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 often receive enquiries from leaseholders who either have their property on the market or are planning to do so, and have just discovered the implications of having a short lease. Quite often in my experience, estate agents when first acquiring a flat on their books will underplay the impact of a shorter lease. Click through any number of properties on Rightmove and often any information on ...
We often receive enquiries from leaseholders who either have their property on the market or are planning to do so, and have ...
I recently received an email from an owner who wanted me to look at a party wall award he’d recently received from his ...
We’ve written quite a few posts over the last few months on how the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act ...
What do you do these days if you live in London and need additional space? Moving to a larger property might be out of the ...
In the first half of this post I looked at how Section 12 of the Act, relating to Security for Expenses, is administered. I ...
Appointing Owner: Owner of a mid-terraced house in Highbury, London N1 Proposed work: Side return extension Notice ...
The Party Wall Act grants wide ranging rights to Building Owners, for example, an Adjoining Owner can be happily going about his business when a notice drops on the doormat informing him that in 2 months time his neighbour will demolish the wall that divides their properties; whether he likes it or not. The Adjoining Owner’s immediate concerns will probably focus on the noise, the dust and ...
The Party Wall Act grants wide ranging rights to Building Owners, for example, an Adjoining Owner can be happily going about ...
Question A pair of semi-detached houses have each been converted in to flats. The flats are each held on long leases ...
Question Does the Adjoining Owner’s surveyor a) Have any responsibility to ensure that the design of the ...
Question In light of Kaye v Lawrence can the panel give some examples of the types of work to a residential property that ...