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Carver Residential have joined forces with Agents' Mutual Ltd to form a brand new property portal “On The Market” which launches on January 26th and will be backed by a national TV advertising campaign. Thousands of the UK's leading estate and lettings agents have taken a stake in the company and this number is growing all the time. The aim is simple: to create the very best property search experience for consumers.

OnTheMarket.com will be a new place to view hundreds of thousands of properties to buy or rent all over the UK.

Every property will be on offer from locally based estate or letting agents.

So whether you’re looking to buy, rent, sell or let a property, you know that you’ll be dealing with local experts who you can meet face-to-face.

With a simple, uncluttered search function and exclusive content, we hope you’ll agree: if you’re in the market, you’ll need to visit OnTheMarket.com. 

It's been a busy year at Carver Residential and to help us get into the Christmas spirit and to help raise money for TFM radio's Cash For Kids, we had a Christmas Jumper Day!

On 16th December all staff donned their festive woolies and donated &1 to help towards buying a gift for disadvantaged children to make their Christmas a little bit brighter. 

The day was a success with &65 being raised for the charity through the donations and through selling mince pies and Christmas cake within the company! 

With it being the season of goodwill Nick & Gordon have very generously matched the amount raised so altogether we were able to give a fantastic &130 to the charity.

To find out more about the charity visit http://www.tfmradio.com/charity/

  Find out a little about 2 members of our team each month!

  Rachel Carver - Sales Advisor

  What is your favourite food? Easily pleased, beans and cheese on toast :)

  What is your favourite holiday destination? Fiji is amazing!

  Who would you most like to meet? Lee Evans, he would have me in stiches!

  Favourite band or artist ? Ed Sheeran at the moment, love his album

  Favourite drink? Cosmopolitan

  Favourite film star? Channing Tatum, need I say why?

  Hobbies/sport? Running, netball and dancing until the early hours

  Favourite quote? If the whole world was blind how many people would you impress?

  Kay Evans - Personal Assistant

  What is your favourite food ? Blue cheese

  What is your ideal holiday destination? Any European City

  Who would you most like to meet? The bloke from Camelot presenting me with my lottery cheque

  Favourite band or artist? Take That

  Favourite drink? Kir Royale/Diet Coke

  Favourite film star? Tom Cruise back in the day

  Hobbies/sport? Too many to list

  Favourite quote? If in doubt, do nowt!

Following the success of last years competition and the amount of entries we received we are pleased to announce the following winners and runners up. The prizes are gift vouchers for WH Smiths and are to be split equally between the school and winner.

Age Group 4-6
1st Prize &100 Shayne Lee Sunnybrow School
2nd Prize &50 Eva Ibbotson Hamsterley Primary
3rd Prize &25 Konrad Blake Croft on Tees
Age Group 7-8
1st Prize &100 Matthew Horn Hamsterley Primary
2nd Prize &50 Jessica Harrison Croft on Tees
3rd Prize &25 Oliver Bellwood St Marys School
Age Group 9-11
1st Prize &100 Elsa Butler Croft on Tees
2nd Prize &50 Tara Crakehall School
3rd Prize &25 Ned Reed Crakehall School
Overall Winners
1st Prize &200 James Bowron St Marys School
2nd Prize &180 Thomas Bothbank St Marys School
3rd Prize &130 Ben Whitfield St Marys School

A special gold star award goes to Miss Hodgson aged 28 from Northwood Primary School.

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to all winners. A prize giving ceremony was held on Saturday 29th November 2014 12 noon at the Arthaus Gallery in Richmond. Prizes were presented by Mackenzie Thorpe himself as pictured with the winners and James Carver.

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Congratulations to Lee Dodsworth who won the luxury Christmas food and wine hamper provided by Simply Thankyou.

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Buying and selling a property can be daunting, however young or old you are. At Carver Residential we have the experience and local knowledge to help you through it - we also have friendly staff who will be more than happy to answer any question you have, however trivial it may be!

If you have a property to sell you will meet with one of our experienced valuers (who are also lovely, but we are biased!). They will discuss your needs, circumstances and requirements for selling the property and look to work with you to tailor a package that works best for you.

We have a team of sales advisors working to find you the perfect property if you are looking to buy, and to find you the perfect buyer if you are looking to sell.

When a sale is agreed you will be looked after by our dedicated sales progression team who will work to ensure the sale runs as smoothly and quickly as possible.

For more reasons to choose Carver Residential visit our website or click here

If you are looking to buy or sell a property now or in the future there have been some big changes to stamp duty, which will benefit buyers and sellers alike.

The new thresholds from the 4th December 2014 are as follows;

No tax on the first &125,000 paid

2% on the portion up to &250,000

5% up to &925,000

10% up to &1.5 million

12% on everything above that.


Under the old rules, you would have paid tax at a single rate on the entire property price. Now you will only pay the rate of tax on the part of the property price within each tax band - like income tax.

E.g. Previously if you paid &275,000 for a property, you would pay &8250 tax, however under the new rules you would only pay &3750 tax.

Previously the stamp duty thresholds were as follows;

No tax on the first &125,000 paid

1% up to &250,000

3% up to &500,000

5% anything over &500,000


House sellers - this could potentially make it easier to sell your property particularly if you are near a stamp duty threshold as it could be far less stamp duty to pay for your buyers. E.g if your house is on the market for &135,000, you know you would accept &130,000, but you are receiving offers of no more than &125,000 because of the stamp duty, potential buyers will only need to pay &100 in stamp duty (instead of &1,300) to buy the house at &130,000.

House buyers - you could increase your budget! As stamp duty is money you need to have available and cannot be added to a mortgage, your deposit could increase, unlocking other mortgage deals that may have not been available previously!

To find out more about stamp duty and how it affects you contact us today on 01325 357807 to speak to one of our sales team or click here for more information from HMRC.

Carver Residential Estate Agents