Wednesday, 4 August 2010

UK Property Market Suffers While Standen Weathers the Storm

It became apparent about three years ago that there was a malevolent financial beast rearing its ugly head, starting with the subprime mortgage fiasco across the pond. It went on to decimate world housing and job markets, indiscriminately destroy businesses both large and small and tear a chunk out of great swathes of industry.

Now, in August 2010, the world is beginning to take tentative steps back out into the light of positive equity once again. Britain, as the inexorable machine of our nation’s media informs us every day, is in a dire mess and will be for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, we've all watched in terrible fascination as the soft underbelly of the European economic bloc has been exposed and its vulnerability has become plain for all to see. It is little surprise, then, when the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) reports that:

“Property markets in the more dynamic economies of South America, Asia and Eastern Europe are outperforming those in the UK and Eurozone”

According to the RICS’s 2010 Global Property Survey for Q2, Eurozone countries including the UK, Germany, Greece and Spain are struggling while so-called emerging economies such as Brazil, Argentina, Peru and India are experiencing greatly increased occupier demand.

Well, while the British and wider European economies struggle to get back on their feet and the ‘super-populated’ countries of the developing world use their most valuable resource to good effect, Standen Homes, new property developers in the East Midlands, will quietly do their homework and take small but positive steps to ensure they weather the remaining storm. Oh, and they will of course continue to build fantastic quality new houses in Nottingham and new build homes in Derbyshire to ensure the comfort, closeness and mutual support of communities in the East Midlands and beyond, well into the future.

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Exclusive Design Packages from Standen Homes


If you’ve been house hunting before, you’ll know the feeling. You arrange a series of viewings and you look through house after house, becoming ever more crestfallen and disappointed at the fact that none of them really feel quite right. Maybe you find one or two that are head and shoulders above the rest, one of which you eventually settle for, but still there’s something out of place, something you can’t put your finger on. If you are really lucky, you’ll view a new house where you experience that sense of place and belonging that lets you know you’ve found the right one. Or perhaps you’ve found that place more than once, only to have it snapped up before you have a chance to put an offer in.

With Standen Homes, thanks to one of our exclusive packages, you can forego the waiting, the heartache and the disappointment of the above scenarios and quickly find the new house or new home that suits you.

We don’t just build identical 'lego' new houses in Nottingham that are the same throughout the region. We are very aware that people want to have a level of individuality about their new house – a sense of uniqueness. Of course, there are certain features that you would expect to find in any new home and these are all, always, provided for. But if you want to get in on the act of aiding in the design of your very own new home, we have a range of options you can take in our unique ‘Design Package’ service. Choose from a variety of interior paint colours, curtains and fitted carpets or a diverse assortment of optional extras that will give your new house the look and feel your heart desires.