Home of the Day – Apartment at Smitham Yard, The Oakwood Group

The WhatHouse? team reports on our current favourite new build home for sale – today, it’s a lovely two-bedroom apartment at Smitham Yard, which The Oakwood Group is offering in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon.

Flat 30 is currently the top-of-the-range available home at Smitham Court and offers a generous 779 sq ft of living space for a price tag of £435,000 – and until 15 December 2020, it is available on the current version of London Help to Buy, which needs a deposit of just 5% and provides an equity loan of 40% of the price. Off the hallway are the bathroom, bedroom one (a large room with the bonus of an en suite shower room), a sizeable second double bedroom, two very useful storage cupboards and finally the open-plan kitchen/dining living room. The kitchen units, the full set of appliances and worktops are along one wall, leaving plenty of flexible space for other furniture. At the far end is plenty of glazing for natural light including a sliding door to a large balcony.

This unit comes with a 125-year lease, an estimated service charge of £1067.99 per annum and a ground rent of £325 per annum. And like every property here, there’s lift access and it is well served for working from home with its fibre-optic broadband connection with the potential for super-fast speeds up to 1GB.

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Smitham Yard is now 75% reserved, but there are still a number of one- and two-bedroom units available, priced from £300,000. These homes are located just moments from Coulsdon Town mainline station, which offers a journey time of approximately 40 minutes to London Victoria. Coulsdon South station is a 10-minute walk from the development and services from there take around 20 minutes to get to/from London Bridge. A short journey to the south brings you to thef Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, perfect for walks and cycle rides.

Find out more about Smitham Yard from The Oakwood Group.

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