BULLETIN Autumn 2012

RIGHTMOVE REPORTING: What's the

World's Olympic lull contributes to Biggest Coffee largest ever August price drop Morning August July Average Property Asking Price £236,260 £242,097

% Change in Month - -2.4% -1.7% about? % Change in Past Year +2.0% +2.3% Monthly Index (Jan 2002=100) 192.2 197.0 The staff at F&D were right behind this years New sellers’ drop asking prices by an average of 2.4%, th event on Friday 28 September to help raise as the largest August fall Rightmove has ever recorded. much as we can for Macmillan cancer support. Olympics fail to deter new sellers – marginally more We incorporated a cake day and a raffle of prizes, properties coming to market than in August 2011, increasing pressure on sellers to compete on price to kindly donated by local businesses, including attract scarce summer buyers. vouchers for Quattro restaurant, beauty Home -hunters disengaged from their property search treatments & products, massages, a golf day at activity at key moments during the Olympics, with Mapledurham & childrens gifts. opening and closing ceremonies and ‘Super Saturday’ seeing plunges of up to 50% in Rightmove traffic. The final total we raised came to £276.55 With average time on the market at 92 days, Kathryn Fell Photo @Fellsie@farmeranddyer - nice to drop in engaging buyer interest is key to selling before Christmas. F&D’s average selling time on Rightmove is today for the Macmillian cancer support coffee morning, very

tasty cupcake too! :0) 77 days.

Buyers identify dirty kitchens and bathrooms as their The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer biggest turnoffs; is sellers’ challenge for the autumn Support's biggest fundraising event. We ask people across the selling season to ‘get the Marigolds on’? UK - and sometimes further afield - to hold a coffee morning, where donations on the day are made to Macmillan. In 2011, 51,000 people signed up to coffee morning, raising a record £10 MORE NEW HOMES FOR F&D million.

Farmer & Dyer How did it start? The event started in 1990, when a local fundraising committee decided to hold a coffee morning where have been people came along to meet and mingle - as they might ordinarily instructed by do - but donate the cost of their coffee to Macmillan in the T A Fisher to sell process. their superb brand new The idea seemed such a simple, yet effective one that they townhouses and suggested the model be taken up nationally. The first National semi detached World’s Biggest Coffee Morning was in 1991, when 2,600 houses in people registered to hold coffee mornings across the country. Since then it has raised over £60 million in total for Macmillan Symeon Place Tom Dyer & Justin Plank Cancer Support. off St Peters Hill For Sale - Four 4 bedroom 3 storey in Caversham houses Many thanks to Perry’s Beauty, AW Cycles, Le Masseur Heights. Prices are from £525,000 to £565,000 Personnel, Mapledurham Health Club, Quattro Restaurant, 116 Exiles FC, Koltrane Lighting, Make & Do, Jade’s Beauty, Byde Heating & Kimberley’s Hair Studio for their kind donations.

cake and and you have a count up to

GOLDEN GIRL

A nother good news story, with congratulations going to Caversham based, Helen Glover, who on the 1st of August 2012 with her team mate Heather Stanning, won the gold medal for the women’s coxless pairs at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. This was Team GB 's first gold medal of London 2012, and a first ever Olympic gold medal Helen Glover for British women's rowing.

OUT & ABOUT

Sometimes there are places right under our noses that we don’t realise or appreciate where they are. A great example of this is the nature reserve at Clayfield Copse. Clayfield Copse and Blackhouse Wood are located on the northern outskirts of Reading, on the Berkshire and border, and More hits per day than ever before on the Farmer & Dyer website. More hits = more sales consist of open meadows and native woodland. Some of the woodland is actively managed as hazel coppice COMING SOON whilst the meadows include areas of wild flowers and Crayshaw Court regenerating woodland. 54 apartments built by McCarthy & Stone and located in The site was Reading's first local nature reserve and in part is School Lane, central Caversham. designated as containing service trees, wild pear, bluebells, common orchids, wood anemones, etc. If you are interested in these retirement properties then contact us Approximately eight hectares in size, the site is the only outcrop on 0118 9461800 for more details. of London Clay north of the Thames River in Reading and makes up the southern tip of the Chilterns.

Isolated specimens of cedar and Scots pine date back to the time when the site was part of - the mansion house Follow us! is now home to the BBC world wide monitoring station. For all our latest property Working with , the Friends of news & views Clayfield Copse endeavour to ensure that the site remains a haven for wildlife for this and future generations.

The Friends of Clayfield Copse are now part of the Econet Conservation Group. You can find us at ‘farmeranddyer’ Source: http://www.econetreading.org.uk/clayfield/

FUNDRAISING UPDATE………

We have now raised £655 for this years nominated charity, The Caversham NHS First Responders. A worthy local cause who are dedicated to responding immediately to 999 calls, alongside the ambulance service, to patients with life threatening conditions solely in the RG4 location of Caversham & .