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Q. Can I seek your opinion on whether it’s more sensible to buy a house or an apartment? I’m a first-time buyer and it seems when I ask around my circle the apartment versus the house camp are equally divided. They have both given me excellent reasons for buying one over the other. Obviously from…
Q. My wife and I have been renting a property for the last couple of years but sadly our relationship has broken down and we are divorcing. I moved out of the property a few months ago leaving my ex to meet the last few rent payments while the tenancy notice period played out. To…
Q. I am carrying out renovations on my property, a Leasehold and have just been told by the building surveyor acting for the Landlords of the development that I will need to get a ‘Schedule of Condition’ carried out for the apartment beneath me? Shopping around I understand that a surveyor can charge anything from…
Q. I have just completed on a leasehold property situated on a very nice residential development and have plans to completely gut the place and start again, to include the removal of some non-load bearing stud walls. Given I am not removing any structural walls do you think I will still need planning consent? A.…
Landlords need to be aware that the government is launching new regulations for HMO’s (Houses of Multiple Occupation) from October 2018. With significant growth in the private rented sector and many landlords converting smaller properties for use as HMO’s the government has decided to extend its mandatory licensing in England to cover properties where five…
Q. What do you think I can do to protect myself from dodgy tenants? I’m a first time Landlord and have become increasingly nervous about the thought of allowing someone to rent my home, I’ve seen all the nightmares that can occur in the news and on TV shows and as much as I need…
Q. I am buying an apartment and I have been told that it has a parking space which is paramount for me as a driver and particularly because I am buying in canary wharf where I understand street parking is not always possible? I have now been informed by my solicitor that according to the…
Q. I am really unhappy with the management company I have looking after my rental property, they seem to be charging extortionate fees to do little to nothing and they are not even looking after the property the way they should either, I can’t remember the last time they carried out a routine visit and…
The decline in the property market over the last 12 months is now pretty obvious for most to observe, even those that have fiercely fought against it and refused to believe what’s really going on in the canary wharf market have come to terms with the cold hard facts that their property isn’t worth what…
Q. I am a first-time buyer and a little naïve as to the whole process of what happens now my offer has been accepted. Can you give me a general idea of what happens next so that I don’t feel completely like a fish out of water and I have a rough idea of how…
