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COVID-19 caused the residential market to pause following a spring bounce. As we exit lockdown we are seeing the strong pre-COVID market return. We are here to help so please call us if you are thinking about buying or selling or require expert property advice.
Stay safe, keep well and stay in touch.
COVID-19 caused the residential market to pause following a spring bounce. As we exit lockdown we are seeing the strong pre-COVID market return. We are here to help so please call us if you are thinking about buying or selling or require expert property advice.
Stay safe, keep well and stay in touch.
Thursday, 9th July 2020
Written by:
Tom Fuller
Category:
Professional Comment, Professional Services
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a temporary Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday on residential purchases in England and Northern Ireland up to a threshold of £500,000 until the 31st March 2021.
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Friday, 27th March 2020
Written by:
Clive Gregory
Category:
Professional Comment
There is much confusion and misinformation in the media sensationalism regarding the housing market since the Government’s advice was announced yesterday. The three key factors are flexibility, pragmatism and common sense.
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Thursday, 26th March 2020
Written by:
Clive Gregory
Category:
Professional Comment
Further to recent Government advice we feel it appropriate to close our offices and move our teams to working from home during these difficult times. We will therefore be working remotely to continue helping our clients and customers and will take all possible steps to ensure service levels remain high during these rather challenging times.
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Thursday, 12th March 2020
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Professional Comment
With the Bank of England cutting base rate by 0.50% today down to 0.25%, it’s never been a better time to review & protect the cost of borrowing money.
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Thursday, 12th March 2020
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Professional Comment
This budget was not expected to be ground breaking with Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivering his first budget after only being in the role since February!
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Thursday, 5th March 2020
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Professional Comment
Woolley & Wallis were privileged to have Julian O'Dell from TM Training come to Salisbury on Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Tuesday, 7th January 2020
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment
The Grade II Listed, three-storey retail property comprising some 2,237 sq ft (208 sq m) was sold with the benefit of planning permission which provided for the layout to be re-arranged to provide a slightly smaller shop on the ground floor, an additional two-storey commercial unit at the rear and a spacious 2 bedroom flat over first and second floors.
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Tuesday, 10th December 2019
Written by:
Ben Marshall
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Jason Lewis FRICS and Catherine Bristol join our expanding professional team in Shaftesbury.
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Friday, 15th November 2019
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Professional Comment
Richard Nocton, Partner in our Marlborough office, attended a Bank of England briefing on 14th November 2019 in Swindon, hosted by their Regional Agent Donna Kehoe.
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Tuesday, 8th October 2019
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The Commercial Department of Woolley & Wallis has completed the sale of a prominent freehold garage showroom and forecourt at Weyhill Road, Andover.
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Friday, 7th September 2018
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis have let Unit 2 Danebury Court at Old Sarum for a private client.
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Tuesday, 29th May 2018
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis are delighted to announce the appointment of Charles Lucas as a Consultant land agent to the firm.
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Tuesday, 17th April 2018
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Commercial, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services, Residential
Poulton Farm Estate is being brought to the market by agents Woolley & Wallis with a guide price of £7.25 million
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Tuesday, 17th April 2018
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Following the relocation of its previous occupier, a small freehold office building with its own car park has come to the market through Woolley & Wallis.
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Monday, 12th March 2018
Written by:
Andrew Donald
Category:
Professional Comment
We are sad to report that John Twentyman passed away whilst swimming in Anguilla on the 24th February.
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Thursday, 21st December 2017
Written by:
Marcus Gould
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
As far as new sales are concerned, December and January have always been seen as a very quiet time in the property world, estate agents and Solicitors shut up shop whilst families prepare for the festive season ahead.
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Tuesday, 28th November 2017
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Francis Clark Accountants join W&W for working lunch
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Monday, 27th November 2017
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment
A planned cut to business rate rises will be brought in in 2018 rather than 2020 following an announcement by the chancellor in this Autumns budget.
