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May 18, 2006updated 22 Nov 2022 7:22pm

Brooklands closes ‘Place’ spin-offs

By Press Gazette

The Brooklands Group has closed its three spin-off titles to Channel 4 magazine, A Place in the Sun, blaming changes in the international property market and a decline in advertising in traditional holiday home destinations.

Editorial from the three magazines — A Place in the Sun's everything France, A Place in the Sun's everything Spain and A Place in the Sun's everything America — will be merged into the parent publication, which will look at the market in a broader sense.

The company said this wider focus suited property buyers who now looked for homes beyond the established hotspots.

A spokesperson said: "A lot of people are going into the international property market these days with not so fixed ideas of where they want to buy."

A declining advertising market in areas such as Spain contributed to the decision to close the titles.

"It's harder to sell a specific number of advertising pages to a specific country and we're reflecting a trend that international estate agents have experienced, where it's difficult to be a vendor in a single country," the spokesperson added.

The publisher will keep on a number of staff for editorial supplements it plans as additions to A Place in the Sun, but 13 editorial positions will go as a result of the closure. The spokesperson said they expected most of the staff affected to be redeployed within the company.

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The group's most recent launch was the official magazine of Supernanny, Channel 4's modern day Mary Poppins programme, at the end of April.

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