LATEST BLOG POSTS: Leasehold Valuations
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 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 ...
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 ...
Glossary of Leasehold Valuation Terms
Friday, 20th April 2012 | by: Peter Barry
Some of the terminology used when decribing a lease extension or freehold purchase can be a touch technical so we thought ...
Marketing a Property With a Short Lease
Friday, 13th April 2012 | by: Peter Barry
We often receive enquiries from leaseholders who either have their property on the market or are planning to do so, and have ...
Case Study – How Using a Professional can save you Money
Wednesday, 26th October 2011 | by: Peter Barry
We’ve written quite a few posts over the last few months on how the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act ...
The Leasehold Reform Act – The Concept of New for Old
Thursday, 31st March 2011 | by: Peter Barry
Many insurance companies offer ‘New for Old’ policies. The Leasehold Reform Act is similar; you can get a new lease in ...
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 Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act 1993. We’ve looked at the various elements that have to be taken into account in calculating the premium that the lessee will have to pay to the freeholder and thought that it was about time that we now looked at a worked example of ...
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 ...
How Marriage Value is Calculated
Wednesday, 19th January 2011 | by: Peter Barry
We have been promising to explain why the concept of ‘Marriage Value’ is important and why residential leases are said ...
What is Marriage Value?
Tuesday, 11th January 2011 | by: Peter Barry
In my last leasehold post we said that we would try to explain the implications of the Leasehold Reform Act in as simple ...
