It’s the 25th of May 2024 and my head is spinning. Like a well known blonde mopped, scruffy politician, I sometimes like to write articles before and against a proposition. It helps me decide which way to campaign and eventually get Brexit (or in this case, Leasehold reform) done. However, unlike Mr B de Pfeffel Johnson, the architect here of …
Companies with UK residential property with individual assets worth £500,000 or more as of 1st April 2022, have until 30th April 2023 to submit their Valuations to HMRC. Valuations are far more likely to be approved by HMRC if they are undertaken by a firm of Chartered Surveyors, with RICS Registered Valuers, like Websters Surveyors. We provide these valuations across …
If you’re reading this because your solicitor has suggested you need an Inheritance tax valuation to aid a probate application, then thank you for considering using our service. It is never a pleasant valuation request to make. If you are making a request for a valuation, you’ll want to get it right. A poorly written valuation report can see a …
This month (January 2022), we promoted our Team administrator Monique Bridgeman to joint Office Manager. Our other joint Office Manager Jess Moss previously held the same the same role prior to her promotion. We are now hiring for a new Team administrator. This promotion follows hot on the heels of the promotion of Elina Kaoula from Principal Surveyor to Associate …
External cladding is a process used by developers which sees an additional building layer of material attached to the elevations of a building. External cladding can be a useful measure to increase a building’s insulation or aesthetic design. However, since the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 which claimed 72 lives, tens of thousands of multi-storey, multi-occupancy buildings have been …
We like to promote from within where we can and we’re delighted to announce the promotion of Elina Kaoula to Associate Director from 1st January 2022. Elina’s promotion marks almost a year to the day since she joined us as a Principal Surveyor and is in recognition of her hard work and willingness to be a ‘team player’, supporting colleagues …
Well perhaps a quip, but rather than something unprofessional for a Chartered Surveyor to write about, this article is actually about valuing properties of different sizes. Under 30 sqm The first issue is on micro studios. They are properties measuring under 30sqm GIA. They’re not readily suitable for loan for security finance, save as for with a very limited number …
The year was 2004 and I stepped up onto stage at Swansea Guild Hall, ready to shake the Vice Chancellors hand and pose for a photograph with a fake scroll. I was thrilled to be receiving my Law degree and nothing was going to stop me, not even the two crutches I’d been using for the last month after breaking …
B’nai B’rith is the oldest Jewish service organisation, first founded in 1843 in New York. It now operates in over 59 Countries and has and has official status at the UN as an NGO and we are represented at the EU in Brussels. Our Principal Surveyor Jonathan Nesbitt chose to donate to the B’nai B’rith in the memory of his …
Scandal’s feel quite common in the property world now don’t they? The leasehold (or fleecehold) scandal, the cladding scandal and currently beating a loud drum, the shared ownership scandal. There’s a lot of furore around shared ownership properties at the moment. In the last week, Panorama featured it in ‘The home I can’t afford’. That followed shortly after BBCs Moneybox …
On my first day of working as a Surveyor, some 15 years ago, I sat down with my new manager, a gentleman by the name of Bob. He was a wispy haired cheery guy who I learned a lot from, before his own career sailed into the sunset as he retired. On that very first day and for much of …
In a time when many other firms of Chartered Surveyors and Valuers are tightening their belts, we are pleased to announce our team has grown with the recruitment of Nicky Welton who recently joined our merry band. Nicky is a Chartered Surveyor who joins us from West End firm Carter Jonas, having spent time in their Compulsory Purchase team and …