Annabel Dixon

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‘We ditched our quiet village life to retire in London’

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Annabel Dixon

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‘We ditched our quiet village life to retire in London’

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Annabel Dixon

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
'We ditched our quiet village life to retire in London'

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

More retirees opt for connectivity and companionship in the capital over rural escapesAfter living in a rural Welsh village for more than 40 years, Susan Watson and her husband Keith turned their bucolic lifestyle on its head to retire to London.
Why Londoners have given up on the Cotswolds

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Annabel Dixon

The Cotswolds needs little introduction. With picturesque countryside and honey-coloured villages packed with handsome homes, private members’ clubs, celebrities and tourists, it has long been the ultimate place for Londoners to escape to. But new figures show that the London exodus to this desirable corner of England has shrunk.
Why Londoners have given up on the Cotswolds

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

"While the gap between prices in the capital and pretty much everywhere else peaked around 2016, it's been steadily closing since then," says Fell. "Today the gap between prices in the capital and the Cotswolds is around £80,000 smaller than it was at its peak. This means the average Londoner gets less house for more money or faces compromising on a picture-postcard location."'You won't see that £30k Airbnb income now'Demand has been dented in part as the life has gone back to pre-pandemic usual.
Flower power: Garden features that could add the most value to your home

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon |James Fisher

With RHS Chelsea around the corner, and the sun shining, it is perhaps not a surprise if you are feeling green-fingered. Not only is it important to have a nice garden (after all, what would the neighbours think), it could pay off, with new research suggesting that sprucing up your garden could add £20,000 to the value of your property. Regency Living has crunched the numbers from various data sources (think Home Logic, Checkatrade, myjobquote, and more).
About time: The fastest and slowest moving housing markets revealed

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

It may not seem like Waltham Forest in north east London and Manchester have an awful lot in common, but they both top Zoopla’s ranking of the fastest-moving housing markets. Homes in these two city locations sat on the market for just 19 days in the first three months of this year. At £525,000, house prices in Waltham Forest are the highest in the 10-strong list, while Manchester’s are a more affordable £240,000.
A wisteria clad hall built by one of the founders of the Bank of England

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

Whoever snaps up idyllic-looking Old Hall near the shores of Rutland Water has big shoes to fill. This beautiful Grade II-listed house was built by a co-founder of the Bank of England, Sir Gilbert Heathcote of Normanton Hall. No surprise to hear that he was one of the wealthiest commoners at the time. Further down the line, an aristocrat, socialite and racehorse breeder called Caroline Beresford, the Duchess of Montrose, took up the reins of this Georgian and Jacobean gemt.
London is the place for me* (*the discerning property buyer)

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

Who can forget the nationwide lockdowns during Covid-19? The experience of being confined to our homes fuelled a surge in demand for countryside and coastal areas. We’ve all heard the tales of buyers going to extraordinary lengths to bag homes in beauty spots. But according to Rightmove, the so-called race for space has now firmly subsided. Let’s take buyer demand. In March 2021, Cornwall overtook London as the most searched-for area on the property portal for the very first time.
Welcome to the modern party barn, where disco balls are 'non-negotiable'

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon

Disco balls, insists David Henderson, head of Savills’s Stow-on-the-Wold office, are non-negotiable items when it comes to finishing a party barn. There are those with kitchens where caterers can effortlessly beaver, ones with nightclub-worthy sound systems, a mezzanine to accommodate overflowing overnight guests and sprawling windows to let light flood in. Nonetheless, it’s the disco balls that set the tone.