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Domestic real estate represented the largest non-financial asset in the UK, with a net worth of £5.1trillion (2014). [3] Foreign investment plays a substantial role in the UK's real estate market, particularly in London, and foreign companies and individuals invested around £20billion in UK real estate in 2012. [4] [needs update]
PrimeLocation.com is a UK property portal owned by ZPG Ltd that lists properties in the UK and abroad. It was founded in 2001 by a group of 200 UK estate agents. It accepts property listings only from estate agents, letting agents and property developers.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
In 2011, a 518-foot (158 m) wind turbine, the UK's largest, was built in the town to provide power for Dewlay, a local factory producing the award-winning Garstang Blue cheese. [14] [15] The local newspaper, the Garstang Courier, is available on tape free of charge to blind and partially-sighted people from Galloway's Society for the Blind.
A modern Indian bungalow in an affluent area near Bangalore, Karnataka, India The Manale Tea Bungalow, one of the oldest bungalows in Kerala, India In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to any single-family unit, as opposed to an apartment building , which is the norm for Indian middle-class city living.
It lies immediately south of Garstang town centre, on the opposite bank of the River Wyre. It is bounded by the Lancaster Canal to the south and west. Garstang, Bonds, Bowgreave and Catterall form an almost continuous built-up area, which was bypassed by the A6 road in 1928. [1] (Some sources state, incorrectly, that this occurred in 1926. [2]).
In Bowgreave there is the Garstang Community Academy, formerly known as Garstang High School, and an eighteen-hole golf course, near the Best Western Hotel. The former village pub, the Kenlis Arms Hotel, a former hunting-lodge built in 1856, adjacent to the site of the former Garstang and Catterall railway station, closed in 2022. [2] [3]
The district had its origins in the Garstang Poor Law Union, which had been created in 1837, covering Garstang itself and several surrounding parishes.In 1872 sanitary districts were established, giving public health and local government responsibilities to the existing boards of guardians for the rural parts of their poor law unions that were not already covered by an urban authority.