Savills has predicted that the UK housing market will remain buoyant with prices set to rise by an average of 20.4% by 2024, despite the current Covid-19 pandemic, which has heightened uncertainty over the economy,…
Every once in a while a client or professional advisor asks us what’s the RICS Red Book, that your chartered surveyors all swear by? This really good blog post by one of our most trusted…
In the Bank of England’s latest quarterly Credit Conditions Survey, it is reported that whilst building societies and banks reported that loans to households – including mortgages – increased over the last quarter, it may…
The chairwoman of an influential House of Commons Select Committee has demanded the Ministry of Housing end the “misery and uncertainty” facing thousands of leaseholders in unsafe apartment buildings. Reported here: Meg Hillier MP, who…
As chartered surveyors we view the outside – and insides – of hundreds of properties every year. Everyone’s obsessed with property. Which is why this article particularly caught our attention in Property Investor Today, this week. The online property…
It might be 20 years’ overdue but at last the CMA is launching enforcement action involving 4 leading housing developers it believes may have broken consumer protection law in relation to leasehold homes. As part of…
It’s crept up on me quietly, but June marked the fifth anniversary of my being made Senior Partner at Scrivener Tibbatts, writes Clive Scrivener, at the Wimbledon based firm of chartered surveyors. None of us…
Property buyers wishing to relocate from Hong Kong have triggered a surge in interest in the London market according to new data from property media giant Juwai IQI. It shows that while demand for UK…
As part of government’s drive to modernise vital information for home buyers is now available to view online for the first time. The datasets, available through HM Land Registry’s new Use land and property data service,…
Estate Agent Today is reporting that the government is thinking of extending the controversial Help to Buy scheme beyond its end of 2020 deadline. The reasons on the surface may seem quite logical. The Covid-19 lockdown…