the Yorkshire masses. The station is undergoing a £1.2m revamp and the line between Leeds and York is being electrified, cutting journey times to less than 30 minutes.”


In conclusion: “Cosmopolitan and classy, but it still has old-fashioned Yorkshire charm.”


Meanwhile over in Leeds, “the only big league city in Yorkshire” “with two universities, regional BBC and ITV studies, Opera North at the Grand Theatre and in Kirkgate Market, an Edwardian extravaganza of iron and glass covering the largest marketplace in Europe” Horsforth is the Sunday Times' favourite address thanks to excellent transport links.


The report continues: “As of next month, the number of trains serving the city centre will double from two an hour to four, and Leeds Bradford Airport is 10 minutes away by car. For beer and live music, the Forge is best, and Horsforth does well for the sort of local Italian restaurant that is never going to get the critics purring, but that serves its local community well. Try Café Marinetti or Trattoria Il Forno.


“About £700,000 will buy somewhere big and grand; £500,000 will stretch to a substantial four-bedroom house. There are two outstanding primary schools


and the local secondary, Horsforth School, is rated good and makes the top 20% nationally for exam results.”


With four-bedroom detached homes at The Green at Horsforth Vale priced from only £321,950 and a new bus link to the train station, Redrow's development is looking a sure-fire winner.


York's place in the Sunday Times' list was sealed by its history and its impeccable connections.


“The Minster, one of the world's great buildings, and the winding streets to its south attract tourists, but the locals are well served by modern-day shops and transport links; trains to London take just two hours,” says the report.


It also points out that houses in some parts of the city can top the million- pound mark.


Patsy Aicken, sales director for Redrow Homes (Yorkshire), said: “Well we don't like to say we told you so, but… Redrow's ethos is to build good quality homes and we don't want to build those homes just anywhere. There is no point having the best home in the worst location; we develop high standard homes in areas where people can have a good quality of life.


“The Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide confirms that Redrow chooses the perfect places in which to live, places in which people can live happily and where there are good amenities and connections for work and home and family life.”


For more details of Redrow's Horsforth Vale, Harrogate and York developments visit www.redrow.co.uk.


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