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PROPERTY FOR RENT
Listings are generally posted for 21 days (renewable) unless otherwise requested.
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OFFERED

25/7/10
HOUSE TO RENT
Spacious Victorian terraced house in Central Lancaster.
Recently renovated and decorated to a high standard with new kitchen.
4 bedrooms, 3 receptions and large kitchen. Cellar. Yard at rear. On street parking.
Quiet one-way residential street handy for railway station, canal walks / cyclepath, schools and town centre.
Enquiries please tel: 07703925183

WANTED

01/06/10
OFF-ROAD PARKING WANTED
I'm an active disabled person who can only travel lying flat (back injury) seeking off-road parking or garage to rent or buy for a vehicle (hi-top Transit van sized) adapted for me so I can get out and about.
Do you have driveway or unused space with access or a lock-up garage to sell or rent?
Anywhere in Regent, Portland, Blades, Queen Streets or Dallas Road area of Lancaster would be fine.
Happy to discuss terms, conditions, trial periods etc.
Please call Jeff on 01524 33410 or email jeff[AT]lancaster. me.uk.

PROPERTY FOR SALE
Listings are generally posted for 1 month (renewable) unless otherwise requested. This is a free service but a donation via PayPal is appreciated.

14/7/10
MORECAMBE (York Bridge area)
3 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE
Traditional 1930's 3 bedroom semi-detached in a quiet residential area within a few minutes walking distance of local shops, bus routes, schools, doctors surgeries & 15 mins walk from the town centre & promenade.
The property benefits from full gas central heating, part d/glazing, loft & cavity wall insulation & has a long, mature rear garden, front garden, drive & good sized garage.
The house requires modernisation which includes rewiring & a dampcourse to bring it up to todays standards.
Comprising
Entrance Hall & staircase
2 Reception Rooms, the rear room extended to 21 ft
Kitchen
Upstairs
Bedrooms: 2 Double ; 1 Single
Bathroom, recently refurbished incl. overbath electric shower.
There is 'no chain' & the property is for sale for offers over £100,000
Contact: email: fmt@fransmail.myzen.co.uk
Tel. 01524 406155

WANTED

01/06/10
OFF-ROAD PARKING WANTED
I'm an active disabled person who can only travel lying flat (back injury) seeking off-road parking or garage to rent or buy for a vehicle (hi-top Transit van sized) adapted for me so I can get out and about.
Do you have driveway or unused space with access or a lock-up garage to sell or rent?
Anywhere in Regent, Portland, Blades, Queen Streets or Dallas Road area of Lancaster would be fine.
Happy to discuss terms, conditions, trial periods etc.
Please call Jeff on 01524 33410 or email jeff[AT]lancaster. me.uk.

BUSINESS

The Storey Creative Industries Centre
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH, (nr The Train Station). Tel: 01524 509000.
After a £3million renovation project, The Storey Creative Industries Centre (SCIC) is what Lancaster has been longing for; The building where art and industry spark.
Based in one of Lancaster’s finest Grade 2 listed buildings, The SCIC contains a theatrical auditorium, lecture theatre, tasting gardens, rentable offices, workshop spaces and meeting rooms - giving room to house all the many different events covered throughout the year.
With the NICE café bar & restaurant on the ground floor, providing a cosy courtyard with which to take your drinks on, this building really does provide Lancaster, and the whole of the North West with a creative platform from which to work.

CO-OPS

1/8/09
Lancaster Co-Housing
It's happening. Lancaster Cohousing have bought land alongside the River Lune at Halton.  Join us to create and live in an exciting new eco cohousing development. 
For more information see our website www.lancastercohousing.org.uk

ESTATE AGENTS / PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

• Adamson's Property Management
New Business Opportunities @ Plaza Buildings, Morecambe  
We have shop premises ready to let now at very affordable and competitive rates.
Based in Morecambe town centre opposite a car park, with additional ample free parking within walking distance. Great location. Morecambe has excellent potential for businesses. Morecambe will grow and become more popular, therefore letting your business flourish.
Interested ?
Contact Sarah on 07506233606
Email: sarah.adamsonspropertymanagement@hotmail.co.uk

• Armstrong Property Services
29-31 Victoria Street, Morecambe
Tel: 01524 400406

• Aspden Gallagher
58 Market Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 843322

• Bairstow Eves
12 New Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 62901 Also offices in Morecambe and Carnforth.
Zoe Swiderski writes (January 2003) that she found Bairstow helpful (although we have known them to be very keen to sell their financial services along with a house)

• Bradford & Bingley Entwhistle Green
67/71 Market Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 842000
Particularly useless: not one of the houses we ever asked for details on which involved them actually posting something to us ever arrived. Hopeless.

