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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.
Party Wall Questions #6
Thursday, 17th March 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question A leasehold owner of a ground floor flat proposes to underpin the rear external walls (not party walls) of their property. What notice(s) should be served on the Freeholder and the leaseholder of the flat above and what part(s) of the Act apply? This is another question that was raised at a recent FPWS North London forum meeting which I helped to organise. I would welcome the ...
Question A leasehold owner of a ground floor flat proposes to underpin the rear external walls (not party walls) of their ...
Party Wall Questions #5
Tuesday, 15th March 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question What factors should a Surveyor consider when setting the hourly rate to use when calculating expenses for ...
Party Wall Questions #4
Saturday, 12th March 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question I recently arranged to meet a Building Owner’s surveyor on site to prepare a schedule of condition only to find ...
Leasehold Valuation Calculations – 2 Worked Examples
Saturday, 12th March 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Over the course of the last few posts we have tried to explain the process of granting a new lease under the terms of the ...
How to Calculate the Diminution in Value of the Freeholder’s Interest
Tuesday, 15th February 2011 | by: Peter Barry
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 ...
Plus ça change
Wednesday, 9th February 2011 | by: Peter Barry
We wrote a few weeks ago about how things haven’t changed that much in the residential property in the last few decades. ...
Party Wall Questions #3
Tuesday, 1st February 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to an existing party wall and connect the two foundations with a dowel (known as ‘overpinning’) without serving notice? This is another question that was raised at a recent FPWS North London forum meeting which I helped to organise. I would welcome the views of other ...
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to ...
Party Wall Questions #2
Wednesday, 26th January 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question An Owner of a terraced house wishes to convert his original first floor balcony to an additional room. The balcony ...
Party Wall Questions #1
Saturday, 22nd January 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Question An Owner plans to add an additional floor to the back addition of his late Victorian terraced house by raising a ...
Property Defects – Chimneys and Flues
Friday, 21st January 2011 | by: Peter Barry
When carrying out a building survey we usually start by looking at the exterior of the building and work my way down from ...