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Monday, 20th November 2017
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
Fuelled by audience questions there will be discussions around Brexit, Succession Planning, Tax, Land Values, Diversification and Farm Management
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Monday, 23rd October 2017
Written by:
Marcus Gould
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
Market conditions have most certainly changed from Q1 and Q2 of 2017, and now more favourable of a ‘buyers market’. However, buyers are still active in the market, viewing properties, making offers and experienced agents are snapping up these buyers for their clients.
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Monday, 18th September 2017
Written by:
Sophie Clotworthy
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
Whether looking for a family home with equestrian facilities for children in the pony club, to full scale professional competition yards there are several factors which will be on all potential purchasers wish lists.
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Monday, 14th August 2017
Written by:
Marcus Gould
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
More than six-million people move home every year according to national census figures. These numbers reveal we are changing homes at a faster rate than ever before with people in the southern half of the country the most frequent movers.
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Wednesday, 14th June 2017
Written by:
Dougal Trentham
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
The chill wind that has blown through Britain’s housing market ever since stamp duty went up and the referendum vote went out has left thousands of homeowners stuck in in freeze-frame.
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Friday, 26th May 2017
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
Members of the rural team all gathered in the Vale of Pewsey on Thursday 18th May 2017 for an afternoon's farm walk followed by a relaxing de-brief in a local hostelry following the intense period working up to 15th May deadline for submissions to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
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Monday, 27th February 2017
Written by:
Sophie Clotworthy
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
In an ever changing world and one full of uncertainty, property and especially agricultural land and property is regarded as a secure, safe haven to protect capital investment.
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Thursday, 16th February 2017
Written by:
Clive Gregory
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
The internet has revolutionised how we buy and sell property and a growing number of online agents are encouraging people to sell their own properties through them and not use a High Street alternative.
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Friday, 20th January 2017
Written by:
Tom Fuller
Category:
Professional Comment, Residential
If you are thinking of purchasing a thatched home you may understandably be concerned about the risk of fire. In fact, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU), your thatched home is no more likely to catch fire than a house with a conventional roof structure, provided you understand what you are dealing with.
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Thursday, 12th January 2017
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Farm & Rural, Historical, Professional Comment
For some Brexit was an overnight sensation, others a huge disappointment, regardless of feeling it has been at the forefront of conversation since that long night in June.
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Monday, 25th July 2016
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Even though planning policy is in black and white individual interpretation of the legislation varies from county to county and planning officer to planning officer.
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Monday, 25th July 2016
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Events, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The Government has recently won a legal challenge against a High Court ruling that quashed a national planning policy intended to exempt small sites from affordable housing obligations.
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Tuesday, 3rd May 2016
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Christopher Powell has recently passed his Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Assessment of Professional Competence APC) and is now a qualified Chartered Surveyor.
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Thursday, 21st April 2016
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Richard Nocton, Partner with land agents Woolley & Wallis, spoke to a packed audience of over 200 farmers and landowners at Wellington Barn, Calne on Wednesday 20th April 2016.
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Wednesday, 6th April 2016
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Wednesday 20 April 2016 Wellington Barn, Manor Farm, Calstone, Wellington, Calne, SN11 9PY
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Monday, 4th April 2016
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Events, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis have arranged the sale of two commercial buildings in Milford Street in the City Centre.
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Friday, 29th January 2016
Written by:
Allison Barfoot
Category:
Events, Lettings, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The law introduces a requirement from 1 February 2016 for all landlords of private rental accommodation in England to carry out Right to Rent checks for new tenancy agreements to determine whether occupiers aged 18 and over have the right to live in the UK legally.
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Friday, 29th January 2016
Written by:
Tom Fuller
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services, Residential
A report recently published by Lloyds Bank National Parks Review has concluded that prospective home owners must pay in excess of £100,000 extra for the privilege to live in some of the nation’s most scenic landscapes.
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Monday, 7th December 2015
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Wednesday, 2nd December 2015
Written by:
Rebecca Hutton
Category:
Lettings, Professional Comment
Chancellor George Osborne announced on Wednesday that buy-to-let and second home properties will be subject to an additional 3% stamp duty from next April.
