Lancashire’s rural property sector has, like any property sector, within any county, faces its own share of challenges over the years. I would split the sector into 2 areas, Agricultural and Rural Residential. The rural property sector in Lancashire covers a wide area in terms of the type of property. This diversity is something about […]

Residential and rural property sales have been slowing in some areas – we have all seen the newspaper headlines dictating that the rental sector within the UK continues to grow. This is through a combination of the affordability issues in respect of purchase and also we have seen a new breed of landlord, that of […]

Following the launch of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) many landowners will have found themselves contacted by developers or agents purporting to act on behalf of developers. The NPPF has now been in existence for over 12 months and during that time parcels of land have received planning consent that ordinarily would have been […]

The rural and village property specialists explain why it’s the ideal Ame to put your village property on the market. It’s been a long time coming but summer is finally here and what better time could there be to launch your property onto the market? The longer days give homes fresh appeal, gardens are beginning […]

he Englishman’s home is his castle – or so they say. Even in today’s supposedly poor residential property market there is always strong demand for something different and there is open nothing quite so different as the opportunity for someone to build their own home. The traditional route of acquiring a house would be to […]

As village and rural agents, 2013 has once again been a high-performing year for Armitstead Barnett. Sales were agreed across a wide spectrum of property types ranging from semi detached village homes through to development properties and large detached houses with land. Our team currently holds residential stock with prices ranging from £100,000 through to […]

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is due to be reviewed in 2014/2015 – a review which is likely to have implications for many of our clients. The Single Payment Scheme will be replaced by the Basic Payment Scheme and although it will be similar in many ways to its predecessor, there will be some significant […]

Armitstead Barnett partner David Cowburn has successfully achieved the designation of FRICS, meaning he is now a Fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. According to RICS only about 20% of chartered surveyors attain this status so it is an impressive achievement. David Said: “I am delighted to have achieved this significant career accomplishment. […]

The last 12 months have been exceptionally busy for Armitstead Barnett’s residential development team representing a variety of clients across a wide array of sites and matters. This year has seen us provide advice across nine local authority areas covering a large proportion of the North West. Below is a snapshot of the types of […]

Some business experts have predicted that Lancashire could become the ‘financial hub’ for shale gas exploration and extraction in the UK and Europe, but how realistic is this statement? As most of Lancashire must now be aware, there is a vast resource of natural gas underneath us. The issue is whether it can be extracted […]