The ten year rule explained - (updated 2024) Certificate of lawfulness application for existing use or development What is a Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing Use or Development? A certificate of lawfulness is a legal document that confirms the current use of your property is lawful, despite not having the
Property market no longer a game of two halves National price analysis Normally around this time of year the market is buoyant, in fact looking back over past reports, I was often saying post the credit crunch the market was a ‘game of two halves’ with the first half of
Plumbers shine the spotlight on dripping taps during Water Saving Week WaterSafe is helping to pull the plug on water wastage by encouraging homeowners to potentially save thousands of litres of water a year by fixing leaky taps. Ignoring the drip, drip, drip of a leaky tap could be wasting
New legal decision to impact flat owners? Mark Chick - ALEP The Upper Tribunal has handed tenants an important victory concerning ‘common parts’ including roof spaces and airspace leases in leasehold enfranchisement. The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has held that a lease of the airspace above, and the subsoil below
Abolishing Section 21 Abolishing Section 21 without making Section 8 fully 'fit for purpose' will have dire consequences on our housing supply Yesterday (15th April 2019), the government outlined plans to consult on new legislation to abolish Section 21 in a bid to end so called ‘no-fault’ evictions.
Is it a miracle the property market is performing so well? Kate Faulkner's latest property price analysis, above a short interview on BBC News Channel and below her detailed report National price picture Standing back from all the uncertainty in the news and looking at the property market
Are volumes heading back to 2009 levels? Normally in the property market, if volumes fall, then price falls will quickly follow. During the credit crunch we saw volumes slip back by 50%, on average, while property prices fell by around 20% - although some areas performed worse and others better.
Kate Faulkner's latest property price picture National price picture For the property market ‘to keep going’ ideally we need the annual rate of property price growth to lag behind wage growth. However, this hasn’t been something we’ve experienced, certainly up until the credit crunch and this
Spring Statement from Philip Hammond March 2019 Some property news.... In between another disastrous week in parliament, Philip Hammond, our pretty much invisible Chancellor, delivered a rare speech called the ‘Spring Statement’ to explain where we are financially and give a little bit more detail on monies being invested in
Will Brexit crash the property market? I was the 'midnight expert' on 5Live between Wednesday and Thursday with the fabulous Phil Williams and, as always, in between the sport and news updates we managed to chat about the property market and I answered a fair number of questions,
Surprisingly resilient property market? Report headlines Rightmove “Muted rise in prices but market moving with 5% uplift in home-hunting” Home.co.uk “Growth nears zero while London readies for recovery” NAEA Propertymark “Housing market still moving, despite Brexit woes” RICS “Near term sentiment continues to deteriorate” Nationwide “Annual house price
What does the property market have in store for the rest of the year? While Theresa May seems to be battling for a soft or hard Brexit, the property market this year could go one of three ways: Stagnation This is already happening with the number of properties for sale