Swap Surrey for Cheshire: why the North West s property market is soaring
Lower house prices and easy commuting, plus more working from home, have made the North West s rural pockets a popular option with buyers
3 May 2021 • 5:00am
This grand five-bedroom house in Clitheroe, Lancashire, has a separate annexe, plus four reception rooms, a large garden and views over Pendle Hill. It is £1.2m with Fine & Country
Often overlooked or stereotyped, the North West is now soaring in popularity with buyers looking for country homes, making it one of the hottest property markets in the country.
As more people are able to stretch their commutes by working from home for some or all of the week, many are now looking to the area to take advantage of significant house price differences.
Cool facility: Ice therapy corner
Imagine living in a spa. Well, almost.
This Tanah Merah condo has a Steam Room which starts to feel kind of basic when you find out that they also have an Ice Therapy Corner where the shaved ice cleans the pores of your skin, reduces wrinkles and boosts skin radiance, leaving you totally refreshed .
In short, makes you feel
shiok lor on a 32 degrees Celsius afternoon, we guess.
They also have a Himalayan Salt Room.
For those into this type of thing (and also into singing bowls, healing crystals and anything Gwyneth Paltrow sells), anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory salt bricks will recharge your mind, body and spirit, and keep you alive long enough to pay off your mortgage.
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Resale prices for condos up for 7th consecutive month
The highest transacted price for a private resale unit last month was $25 million for an apartment at The Marq on Paterson Hill. TNP FILE PHOTO
Sale volumes also increase; in contrast, sales of new condominiums dip
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There was no let-up in the private resale market last month, with condominium unit prices and sale numbers both up.
Resale prices rose 1 per cent from January - their seventh consecutive month of growth - and were up 4.4 per cent over February last year.
Buyers were out in force as well with sale volumes increasing by 0.4 per cent from January to 1,399 units, making last month the eighth straight month when more than 1,000 resale apartments were sold.
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