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.
We wrote a few weeks ago about how things haven’t changed that much in the residential property in the last few decades. Just recently we carried out surveys of two flats in London which illustrate this point quite dramatically. Both properties were one-bedroom, purpose-built flats in medium rise developments. They were both located in Central London, the first flat being adjacent to ...
We wrote a few weeks ago about how things haven’t changed that much in the residential property in the last few decades. ...
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to ...
Question An Owner of a terraced house wishes to convert his original first floor balcony to an additional room. The balcony ...
Question An Owner plans to add an additional floor to the back addition of his late Victorian terraced house by raising a ...
When carrying out a building survey we usually start by looking at the exterior of the building and work my way down from ...
We have been promising to explain why the concept of ‘Marriage Value’ is important and why residential leases are said ...
In my last leasehold post we said that we would try to explain the implications of the Leasehold Reform Act in as simple terms as possible. We thought that the best approach would be to start by defining some of the terms that we will be using and the first one that springs to mind is ‘Marriage Value’. Marriage Value may be described as ‘the additional value generated when an ...
In my last leasehold post we said that we would try to explain the implications of the Leasehold Reform Act in as simple ...
I recently accompanied one of our Chartered Surveyors on an RICS Homebuyer Report. What was a little unusual about this ...
We get quite a few enquiries each week on the subject of Leasehold Reform. The conversion often starts as follows:- ...
I joined Peter Barry Surveyors in June this year following the completion of a Masters degree in Real Estate Development at ...