• Sue Bridges
China Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 698811 Fax 01524 844277
Established in 1988, Sue Bridges Estate Agents have moved to larger premises to cater for the growth of our successful all-female estate agents. "Our estate agents and financial advice centre are renowned throughout the area for their friendly, personal and individual advice."

• Complete-Move Conveyancing
Suites 10-11, Church House, 96 Church Street, Lancaster LA1 1TD
Tel: 01524 848849 Fax 01524 382950
E-mail: conveyancing @complete-move.com
Regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers to provide Conveyancing Services

• Farrell Hayworth
53a Market Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 842222
3-7 Victoria Street, Morecambe Tel: 01524 832929
26 Market Street, Carnforth Tel: 01524 736777

• Fisher Wrathall
The Old Warehouse, Castle Hill, Lancaster LA1 1YN, Tel: 01524 68822, Fax: 01524 64221
E-mail: property@fisherwrathall.co.uk
Offers homes for sale and rent in North Lancashire, Cumbria, and North West Yorkshire. Also features a Commercial Property Agency, and a Survey and Valuation practice.

• Fish4Homes
Property/accommodation site

• Halifax Estate Agents
25 New Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 843043

• Melrose Quality Homes
Moon Bay Wharf, Barrows Lane, Heysham
Tel: 01524 855550

• Ratcliffe & Bibby Solicitors and Estate Agents
69/71 Church Street, Lancaster Tel. 1524 844111. Also offices in Arnside, Carnforth and Morecambe

• Reeds Rains
Market Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 63494

John Freeman writes: "The best advice I can give to anyone seeking to buy a house in Lancaster is: come and stay here first and do the rounds of the estate agents regularly. When we moved back here a few years ago we found that all of them were pretty terrible about updating us on possible houses when we were seeking to buy, and when properties we were seeking to buy did come up we only found about them by visiting their offices. Quite frankly, I'm amazed some of them are still in business, let alone that they actually sell any houses.
"We found Sue Bridges and Ratcliffe and Bibby to be the best in our quest: all the houses they offered us were in the right ball park and the right price and they were very helpful.

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

Let Students
Lancaster Student Property Management & Lettings Agency.

Studenthousinglist.com
Exactly what it says on the label

Yellow Door Lets

• Leece Property Rental: Top of the range student accommodation at an average rent. Tel: 01524 389993

Satori writes: When I first came to Lancaster as a student I knew nothing about the town, or property, so I stayed on campus at first. In a tiny box where I could hear every detail of my neigbours' lives from 4 sides. One day I wondered down to Bailrigg House and was assailed by the scents of grass and trees and the sound of birdsong. I realised I had spent weeks in a concrete battery-farm in the sole company of my peers.

I found a cool pair of friends who also fancied 'leaving home' (again) and we found a house on Hubert Place in Lancaster. The hot water tank used to boil over if we forgot to turn it off and the fridge worked by gas! It was cheaper than campus though, I had a huge room with a fire, a double bed and a big sash window, a garden, a cosy living room and my first ever pet, a mad stray cat who learned to love me. The front directly overlooked the City football field so we had no problem getting gentleman callers on a saturday afternoon, which led to some fun saturday nights....

We had neighbours, there were children, older people, cats and dogs. We discovered that about half the townies you see tromping about the place also have degrees and lives and look on their student neigbours with some amusement and sympathy. Lancaster is a tiny city with two massive universities and that has completely swung the demographic.

In my final year I moved into a local farmhouse with a bunch of friends. Since then we have all lived, literally all over the globe aned gone in completely diverse directions. But I treasure my memories of those days and our friendship - they have strengthened me in every way and the bond has never faded in me.

And some of us have floated back to Lancaster, because there are many good people here and you can live a good life.

Lancaster University has far more student accomodation now and it's tempting to just stay in the student package like a tourist on a break and dodge the stronger flavours of community life.

Will you get ripped off if you rent a house in town? It's very unlikely and if should actually happen it won't be for long or for much. Will you get ripped off if you stay on campus? You'll pay a lot more for a lot less. And you'll miss out on essential life skills you need to have mastered long before you go on to that big job-hunt in the sky.

Chat to your neighbours. They're not stupid, it's just that they think you're kids and they're trying to keep it simple. Say hi in the street. Nod and smile. they do it with each other all the time. Ask what day the bins are collected and win massive brownie points. They won't bite you and they won't want to take advantage cos they already know you're skint, busy and temporary. That way, when you have your big crazy party they'll be glad you're having a bit of harmless fun instead of calling the police to bust you all.

If you have a car learn to park it neatly like your neighbours park and always leave space for a fire engine to pass. Don't dump bags of rubbish in the back alleys for your neighbours to have to deal with because no-body else will.

Be a householder. Join the world. Make the rules. Be real.