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 past 12 months, I have seen a huge variety of buildings ranging from residential to commercial, with their structures built from brick, steel and in some cases even glass. Despite all of this variety there in one thing that these building have in common… They have all been insulated. If you’re planning a loft conversion, rear or side extension or perhaps just want an easy way to ...
Over the past 12 months, I have seen a huge variety of buildings ranging from residential to commercial, with their ...
Many insurance companies offer ‘New for Old’ policies. The Leasehold Reform Act is similar; you can get a new lease in ...
On a recent Full Building Survey of a 1930’s semi detached house, we discovered that the garage roof covering consisted of ...
Some time ago we wrote a post on chimney stacks, highlighting some of the common defects that we find when carrying out ...
Question A leasehold owner of a ground floor flat proposes to underpin the rear external walls (not party walls) of their ...
Question What factors should a Surveyor consider when setting the hourly rate to use when calculating expenses for ...
Question I recently arranged to meet a Building Owner’s surveyor on site to prepare a schedule of condition only to find that the foundations to the proposed rear extension had already been excavated and cast. In light of recent case law were we within our rights to produce an Award authorising the excavation work retrospectively. No damage had been caused at the time of our inspection ...
Question I recently arranged to meet a Building Owner’s surveyor on site to prepare a schedule of condition only to find ...
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 ...
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 ...
We wrote a few weeks ago about how things haven’t changed that much in the residential property in the last few decades. ...