Buyers want gardens

As a Surrey property development company we are often involved in the development of large properties on substantial plots where it is much easier to provide a reasonable portion of private outside space to each of our newly developed flats and houses. Living in lockdown has made everyone realise the importance of outside space, whether its access to a patio, terrace, balcony, private garden or a good piece of well designed shared communal garden being able to get outside is important. Flats and apartments without any outside space are certainly not getting as much interest from prospective buyers and likely to be of less interest and hold lower values in years to come.

When designing our new schemes, many of which have been flat conversions and new build apartments we have paid very little attention to the division of the garden space, often providing oversized gardens to the ground floor properties with smaller spaces allocated to the remaining apartments. The development pictured is an example of this, and although the communal space is substantial it could have been divided up in a more efficient way to allow private space to all flats and the ground floor flats could have managed with slightly smaller gardens.

Moving forward we are making a concerted effort to review how our external spaces are designed and especially how much private space will be allocated. Admittedly this is often harder in London Boroughs but it's made us think more about what we do and how best to design our spaces.

Our search for suitable development sites in ongoing. We are looking for residential and commercial properties to convert across Surrey and South London. We are also looking to acquire large properties & bungalows on wide plots or corner plots for our bespoke new developments and are looking to make contact with homeowners who along with their neighbouring homeowners would be interested in disposing of parts of unused rear gardens for small housing development on a subject to planning basis.

We welcome all direct enquiries from agents and homeowners. If you have a property or piece of land you wish to discuss in complete confidence and without obligation then please visit our contact page or drop us an email matt@spring-developments.com Send us your contact details and we will get in contact with you straight away.