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.
We often receive enquiries from leaseholders who either have their property on the market or are planning to do so, and have just discovered the implications of having a short lease. Quite often in my experience, estate agents when first acquiring a flat on their books will underplay the impact of a shorter lease. Click through any number of properties on Rightmove and often any information on ...
We often receive enquiries from leaseholders who either have their property on the market or are planning to do so, and have ...
Some of the terminology around The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 is confusing to the layperson so we thought it would be a good ...
I recently received an email from an owner who wanted me to look at a party wall award he’d recently received from his ...
If you’ve been a landlord for a while, chances are you’ve come across difficult tenants in the past. You will no doubt ...
We’ve written quite a few posts over the last few months on how the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act ...
What do you do these days if you live in London and need additional space? Moving to a larger property might be out of the ...
Some people completely distance themselves from their rental property. They’re happy to keep the cash rolling in and let the tenants take control. On the other hand, there are landlords who view their rental property as their baby and want to know if the tenants so much as mount a picture on the wall. It can be especially difficult to view your property as an investment if you previously lived ...
Some people completely distance themselves from their rental property. They’re happy to keep the cash rolling in and let ...
In the first half of this post I looked at how Section 12 of the Act, relating to Security for Expenses, is administered. I ...
Appointing Owner: Owner of a mid-terraced house in Highbury, London N1 Proposed work: Side return extension Notice ...
The Party Wall Act grants wide ranging rights to Building Owners, for example, an Adjoining Owner can be happily going about ...