LATEST BLOG POSTS
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.
Adjoining Owners’ Surveyor’s Fees
Friday, 12th July 2013 | by: Peter Barry
3 Chartered Surveyors were set a challenge by their boss to increase fee income in the year ahead by 10%. The building surveyor spent time networking with solicitors and estate agents to generate recommendations and worked an extra half an hour each day. The valuation surveyor managed to get on to a couple of new lender panels and spent additional time organising his dairy to squeeze in ...
3 Chartered Surveyors were set a challenge by their boss to increase fee income in the year ahead by 10%. The building ...
Essex Barn Renovation – The Planning Process
Tuesday, 9th July 2013 | by: Peter Barry
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
New Rules Covering Rear Extensions
Friday, 28th June 2013 | by: Peter Barry
Following a public consultation and weeks of political wrangling temporary changes to the Permitted Development rules came ...
Inverted Pitched Roofs – Common Defects
Friday, 28th June 2013 | by: Peter Barry
In this post we will be looking at roofs. I thought I would start with a riddle, what is one of the most common types of ...
Essex Barn Renovation
Friday, 28th June 2013 | by: Peter Barry
Having talked about it for many years my family and I ‘escaped to the country’ in October last year; specifically to a ...
A New Way to Resolve Boundary Disputes
Friday, 5th April 2013 | by: Peter Barry
You’ve probably read newspaper articles about warring neighbours who’ve spent tens of thousands of pounds going to court ...
The Benefits of Extending Your Lease in Good Time
Friday, 9th November 2012 | by: Peter Barry
If you own a flat or maisonette it is almost certainly held on a lease. The original term of the lease is likely to have been 99 or 125 years and there will be provisions for the Landlord to collect ground rent every year at an amount that will normally increase throughout the term of the lease. As the remaining term of the lease reduces so does the value of your investment but fortunately ...
If you own a flat or maisonette it is almost certainly held on a lease. The original term of the lease is likely to have ...
Subterranean Development Bill
Saturday, 4th August 2012 | by: Peter Barry
The Subterranean Development Bill was originally an amendment to the Localism Bill sponsored by Lord Selsdon and drafted by ...
Japanese Knotweed… Ignore this plant at your cost
Tuesday, 19th June 2012 | by: Peter Barry
Over the last couple of years I have noticed that Japanese knotweed has received an increasing amount of press coverage, the ...
Lease Extension – The Process after your Valuation
Wednesday, 13th June 2012 | by: Peter Barry
In past blogs I have covered the many issues in regards to extending or acquiring a new lease; however most of these have ...
