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Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Front Exterior

Shared Ownership with McCarthy Stone and Homes England

Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Front Exterior

Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Communal Gardens

Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Communal Lounge

Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Living Room

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Catherine Place, Melton Mowbray - Master Bedroom

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Discover Catherine Place in Melton Mowbray.

Shared ownership (50% example share/50% rent)

1 bed from
£117,500/£270 pcm

Purchase

2 beds from
£299,995

Rent (Includes service charge)

1 bed from
£1,540 pcm

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0800 201 4811

The apartments at Catherine Place are selling fast, with 90% now sold. To make an appointment to find out more about the stunning properties available, please call 0800 201 4811.

Situated on Scalford Road in the historic market town of Melton Mowbray, Catherine Place is a superb Retirement Living development for the over 60's, offering 25 one bedroom and 22 two bedroom beautiful retirement apartments available for sale. These private retirement properties share attractive communal facilities and an amazing location. With easy walking access to the town centre, this Retirement Living development offers a multitude of amenities, entertainment and attractions right on the doorstep.

Discover Retirement Living with McCarthy Stone

This Retirement Living development in Melton Mowbray offers safe, secure, luxurious and low maintenance retirement homes, exclusive to the over the 60s. You’ll benefit from a friendly manager on-site to keep everything running smoothly, as well as access to communal areas like the lovely lounge (with free Wi-Fi) and large gardens for socialising. There will be lifts to all floors as well as car parking onsite - including guest parking. There will also be a hotel-style guest suite as a convenient alternative when people come to stay. Pets are welcome too!

Low maintenance and sociable

Catherine Place Retirement Living development is being designed to encourage community feeling to flourish, while also allowing you to enjoy the complete privacy of your own spacious retirement apartment. You’ll enjoy stylish well-maintained communal spaces, including the well-appointed lounge with free Wi-Fi, and a lush, landscaped garden - ideal for meeting your friends, neighbours and family for a drink and a chat. We find the communal facilities soon become social hubs – a hive of informal gatherings and regular clubs, events and meet-ups to suit all sorts of interests. Our communities offer things like film nights, pie and mash lunches, knitting clubs, cocktail evenings, music, yoga, birthday parties and even the odd fiesta.

Safe and secure

All our new retirement apartments are designed with intelligent ergonomics and Modern Methods of Construction to ensure they are a joy to live in. As well as being well-insulated, warm and energy-efficient, they have the latest safety and security features built in. You’ll benefit from a 24-hour emergency call system, intruder alarms, fire detection and door camera entry, so you can see who it is before answering the door - as well as the reassurance of a manager onsite in office hours.

Development Highlights

Ideally located in the historic market town of Melton Mowbray, Britain's "rural capital of food"
A range of amenities close by including cafes, restaurants and shops
Excellent transport links with easy access to surrounding towns and villages
Elegant communal lounge to socialise in with friends and neighbours
Dedicated House Manager to run the development day-to-day
Expertly designed apartments with ease of living in mind

Key Features

Camera entry system
House Manager
Guest parking
Near the countryside
Landscaped gardens
Lounge Wi-Fi access
Lifts to all floors
Guest suite
Pets allowed

Interactive Site Plan

Our interactive site plan allows you to easily find available retirement properties. Click the tabs to view each floor. You'll see that one-bedroom homes are in yellow and two-bedroom homes are in purple. When you click on a property, you'll find out whether it is available for sale, rent or shared ownership, as well as pricing. Click on 'view property' to find out more. Retirement homes shown in red are already reserved, sold or rented out, but may be available on our Resales website.

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Found a property that takes your fancy? Find out more about the practical details including information on service charge and FAQS.

The properties at this development are a mix of freehold and leasehold properties. Leasehold properties have a term of 999 years from and including 01/01/2021

You can buy part of your home and pay rent on the rest, so you can move in and enjoy the benefits of the McCarthy Stone lifestyle without committing to outright purchase. The Shared Ownership scheme is run in conjunction with Homes England, our government approved partner.

