Adapting heritage properties to meet commercial needs…guest post for findersandsellsers.com

Adapting heritage properties to meet commercial needs can be their saving grace - guest blog by Property News editor Richenda Oldham for www.findersandsellers.com
Liverpool’s Exchange Station (1888) – built as a train station, rebuilt as modern offices in 1985 with the facade retained and then redeveloped by Space Northwest into 21st Century office space

I was hugely chuffed to be allowed to write a guest blog for the excellent Findersandsellers.com web site. This privately funded web site offers FREE property listings to estate agents around the world and looks set to give Rightmove and Zoopla a run for their money. But for me the best thing about the site is its cracking blog section.

Findersandsellers marketing director Scott Creasey is a superb blogger, who turns in TWO blogs per day, which is quite a benchmark by any standards. They are all extremely well researched and for anyone interested in residential or commercial property or blogging, I thoroughly recommend reading his posts.

The topic I chose to write about for my Findersandsellers guest blog was the importance of regenerating heritage buildings and giving them a new lease of life through commercial use. Property developers are often seen as the big bad boys, but actually it is their vision and expertise that has saved some pretty important pieces of architecture from total dereliction. By rescuing these old buildings, many of which are listed, they are doing much more than just preserving bricks and mortar, they are putting heart back into communities, which in turns inspires commercial confidence and can often turn whole areas around.

Here is the blog Adapting heritage properties to meet commercial needs can be their saving grace complete with images of successful regeneration schemes. Do let me have any feedback or send me examples of local regeneration projects that you rate.