With some of the first owners now settling into West Acre Park in Ryde, Captiva Homes is celebrating the news that more than 80% of reservations so far are from existing Island residents – 45% from the Ryde area alone.
Andrew Titmuss, Head of Sales and Marketing for Captiva, has said:
“Our West Acre Park development really was built by local people for local people.
Article continues below this advertisement “More than 50% of our sales have been to first time buyers with a real need, and with the use of new build schemes we have been able to sell homes to local people at prices as low as £105,000.
“With one, two, three and four-bedroom houses on the first phase and an overall average price currently just below £250,000 – the same as the average sold price on the Isle of Wight last year – there really is something for everyone.
“Despite the difficulties of the last year, we genuinely cannot keep up with the demand which really shows that people want and need local homes.”
Mark and Charlene Augustus, together with Jason and Shelley Clabon, took advantage of a scheme the Island housebuilder introduced to help key frontline workers. Mark and Jason are both Ryde firefighters and were looking for more affordable space local to the fire station for their growing families.
James Pink, Director at Captiva Homes, said:
“Our key worker scheme was a huge success, and we’ve seen local buyers from transport workers to carers and NHS staff benefitting from it.”
Mr Clabon said:
“We were living in rented accommodation in Ryde and really wanted to buy a house locally. We have loved the blank canvas of a new build. These had larger gardens than typical new builds, which was a big plus for us.
“It is so homely and welcoming. We love the size of it and our little boy loves the garden. We also love that we are set back from the main roads but still close enough to shops and other places.”
Mrs Augustus said:
“It was the style of the homes that first attracted us to the development. Then we were surprised by the amount of space you get – the homes aren’t all crammed in on top of each other. It feels spacious, but cosy, and the finish is to a high standard. It’s going to be a great place for our two boys to grow up.”
Islanders buying houses on the island?
And nobody has anything to comment?
Proper Gander innit!
Well I’m so glad to hear islanders are reaping the benefits. The feedback from purchasers sounds very good. A builder who plans the site well and doesn’t cram as many rabbit hutches in as he can gets my thumbs up! Well done.
Hang on, it says a new build £105k, then goes on to say one, two and three bed house from just under £250k…. so what does one get for £105k…a shed ?
I think you will find that 250K is the overall average price, the lowest being 105K.
No you get a coach house and it’s shared owner ship and a reasonable size to well done captiva for providing homes for islanders
105k gets you shared ownership of a 175k 2 bed coach house.
Look at their site, over priced housing once again for the young islanders.
Total farce.
Islander or mainlander, it is unacceptable to build on land that has been in agricultural use for centuries. Dairy farmland on the Island should be protected, or there will be no dairy farms left within a short number of years. Please don’t forget this news story is just the developer attempting to justify to the Island planning committee that destroying the rest of Westridge farm and building on a perfectly good farmland is a good idea! It isn’t. And this is shortly to be debated by the Island planning committee. Once the farm is gone, it is gone forever. Island planning need to realise this and support a community farm for the future.
I take it that where you live has been a built up urban area since the Jurassic period, yes?
This is a nice sentiment but is there really a queue of people waiting to take over a dairy farm? I would guess not otherwise someone would have made an offer by now. There is, however, a queue of people wanting to buy houses. So, what happens when it’s simply uneconomical to carry on farming? I think any of us would, if we were honest, sell the land for the highest price to whoever came along just the same as we do with our own properties. But, maybe if you fancy being a farmer, make them an offer for the rest of the land and give it a go?
catherine – their are not great swathes of islanders in shop doorways, homeless and with cash – so no, there is no queue of people waiting to buy houses.
there is a climate emergency according to the council – this means we need to be planting more trees and building less houses – that dairy farm land, can be used to create a forest, that extracts CO2 from the atmosphere and puts more oxygen into the atmosphere.
More houses, just put more CO2 into the air, more pollution, more gridlock, more rubbish, more environmental damage and having them built is in contrast to the climate emergency the council announced.
pink is just an environmental terrorist, concreting over the CO2 removing plant life, destroying the habitats of birds, animals and insects to line his own pocket
cut down on immigration, cut down of taxpayer funded house moves and cut benefit sponging – that will free up a lot of houses across the country.
Absolutely