Search Acumen Report: Commercial Real Estate Volumes Grew By 20% Since 2016
Contrary to some doom-laden headlines we’ve been seeing in the last year, our new data-driven study found that the commercial real estate sector is healthy across England and Wales. In June 2019, we published our commercial real estate report examining the trends in transactions in non-residential properties in England and Wales using HM Land Registry’s […]
Search Acumen Comments On The Digitisation Of The Local Land Charges Register For Norwich City Council
Since 2016, there have been 7,765 property transactions in Norwich City Council valuing just over £1.9bn Of those, just over 85% (6,629) were residential property transactions, totalling around £1.43bn. Norwich has experienced 1,136 commercial real estate transactions since 2016, totalling £496m In 2018, the number of commercial property transactions in Norwich rose by close to […]
Student Spotlight – Agency Letting Fees: Banned
The story so far Over the past year the problems with letting fees have featured in the news one way or another and it’s only recently that the government has acted. It costs the average person over £200 in tenant fees to move house and that doesn’t even include the deposit they have to pay […]
Local Land Charges Register Facing Delays To Migrated Roll Outs
It has been a year since HM Land Registry (HMLR) launched their fully digital Local Land Charges register. One year on, how successful has the digital migration been? In July last year, HMLR hoped to have fully migrated twenty local authorities to the service. However, up to now only six are using the LLC system. […]
Interim Report Suggests Greater Public Input Into Planning Process
Local councils have been advised to redevelop retail parks into ‘mixed use’ communities and to also offer improved levels of public involvement in the planning process. Currently, many retail parks and large supermarkets were built specifically as retail units to house shops and restaurants. However, the ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’ interim report claims that […]