Keepers Wood, Wentworth

Keepers Wood, Wentworth £4,450,000

Keeper’s Wood is set within 0.7 acres of south facing rear gardens in a highly sought after road on the prestigious Wentworth Estate, in Virginia Water, Surrey.

The property includes marble floored entrance hall, large combined kitchen / breakfast / family area with walk-in larder and second cloakroom. Linked dining and drawing room opening onto terrace, a spacious guest cloakroom, TV end and study complete downstairs.

First floor has 4 en-suite bedrooms. The master bedroom suite is beautifully appointed and includes a centre, free standing bath, TV, bespoke twin basin vanity unit, super-sized walk in wet room and separate wc and bidet. The master bedroom has double doors with a glass Juliet balcony overlooking the rear garden.
Top floor has a further bedroom, bathroom and a leisure room with mini kitchen.

For further details of the properties for sale in Wentworth Estate or Sunningdale, please contact Barton Wyatt.

Retail Window Dressing - Tips On How To Provide The Best Visual Merchandising Services

If you are a retailer or a small business owner then you must be looking for visual merchandising services in order to promote your business. This doesn’t actually mean that you focus your energies towards offering discounted prices on your products and services or making seasonal offers for the products but providing positive shopping experiences for the shoppers and generating interests and sales. Implementing a retailwindow dressing policy basically means that you have a silent salesperson that is constantly at work.

Unfortunately the art of visual merchandising is neglected by most small business owners who wear many hats every day such as being a salesperson, an accountant, marketing manager, recruiter, trainer and decorator. The beautiful thing about investing in outsourcing the visual merchandising services to a third party (an expert in visual merchandising) is that you will be able to free up enough time to concentrate on the core issues of the business. Moreover, the expert is well trained or better still has an outstanding experience in offering nothing but the best window dressing policies for your business within a short period of time. Here are some of the most important tips that you should consider using in transforming your business so as to ensure that it becomes competitive and better than those of your competitors.

Firstly, you ought to make sure that you have a plan that will give you a working formula. Before you do anything, take time to make a visual merchandising plan. Although you may think that since your retail store is too small and thus you don’t need to plan big before executing the project, a good plan will enable you to play a game of dominos. In other words you’ll move one item and the unforeseen effects will begin as you proceed. As a matter of fact, your plan can include but not limited to jotting down a few bullet points or designing a detailed description of what you think is best for your policy.

All you need is a good understanding of the fundamentals & principles of designing a credible shop window dressing display. The window dressing designers actually follow these principles in achieving those amazing themes you see in front of your competitors’ stores.

The elements and principles of design that you should focus are getting the perfect line direction, shape, size, color, tone and texture of an artistic design. Furthermore, some visual merchandising services not only guarantee increased sales but some aspect of aesthetics that compliments a retail store and making it more attractive to both new and existing customers.

Berkshire roofing services- Choose the best quality and style!

Berkshire roofing services provide assistance for all kinds of commercial and residential exterior enhancements. The companies providing these services have great experience in product knowledge, integrity and customer service in providing the best customer satisfaction.

Roofs are something that creates an impression on the viewer about the building. They not only protect your house but also make the premises attractive and appealing. The specialists in Berkshire will make sure that you get all the necessary components that are required to enhance the longevity of the house. This includes roofing felts, , roofing drip, chimney flashings and rake flashings. Your roofing system will also be completed with a special attic vent. Other services that Berkshire provides include steel roofing, shingle roofing, roof flashing, inspections and tile roof repair.

Roofing services Berkshire hire roofers that are trained and skilled in roofing field, each being responsible for a specific task. Each contractor makes sure that the project is run efficiently so that the job is done within time and according to your terms. The supervisors also monitor the project in such a way that each job provides high quality results. The work is incorporated in full compliance to the Berkshire laws so that the customers are assured that they have given the project to the right company.

Further, the roofers provide a high level of customer service. They use the material that is of top quality and ensures the durability of the roof. They have skills to install all kinds of components including shingles, which make the roof intact and firm. They also specialize in installing copper gutters, galvanized steels, downspouts and seamless aluminium. They can repair, install or replace any kind of roof in according with their customer’s need and wants.

Roofers in Berkshire adapt professionalism in their work, thus providing suggestions and advice so that you can make the right choice. With their advice, you can easily decide whether your roof needs replacement or just an improvement to enhance its longevity. Roofers with their experience will assist their customers in identifying their housing needs so that you can get the best roof that will be known for its longevity.

2013 house prices to little change

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Virginia Water

UK house prices rose on the month in November, and are expected to be little changed over the course of 2013, U.K. lender Halifax said Thursday. “Conditions in the housing market have been largely unchanged over the past 12 months with little overall movement in either house prices or sales for the second consecutive year,” said Martin Ellis, the Halifax’s housing economist.

“This stability is remarkable given the poor domestic economic climate and the considerable uncertainty regarding the prospects for both the UK and world economies.” House prices rose 1.0% on the month in November and were 1.3% lower when compared with a year earlier. That compares with drops of 0.1% on the month and 1.7% on the year in November.

