(Photo: Call me Fred, Unsplash) Battersea Power Station stood heartbreakingly derelict for years and years so its renaissance as a residential and commercial redevelopment is likely to win it numerous accolades, the most recent being…
After a busy 2022, during which house prices hit record levels over the summer the effect of inflation, still stubbornly high continue to dominate commentary of the state of the property market. But as we…
As Wimbledon has been the location for our office for over a decade it’s been interesting to see new restaurants come and go. And whilst we might have a reputation for being property geeks, chartered…
The Holme in Regent’s Park has been put on the market for £250 million, which would make it the most expensive property ever sold in the UK. Valuing the 40-bedroom mansion set in four acres…
Exactly as we predicted in December, house prices have not fallen off a cliff, writes Clive Scrivener, Partner at Wimbledon based Chartered Surveyors Scrivener Tibbatts. According to Rightmove prices were steady on the month at…
It beggars belief that a role so intrinsic to the challenges faced by the government changes hands so often. Rachel Maclean MP was confirmed as Housing Minister by Rishi Sunak in his ministerial reshuffle this…
Reported by Housing Today the government has agreed to extend the practical completion deadline for homes reserved under the Help to Buy scheme just days before the deadline was due to be passed. The decision…
A recent advert in the Royal Institute of Architects magazine RIBA Journal reminded me that occasionally building works and development on a boundary between properties in different ownership create an open invitation to numerous and…
The number of residential property transactions in November was 12% higher than that of the same month last year, according to the latest figures from HMRC. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, there were 114,200 transactions…
Have you heard about The Line? It passed us by too when it was first announced by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in January 2021, but as chartered surveyors we’re naturally…