Electricity, heating and lighting (communal areas)
Water and sewage (communal areas and apartments)
Maintenance of building and gardens
Building insurance
Development staff
Future maintenance fund
Professional fees
Emergency call system
Income to guest suites and sundry income

What's not included?

Electricity, heating and lighting (apartments)
Home and contents insurance
Council Tax
Phone / broadband
TV licence / TV service

1 Bedroom Apartment

Service Charge *

£51.01

2 Bedroom Apartment

Service Charge *

£76.51

* Reviewed annually

You can enjoy the McCarthy Stone lifestyle without paying the full purchase price.
Buying a percentage share of the property allows you to manage your finances to cater for possible future needs.
If you buy 75% of the value of the property, there is no rent to pay on the outstanding share.
If you buy 50% of the value of the property, you will pay rent on the outstanding share.
You could claim up to £500 a year to help with essential repairs in the first 10 years.

With this scheme, you can purchase up to 75% of the value of your property – and if you own 75%, you won’t pay any rent on the outstanding 25% share. It provides a more affordable way to buy one of our retirement properties.

Shared Ownership is when you buy part of your property and rent the rest. It enables customers to enjoy a McCarthy Stone property without committing to purchase 100% of the property value. Homes England is the government approved provider of Shared Ownership schemes which enables us to deliver the ownership option. They regulate rental charges and fees applicable to the homes within this scheme.

No, Shared Ownership is available at selected developments and exclusions do apply. Speak to a Sales Consultant to find out more.

McCarthy & Stone (Shared Ownership) Limited will become your landlord on the share you don’t buy.

Before entering into the Shared Ownership agreement, we recommend that you obtain independent financial advice so you know what your new home will cost and that you can afford it.

If you take up our Shared Ownership offer, we require you to have a financial assessment with an Independent Advisor to make sure you can afford the ongoing costs both today and if your circumstances change. We will put you in contact with an advisor who has experience of Shared Ownership schemes and can assess your eligibility.

You should plan for some one-off costs associated with your purchase, including, but not limited to the following:

• Reservation deposit (which is deducted from your final purchase)

• Solicitors Fees and disbursements

• Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) in England.

Your solicitor will be able to tell you if the tax applies and how much it will be

• Estate Agent fees if selling a current property

Car Parking spaces are available at some developments. Please ask the Sales Consultant for more details.

This covers items in the home that supply water and electricity such as basins, baths, toilets and also cables, but not fixtures, or appliances such as ovens or washing machines. Pipes and drainage items for heating and hot water are also included.

You can buy properties on this development. If you’d like to own your retirement property, we can help make the move as stress-free as possible, including support with packing and removals. If you have a home to sell, we can even act as a cash buyer, so you’ll avoid chains and estate agent fees.

Electricity, heating and lighting (communal areas)
Water and sewage (communal areas and apartments)
Maintenance of building and gardens
Building insurance
Development staff
Future maintenance fund
Professional fees
Emergency call system
Income to guest suites and sundry income

What's not included?

Electricity, heating and lighting (apartments)
Home and contents insurance
Council Tax
Phone / broadband
TV licence / TV service

1 Bedroom Apartment

Service Charge *

£51.01

2 Bedroom Apartment

Service Charge *

£76.51

* Reviewed annually

Many of our homeowners are pleased to find that the service charges for their apartment tend to work out at less than what they were paying in like-for-like costs at their previous property.

Energy bills often turn out to be lower thanks to the modern construction methods we use at all our developments. Your new apartment is also likely to be a more manageable size and so cheaper to run.

When Customers discuss the purchase of a McCarthy Stone apartment with us, they receive a service charge leaflet and our Sales Executive sits down with them to help them fill in the costs, review what is covered in the management services and compare them to day-to-day running costs in their current home. Our Sales Executive ensures that they have a detailed knowledge of ongoing costs before a sale is completed

Usually this can take between 12 to 16 weeks. We understand that some customers may have a time period that will more suitable for them and we aim to be as flexible as we can.

