LATEST BLOG POSTS: Surveying
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 #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 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 ...
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 ...
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 studwork wall against the existing party parapet wall (see sketch below) – does he have a right of access on to the roof of the Adjoining Owner’s property to apply hanging tiles/flashings? Could the Adjoining Owner object to such an arrangement on the basis that it ...
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 ...
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 ...
