
David joined Peter Barry in 2023 as a Residential Surveyor focusing on L2 Home Survey reports.
He was one of the first surveyors to achieve AssocRICS in the country, in late 2014. David has worked for large corporates and smaller surveying firms since he qualified. David is at his best and happiest when explaining and advising clients.
Before becoming a surveyor, David obtained a degree in Built Environment from UWE in Bristol and started out within the property industry as an estate agent in 2007.
In his free time, David performs and teaches circus skills for children and adults.
Here at Peter Barry, we continue to handle a significant number of lease extension and freehold enfranchisement claims each month. Still, the vast majority are on leases that are greater than 80 years and have reasonable ground rents, meaning that they have less to gain from ongoing leasehold reforms. That does, of course, ... Read More >>
Over recent weeks we’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of enquiries and instructions for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) valuations across London and the surrounding areas. The surge appears to be driven largely by clients who are gifting property to children and other relatives ahead of the forthcoming November Budget. ... Read More >>
Works that are the subject of a dispute under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (the ‘Act’) should not commence until they have been authorised in a party wall award (the document which is agreed between the appointed surveyors to resolve the dispute). However, there are sometimes good reasons to defer some aspects of the ... Read More >>