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Our list of accessible overseas developments is growing! Latest addition is a new apartment complex at Los Montesinos 10 minutes from the coast on Spain’s beautiful Costa Blanca. The apartments are within easy walking or wheeling distance of the town square (pictured) featuring a great choice of shops, restaurants and bars. A new medical centre […]

In addition to our network of approved estate agents, we are now working to bring you sources of reliable and independent financial advice. In all cases, any adviser that we recommend will: be familiar with the Accessible Property Register and understand what we do. be able to search the whole market to offer you the […]

The following changes to the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) programme, announced by the government in February this year, will come into force on 22nd May 2008: The maximum grant limit will be raised from £25,000 to £30,000 Local authorities will have the discretion to impose a limited charge on owner-occupied adapted properties if the property […]

The profile of accessible property and APR was raised recently by a very positive piece in the Liverpool Echo. If you would like to read the feature, click on the link below: Access all Areas – Susan Lee, Liverpool Echo 30 April

Well, almost! Thanks to our friends Globrix.com, we are now searching more than 700,000 properties advertised by estate agents across the UK. If wheelchair access is mentioned in the property details, then the advert, with a link to the estate agent website will be reproduced on our property pages. The bad news is that, of […]

Our new Overseas Property section is now live! Developments featured in this section all include properties accessible to wheelchair users. Before accepting adverts, we do our best to ensure that the environment and infrastructure of the development also meet acceptable access standards and that there are accessible local services within walking and wheeling distance. The […]

†Persuading landlords (private and social) to identify and promote accessible property for rent has always been a struggle for us. There will be many reasons for this but we are pleased to announce the prospect of at least slight improvements in this area. Until now, we could only rely on regular advertising from Sheffield Homes […]

There was a first for Christine and I last weekend – a comfortable two night stay in a central London hotel without having to take our own hoist! The Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury really does live up to expectations. Free disabled parking, a huge bedroom and accessible bathroom, plus a tracking ceiling hoist (which can be […]

Our latest property section opens today – retirement property.† The section contains useful information and links for both advertisers and those who would like to view available property. We have included retirement property previously, but now we have a dedicated section.† Again, we try to ensure that any property advertised in this section meets our […]

Towards the end of February we will be meeting with the UK and Ireland Access Manager for a large hotel chain.† It’s an opportunity for us to discuss disabled facilities, booking systems, and quality of information provided.† What is your experience of booking accessible hotel rooms and the quality of disabled provision?† What would you […]

An unusual opportunity has arisen to buy fully accessible cottages close to the Norfolk Broads and in one of the most beautiful parts of Norfolk. The cottages have been available as holiday lets and Christine and I can testify to their accessibility as we spent a very pleasant week there a couple of years ago!† […]

Our new booking service for accessible hotels starts today!† The hotel groups that we promote are chosen for their high access standards and a positive attitude towards disability.† We aim progressively to provide more detailed information about disabled provision for each of the groups. In particular, we will be featuring individual hotels that offer ceiling […]

At last – major property search engine Globrix.com has linked up with The Accessible Property Register to provide the first mainstream search facility for access. Globrix searches estate agent websites to create a huge database of available property – currently more than 500,000 homes are included!† With our help, they have added a list of […]

APR is to launch a new information and booking service for accessible hotel chains.† And, as our logo shows, we have made a start with Holiday Inn.† We will be adding additional chains over the next few weeks so do keep checking. In addition to providing a booking service, we will be asking our new […]

If you want to search the whole property market, there’s a new website available that is way ahead of anything else out there. Globrix†is a sophisticated new search engine that already has links to more than 500,000 UK properties for sale and rent. And the number of different ways that you can search is a […]