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.
Read moreMonday, 23rd March 2020
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Professional Services
In response to COVID-19 The Bank of England have dropped Base Rate to 0.1% and announced £200bn in bond purchases.
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 14th November 2019
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Commercial, Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services, Residential
A large, happy and noisy crowd assembled in the Marlborough offices of Woolley & Wallis on Wednesday 13th November 2019s to celebrate their official opening of the new premises.
Read moreMonday, 11th November 2019
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Commercial, Farm & Rural, Lettings, Professional Services, Residential
On Wednesday 13th November 2019, the Marlborough office of Woolley & Wallis are officially celebrating the move to their new offices in Hughenden Yard, High Street, Marlborough.
Read moreTuesday, 5th November 2019
Written by:
Chris Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
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.
Read moreTuesday, 25th September 2018
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
On Monday 24th September 2018 the Directors of Woolley & Wallis Finance Ltd spent a fascinating afternoon with guests at Warminster Maltings, courtesy of Robin Appell.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 17th August 2018
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis stand at this years Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show on Wednesday 15th August 2018 was packed out from start to finish.
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreTuesday, 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
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 8th January 2018
Written by:
Toby Kindred
Category:
Auctions, Commercial, Events, Farm & Rural, Lettings, Professional Services, Residential
The Woolley & Wallis office in Ringwood has opened its doors with a fresh new look and experienced team.
Read moreTuesday, 28th November 2017
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Comment, Professional Services
Francis Clark Accountants join W&W for working lunch
Read moreTuesday, 14th November 2017
Written by:
Simon Male
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis is delighted to announce the appointment of Matthew Wilcox to strengthen their specialist Farm & Rural management team based in Salisbury.
Read moreMonday, 19th September 2016
Written by:
Tom Fuller
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Services, Residential
The online market place has become the commonplace with the rise of RightMove, OnTheMarket, Zoopla et al and house buyers can find themselves confronted by a vast shortlist of properties when conducting an online search.
Read moreMonday, 12th September 2016
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Farm & Rural, Lettings, Professional Services
We are closing in on Michaelmas, 29th September, which will normally mean Tenants receiving a dreaded rent review notice! but why should it be this way, with the current state of the agricultural markets should Tenants be serving notices on the Landlords and look at the possibility of a rent reduction?
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 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, 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.
Read moreMonday, 16th November 2015
Written by:
Jonathan Young
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Services, Residential
Gleeson Developments Ltd have submitted a planning application for 50,000 sq ft of employment space and 200 homes as a first phase of a proposed development at Forest Farm.
Read moreThursday, 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).
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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”.
Read moreWednesday, 14th October 2015
Written by:
Christopher Powell
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
On the 01 October 2015 the Agriculture (Model Clauses Fixed Equipment) (England) Regulations 2015 SI 950 were introduced, replacing the previous regulations that have been in place since 1973.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 17th September 2015
Written by:
Rob Bishop
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis Finance Limited are proud to be sponsoring the Aberdeen Angus breed at the 2015 Royal County of Berkshire Show at the Newbury Showground on 19th and 20th September 2015.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 3rd September 2015
Written by:
Richard Nocton
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
Handing over the reins of the family farm is not an easy discussion topic and one that requires professional guidance.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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!
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 5th August 2015
Written by:
Tom Fuller
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services, Residential
Kicking off the summertime show season, Woolley & Wallis once again hosted a Trade Stand at the New Forest and Hampshire County Show and welcomed clients both former and current alongside members of the show-going public to their prominent ringside marquee.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreTuesday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 18th June 2015
Written by:
Pip White
Category:
Commercial, Events, Professional Services
An international currency exchange operator has taken a prominent glazed corner unit at the junction of Silver Street and the High Street.
Read moreWednesday, 10th June 2015
Written by:
Andrew Donald
Category:
Professional Services, Residential
It is now 4 months since the new OnTheMarket portal launched and we are very pleased to be able to share with you the results of another record month.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreThursday, 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.
Read moreMonday, 16th February 2015
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Services
The Farm & Rural department in Salisbury welcomes new administrator Chloe Hooper to to their team.
Read moreMonday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 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.
Read moreWednesday, 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.
Read moreFriday, 24th October 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
The second, in a series of four CAP Reform Roadshows was held at Market Lavington, Devizes and the delegates were treated to a feast of information by Woolley & Wallis experts.
Read moreTuesday, 21st October 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
On Monday 20th October, Woolley & Wallis held a lively and successful seminar on the implications of th Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.
Read moreTuesday, 14th October 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
We would be delighted if you would come and join us at the CAP Reform Roadshow.
Read moreWednesday, 10th September 2014
Category:
Farm & Rural, Professional Services
Woolley & Wallis Finance has celebrated its first birthday and where better to choose to celebrate other than a local brewery!!
Read moreTuesday, 9th September 2014
Category:
Events, Lettings, Professional Services, Residential
Wednesday 1st October between 5pm and 7pm at our Salisbury Office
Read moreFriday, 22nd August 2014
Category:
Events, Farm & Rural, Professional Services, Residential
The sun shone, smiling crowds flocked in and a highly successful agricultural show was held at the Turnpike Showground on Wednesday 20 August 2014.
Read moreFriday, 11th July 2014
Category:
Commercial, Farm & Rural, Professional Services
We must not let valuations follow the same demise as surveys. Public demand has in places capped the level of fees that surveyors can charge for a survey – whether a superficial report or an in-depth structural survey. Why?
Read moreThursday, 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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