On 26th November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood at the dispatch box to reveal the budget, only an hour and a half before the Office for Budget Responsibility did the irresponsible thing of accidentally publishing budget detail on their website. They may have been first in line to publish the exact detail but a series of leaks and …
What Happens During a Home Survey? Step-by-Step Guide for Buyers
By Dan Knowles FRICS, Managing Director and Registered Valuer, Websters Surveyors A home survey is an independent inspection of a property’s condition, carried out by a qualified surveyor before you’re legally committed to buying. If you’ve never had one, the process can feel a little opaque: who turns up, what they actually do, how long it takes, and what lands …
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
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 …
#lockdownhaircutchallenge
Just over a month into UK wide Lockdown due to Coronavirus and my hair has got too long. It didn’t take much to convince my wife to cut my hair grade 3 all over. She works for the NHS and whilst she’s on maternity leave with our 3 month old, her colleagues are doing an incredible job at the hospital …
Leasehold reform Law Commission report – our thoughts
“I bought my flat thinking I own my home outright. It’s a scandal that I don’t” “The value of my freehold asset should not be reduced by my tenant getting something for less than it is worth to me, or for less than I paid!” On the one side of the debate are disgruntled leaseholders, many of which were not …