The figure was considerably stronger than analysts’ estimates of a 0.2% rise and broke a four month run of falling prices. The lender’s figures were considerably more bullish than those from the Nationwide, which reported house prices were flat in November. Specifically Halifax said it forecasts a change in U.K. house prices of between a fall of 2% and an increase of 2% over the course of next year.

The lender also reported that in the three months to November, house prices were 0.7% lower than in the three months to August, compared with a 1.0% decline in the three months to October. “However, we suspect that any significant, sustainable turnaround in house prices is still some way off.” It was a similar message from Blerina Uruci at Barclays. “So far, supply restrictions and accommodative monetary policy have provided some support to the housing market and prevented prices from falling significantly,” she said. 

Halifax also said that while the economic outlook remains challenging, there are some signs that the Funding for Lending Scheme that rewards banks who increase their lending levels to consumers and small businesses with access to cheaper lending rates. But, the lender warns their outlook is closely tied to the uncertain outlook for the U.K.. “The outlook for the U.K. economy remains highly uncertain. Risks in the global economy remain significant and how these evolve will be key determinants of how activity in the U.K. progresses over the coming year,” Mr. Ellis said.

Rent reaches record high

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Virginia Water Estate Agents

The cost of renting hit a record high of £734 a month in August after five consecutive months of rising prices. Average rents in England and Wales rose by 1.2% compared with the previous month, according statistics from LSL Property Services. The average cost of renting is now 2.9% higher than it was 12 months ago, causing rents to rise to record highs in five regions of the country.

London tenants have been worse hit, with rent rising at a rate of 4.9% since August 2011.

Meanwhile, renters in the South East have seen price rising at a rate of 3.9% during the same period.

Wales and the South West are the only two regions where rents have fallen in the past year.

David Brown, commercial director of LSL Property Services, says: “The rental market is right in the thick of its peak season, and the demand from graduates and those starting new jobs has added a new layer of competition on top of the existing pool of frustrated buyers.”

For further information on Virginia Water as well as Letting and Sales market in Surrey, please contact Barton Wyatt.

London Luxury-Home Prices Rise on Lower-Taxed Property

Provided by Barton Wyatt Letting Agents Sunningdale

Luxury-home prices in central London rose at their fastest rate in three months in September, powered by demand for properties that escape a new higher rate of sales tax, Knight Frank LLP said. The average value of a house or apartment in the U.K. capital’s most expensive neighborhoods climbed 0.7 percent from August, according to an index compiled by the London-based broker. The annual increase was 10 percent compared with a 13- month low of 9.9 percent in August.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne raised sales tax for properties valued at more than 2 million pounds ($3.25 million) to 7 percent from 5 percent starting in April. The number of homes sold that weren’t subject to the higher levy rose by 23 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier. That lifted prices in the bracket by about 12 percent, Knight Frank said.

“London’s market performance continues to be aided by overseas buyers, who account for more than 50 percent of buyers in the 2 million-pound plus market,” Liam Bailey, Knight Frank’s head of residential research, said today in a statement.

Russian, Indian, Italian, U.S. and French nationals were the biggest buyers from overseas, the broker said. Foreign buyers accounted for 41 percent of prime London homes purchased for 1 million pounds or more.

Values have risen 51 percent to a record since March 2009, the low point for London’s prime residential market after the financial crisis, according to the report.

Knight Frank compiles the index from its own appraisal values of a sample of properties in the 13 most expensive central London neighbourhoods, such as Belgravia, Mayfair, Kensington and Knightsbridge.

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Basic Window Dressing Rules to Make More Sales

Are you aware of the latest trend in the retail industry? Why do you think that the retailers are focusing on developing effective visual merchandising? Why is there such a high demand for the visual merchandisers?

The visual merchandising is the latest market norm and its demand is increasing at an accelerating rate. The concept “Visual merchandising” can be best described as the art and strategy of displaying the merchandise in the manner that has an aesthetic appeal that draws the attention of the customers towards the retail store. It basically sets the merchandise of the store in a way that customers get attracted to the retail store and enhance their shopping experience by visiting the store.

In order to develop an effective visual merchandising in the store, the store owners are looking for skilled visual merchandisers who know the art of enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the retail store. The professional needs to be creative and talented so that he can place all the merchandise in proper way so that the customers get attracted to the aesthetic appeal of the store. Hence, the experts need to have passion for design, creativity and innovation so that they can make sure that they are talented and highly skilled visual merchandiser.

Retail Window Dressing

The main visual merchandising duties comprise of working on every aspect of the retail store from the placement of the merchandise to the promotion offers on the merchandise. Therefore, the professional will need to work on attractive window displays, creative signs, aesthetic interior displays and other types of sales promotions that should be offered to the customers. Hence, the professional will have to ensure that everything is properly coordinated which means that the color of the store should be complemented with the display of the products and the stage of the retail shop.

Hence, the professional will also be up-to-date with the fashion world and must be aware of the changes happening in the dynamic environment and market so that the changes can be incorporated effectively. Therefore, the visual merchandisers will have to make sure that they are aware of the latest market trends and they must ensure that everything is coordinated and strategy must be properly designed and implemented.