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.
The Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act, 1993, establishes the valuation basis and legal framework for leaseholders to extend their lease (as well as enfranchise). The most common way to enact the Act, is to serve a Section 42 notice with the help of a specialist solicitor, but this does come with a raft of stipulations and costs, and is a course of action that should not be taken ...
The Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act, 1993, establishes the valuation basis and legal framework for leaseholders ...
We have recently added a tool to our website that allows you to get an idea as to the cost of your lease extension. Around ...
With London being London, seemingly any space that can be developed is being developed. The more typical schemes are loft ...
The purpose of this post is not to explain the Act but rather to examine how the Act can influence the design of some ...
The leasehold valuation team here at Peter Barry recently attended the annual Leasehold Advisory conference that brings ...
In the first 2 parts of this post we looked at history of subsidence and the influence of trees; in this final part we'll ...
In the first part of this post we looked at the history of subsidence as we know it today and how subsidence related insurance claims. Today, we'll move on to look at exactly what subsidence is and some of the contributory factors. What is ‘Subsidence in Clay Soils? In geological terms clay is a relatively modern deposit and usually overlies much older rock. In London and the South East ...
In the first part of this post we looked at the history of subsidence as we know it today and how subsidence related ...
If we were to simplify buildings down to their very core elements it could be said that they contain only 3 different parts; ...
A Bit of History Anyone who's ever erected a fence in clay soil using timber posts knows that you can hammer these into ...
We are regularly instructed to prepare valuations on leasehold flats located above commercial premises. The shortage of ...