Self-build or custom build – what’s best for you?
Gus spoke to SelfBuild & Design magazine for their March 2020 issue about the pros and cons of each route, and gives some good practical tips of how to go about building your own house.
custom homes
Home is where the heART is
Our custom build homes at Blenheim Grove are coming out of the ground, and what better way to engage with the community that these homes will be a part of than collaborating with local artists?
Planning permission: changes for self build homes and custom build homes
If you weren’t aware, 31st October was an important day in the Custom Build and Self-build industry, especially in terms of planning permission changes.
Buying real estate at golden brick can be great value – but what is golden brick?
Golden Brick is a term that the building industry uses for the point at which a building becomes residential.
Self build journey: Gus Zogolovitch & Zog House
“Residential use on that site? …Not a chance”, chuckled the planning officer rather cruelly after my girlfriend and I had bought an unloved, overgrown and dilapidated terrace of garages at auction in 2004.
How to build your own London home
Finding land for sale for your self-build home in London can be difficult. It doesn’t need to be!
What we can learn from the Dutch – self-build and custom build
There are a lot of interesting things happening in the Netherlands, including custom build in the city of Almere, where there are plans to turn the housing market on its head by challenging the status quo of volume house-builders controlling the city’s provision of homes.