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Wednesday, 2nd December 2015
Written by:
Rebecca Hutton
Category:
Lettings, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The Home Office has announced that the Right to Rent Scheme, which has been trialled in the West Midlands since last December, will be extended across England from 1st February 2016.
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Thursday, 12th November 2015
Written by:
Clive Gregory
Category:
Lettings, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Becca Hutton has successfully completed her Level 3 Technical Award in Residential Letting and Management which is a requirement for membership of ARLA (The Association of Residential Letting Agents).
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Thursday, 12th November 2015
Written by:
Richard Wedgwood
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
In undertaking a huge variety of valuation work from Marlborough I have found a great number of instances where people and even companies have been occupying ground or premises without any written agreement defining the basis of occupation.
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Wednesday, 11th November 2015
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Planning early will ensure you are not fighting fires later in life. A clear plan will have different scenarios based on life events.
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Wednesday, 11th November 2015
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The measures introduced in 2013 which allowed offices to be converted into homes without having to apply for planning permission are set to stay following an announcement by the Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis on October 13.
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Wednesday, 14th October 2015
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis were invited along with Old Mill by Greenway Training to present a talk titled “Taking a step forward towards taking a step back”.
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Thursday, 8th October 2015
Written by:
Dougal Trentham
Category:
Events, Professional Comment, Professional Services, Residential
The housing market promised much this year but, like a student who seems to pay attention in class, yet flunks the exam, it hadn't quite delivered.
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Tuesday, 6th October 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis are delighted to be attending and supporting the show.
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Thursday, 24th September 2015
Written by:
Anna Kitching
Category:
Events, Lettings, Professional Comment
The Government has introduced the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations (2015).
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Wednesday, 16th September 2015
Written by:
Jonathan Young
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Jonathan Young FRICS FAAV, as Chairman of the Hants, Wilts & Dorset Agricultural Valuers Association, held the Chairman’s Day at Wiltshire Grain near Shrewton, Salisbury on Tuesday 15th September 2015.
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Thursday, 10th September 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The highly successful team at Woolley & Wallis Finance Limited held one of their popular breakfast seminars with the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC) on Thursday 10th September 2015.
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Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Christopher Powell from the Marlborough Team has successfully achieved planning permission for an agricultural building to help expand ‘Just Kidding’ a kid (goat) meat rearing business.
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Thursday, 20th August 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The RICS and Royal Agricultural University have published their analysis of the agricultural land market for the first half of 2015 and Woolley & Wallis have been contributors to this.
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Thursday, 20th August 2015
Written by:
Christoper Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Harvest is upon us and within a few weeks drilling will be in full flow and the stress of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) will seem a distant memory!
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Monday, 17th August 2015
Written by:
Jonathan Young
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Please join us the the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show on Wednesday 19th August.
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Thursday, 6th August 2015
Written by:
Sloany Singer
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis have recently appointed Richard Wedgwood as a land agent to work in their Marlborough office.
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Wednesday, 29th July 2015
Written by:
Pip White
Category:
Commercial, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis Commercial have arranged the sale of 3 Brown Street, Salisbury.
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Tuesday, 28th July 2015
Written by:
Robyn Harper
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis has successfully secured a grant of £10,000 under the Water Capital Grant Scheme to cover over a cattle collection yard at Morrisholt Farm, Whiteparish.
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Wednesday, 22nd July 2015
Written by:
Allison Barfoot
Category:
Events, Lettings, Professional Comment
Allison Barfoot achieves NFoPP QCF Level 3 Technical Award in Residential Letting and Property Management
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Friday, 10th July 2015
Written by:
Rob Bishop
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Despite the current drop in cereal, milk and beef price, the scarcity of available land continues to drive the land values onwards and upwards. This coupled with a difficult lending environment, makes growth a challenging prospect for some farmers. Rob Bishop, Director of Woolley & Wallis Finance, looks at the lending environment and what farmers need to consider when trying to secure finance.
