The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has reported a modest recovery in the UK housing market in February 2024. New buyer enquires rose for the second consecutive month and signals an upward trend in buyer demand. Supply of property coming the market has...
Having just completed a valuation under the Charities Act 2011 it occurs to me that a short blog on the subject would be worthwhile. The amount of property left to charity is staggering, from small parcels of land to large houses, farms, development sites – the...
So here we are rattling through a new decade with a new political era for Great Britain looming at the end of January. We can now take a look back at the residential property market for December 2019, following publication of the RICS UK Residential Market...
As the last of the turkey gets eaten and people drift back to work (those lucky enough to have a couple of weeks off), many people reflect about their aims and ambitions for the coming year. For lots of us it might be joining a gym or planning some exciting...
Well 2019 draws to a close and it seems amazing that it’s twenty years since we were planning to welcome in the new millennium. So much has happened in that time, and we can hardly say that 2019 was uneventful, certainly from a political point of view. It is...
The Labour manifesto has been published today, with swingeing plans for the Private Rented Sector (PRS). Landlords now have to prepare themselves (in the event of a Labour victory) for rent controls, open ended tenancies and binding minimum standards. Perhaps...
