Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
In my last post we said that we would start to look at how ‘The diminution in value of the freeholder’s interest in the subject property’ is calculated. Generally there will be two elements to take into account. This will be the loss of the income from the ground rent and the loss of the potential reversion at the end of the original lease term. As you will recall from our earlier ...
In my last post we said that we would start to look at how ‘The diminution in value of the freeholder’s interest in the ...
We wrote a few weeks ago about how things haven’t changed that much in the residential property in the last few decades. ...
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to ...
Question An Owner of a terraced house wishes to convert his original first floor balcony to an additional room. The balcony ...
Question An Owner plans to add an additional floor to the back addition of his late Victorian terraced house by raising a ...
When carrying out a building survey we usually start by looking at the exterior of the building and work my way down from ...
We have been promising to explain why the concept of ‘Marriage Value’ is important and why residential leases are said to be short when there is a term of less than 80 years remaining. Thanks for your patience; we are nearly there now! Before we get there we’ll just recap some of the points we’ve been looking at in previous posts. Most leaseholders of residential property are entitled ...
We have been promising to explain why the concept of ‘Marriage Value’ is important and why residential leases are said ...
In my last leasehold post we said that we would try to explain the implications of the Leasehold Reform Act in as simple ...
I recently accompanied one of our Chartered Surveyors on an RICS Homebuyer Report. What was a little unusual about this ...
We get quite a few enquiries each week on the subject of Leasehold Reform. The conversion often starts as follows:- ...