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.
Over the years, the Peter Barry team has carried out numerous pre-purchase property surveys for clients intending to buy houses of non-traditional construction. Non-standard properties can often be a source of concern for both buyers and mortgage lenders as there’s a risk of defects not found in general housing stock that might require expensive repairs. In this blog, we explore different ...
Over the years, the Peter Barry team has carried out numerous pre-purchase property surveys for clients intending to buy ...
For surveyors who undertake this form of work day in day out, it can be easy to assume that there is good general ...
It is not uncommon to discover that your neighbour has gone ahead, or is about to go ahead, with building works that fall ...
If your neighbour is proposing building works that fall under the remit of the Party Wall Act 1996, there is a clear legal ...
The Party Wall Act is a slightly complicated piece of legislation, and the industry is essentially self-regulating. This ...
This is a question that is asked from time to time, so it made sense to reveal a little detail on that subject. Peter ...
Since introducing the service almost 10 years ago, our surveyors at Peter Barry have valued hundreds of loft spaces on behalf of leaseholders, freeholders and sometimes both when there is a share of freehold or they get along. We have probably clocked up over a thousand party wall awards covering loft extensions and have noticed an increase in the desire of flat owners to extend onto roofs and ...
Since introducing the service almost 10 years ago, our surveyors at Peter Barry have valued hundreds of loft spaces on ...
We’ve been hearing about building material shortages anecdotally for a few months now but more recently reports have ...
Of all the types of property extension the conversion of a loft space is one of the more affordable in comparison to side ...
Over the last couple of years we’ve put on a series of lunchtime CPD sessions covering party wall procedures for ...