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Thursday, 9th July 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
In the last 5 years, agricultural land values have more than doubled to an average of £10,000 per acre. A limited supply and continued demand have driven prices higher, in some cases to over £12,000 per acre.
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Wednesday, 24th June 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
Woolley & Wallis have been instructed to sell 9 acres of land at Great Bedwyn near Marlborough which includes about 666m of fishing on the River Dun at a guide price of £85,000.
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Friday, 5th June 2015
Written by:
Rob Horton
Category:
Commercial, Events, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis Commercial have recently started marketing the Old Ramparts Filling Station site which has been lying vacant and derelict since 2002.
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Wednesday, 3rd June 2015
Written by:
Dougal Trentham
Category:
Events, Professional Comment, Professional Services, Residential
The housing market was expected to stagnate this year because of political uncertainty over the General Election, fears of deflation and low interest rates.
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Wednesday, 13th May 2015
Category:
Events, Professional Comment
Board member, Paul Masters, Group Marketing and Operations Director at KFH, said: “There is no doubt that OnTheMarket.com is having a great impact on the industry and it is moving into second place rapidly.”
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Monday, 27th April 2015
Written by:
John Woolley
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Historical, Professional Comment, Professional Services, Residential
Peppercorn rents are a rarity nowadays but in the past have been used with great effect.
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Monday, 20th April 2015
Written by:
Laura Barlow
Category:
Events, Professional Comment, Residential
There has never been a better time to buy new; with the Government-backed Help to Buy Scheme allowing both first time buyers and previous home owners to buy with as little as a 5% deposit and at 80% of the agreed sale price.
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Tuesday, 24th March 2015
Written by:
John Woolley
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment
The feast of the annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an important traditional quarter day particularly in the rural calendar.
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Friday, 20th March 2015
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis are delighted that Chris Powell has joined their busy Marlborough office to deal with a wide range of rural professional work.
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Monday, 16th March 2015
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Government grants worth a total of £10 million are now available to fund projects that reduce the impact agriculture has on water quality.
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Thursday, 12th March 2015
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Our three Farm and Rural teams are busy registering farmers and collating information for the new BPS scheme.
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Thursday, 26th February 2015
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Richard Nocton, Partner in the Marlborough office spoke to a packed audience of over 200 farmers and landowners on Tuesday 24th February 2015 at Royal Wootton Bassett RFC.
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Monday, 9th February 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
The latest Rural Land Market Survey, released by the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and RAU (Royal Agricultural University) shows that demand for farmland continues to outpace supply.
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Tuesday, 6th January 2015
Category:
Events, Professional Comment, Residential
The chancellor has announced a long awaited reform to the way that property buyers pay Stamp Duty.
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
We spend a lot of time talking in confidence to our clients about their property, their families, values and tax.
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
I wonder if a recent Court ruling in Scotland will impact on English decisions next? They often have done in the past.
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
What an amazing year 2014 has turned out to be for land price – demand and prices have risen beyond all expectations and with continued shortage of supply, prices are set firm ahead.
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Friday, 14th November 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
After the success of the four Common Agricultural Policy seminars held in Wiltshire and Dorset in November, Woolley & Wallis’ Farm & Rural team have announced an additional date in Hampshire.
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Friday, 7th November 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis held four Common Agricultural Policy seminars in Wiltshire and Dorset over the past month and they were well attended by local farmers and interested parties.
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Wednesday, 5th November 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Grasp your last chance to attend the final Common Agricultural Policy reform seminar which will be held at 2pm at Salisbury & South Wilts Sports Club on the Wilton road in Salisbury SP2 9NY.
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Thursday, 10th July 2014
Category:
Commercial, Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
I have not studied the new regulations in detail, but some farmers seem to see them as an opportunity at last to develop buildings that previously the Planning Authority have refused to approve. Perhaps in some cases these will be welcome, but farmers need to think ahead as to what the result might be.
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