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…
We’ve been wondering what impact the new laws to extend homes upwards will have on Wimbledon’s leafy streets. At the start of the week planning laws were changed aimed at adding more residential space and…
Last week we queried whether the Stamp duty holiday would inspire you to buy a house? One week later it seems that it has. Following the Chancellor’s announcement of a Stamp Duty holiday on the first…
Investors buying homes worth up to £500,000 won’t have to pay Stamp Duty on these purchases until the end of March 2021, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this week in a mini Budget statement. As ever, Property…
According to this article in Property Investor News analysis conducted by Knight Frank, COVID-19 and the subsequent government lockdown will result in a loss of 526,000 home sales in 2020. This fall in transaction volumes represents a…