Yes. If you want a quick, simple way to sell your home and move into one of our retirement properties, then Part Exchange could be the answer. For more information please click here .

We have an expert resales team for people selling our retirement properties, with an extensive database of customers waiting to move in. This helps us to sell faster and at a better price than traditional estate agents. On average the McCarthy Stone Resales team achieve a net price increase on the retirement properties they sell. For example, for properties bought new in the last three years and since resold, the net increase averages 6%. View resale retirement homes.

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THE LOCAL AREA

Living in Melton Mowbray

As well as being the home of both the pork pie and stilton cheese, various food festivals are held in Melton Mowbray throughout the year to champion local produce, and the twice-weekly market is also very popular with people from across the region.

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As well as being a foodie's heaven, Melton Mowbray is a hotspot for history buffs. The town's heritage walking trail guides you through a thousand years of history, from a mention of the Melton Mowbray market in the Doomsday Book to a Roman Catholic Church built by the Polish community that, after exile during World War II, settled in the town in the 1940s.

If you play or enjoying watching bowls, you'll be interested to know that the English Indoor Bowling Association (EIBA) is based in Melton Mowbray and that the Melton & District Indoor Bowls Club hosts the EIBA National Championship annually.

If you fancy trying bowls for the first time, the bowls club offers three free starter sessions before you decide if you want to join - it's a great way of meeting new people!And if you're something of an ale connoisseur (or not!), at Belvoir Alehouse Visitor Centre you can sample the delicious range of ales brewed on site. Or why not take a tour of the brewery and discover how this wonderful range of beers is produced.

Melton Mowbray Facts:

27,158

people

20 miles

from Nottingham

Catherine Place

Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1FH (Sat Nav LE13 1JZ)

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Conveniently situated close to these local amenities:
Bus Stop 0.3 miles
Doctors 0.5 miles
Farmers Market 0.3 miles
Supermarket 0.3 miles

The development is just 0.3 miles from the twice-weekly market and weekly antiques fair. Just a short stroll from here, you’ll also find the Dickinson & Morris Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, which specialises in the iconic Melton Mowbray pork pies.

The train station is under 1 mile away and has direct services to Nottingham, Birmingham, Norwich, Cambridge and many other destinations.

Getting to Location

If you are using a Sat Nav system you may need the full address of this development. The postcode may be newly created by Royal Mail and may not be accurate for some months.

Our people

The Team at Catherine Place

Louise McKerchar

Sales Consultant

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SPOTLIGHT OFFER- Apartment 44
APARTMENT 44 WITH 3 YEARS SERVICE CHARGE PAID, PLUS SMOOTH MOVE AND CURTAINS AND LIGHT FITTINGS - FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY

Reserve apartment 44 before the 30th of December 2023 and legally complete by the 29th February 2024 and we will pay 100% of your service charge over three years, saving a total of £17,250*, together with the added benefit of our Smooth Move service.

This spacious second floor, two bedroom apartment that features a west facing walk out balcony, is in a stunning location within our Farnham House development. Book your priority viewing today!

*Offer available when you reserve on or before 30th December and legally complete by 29th February 2024. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Offer may be withdrawn at any time by McCarthy Stone. McCarthy Stone are offering to pay up to 100% of annual service charge payable on apartment 44 for a maximum of 3 years or until a change in ownership, whichever is the earlier. Apartment sold as seen. For more information visit www.mccarthyandstone.co.uk/3yr100/. For more information on Smooth Move visit www.mccarthyandstone.co.uk/smoothmoveterms/
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Part Exchange for a fast and hassle-free sale
With Part Exchange, we can act as a cash buyer for your home. There’s no estate agent fees, no viewings and no chains. Just a guaranteed sale at a great price - so you could be enjoying the McCarthy Stone lifestyle sooner.
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Smooth Move
Nobody expects moving home to be easy, but we’re here to help you every step of the way; from the moment you make a reservation, through to the day you move in. Our Smooth Move service ensures everything goes like clockwork, which includes helping with the cost*.
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