Valuing Properties with Short Leases and Informal Extensions: How Surveyors Navigate Risk Without Clear Precedent
A leasehold flat with 74 years remaining on its lease can be worth up to 12% less than an identical flat next door with a 99-year term — and once that term dips below 80 years, the financial stakes climb sharply higher. For surveyors, valuing properties with short leases and informal extensions: how surveyors navigate […]
Boundary Disputes and Title Plans: Why Surveyors Must Not Treat the Land Registry Plan as the Whole Answer
Roughly one in five boundary disputes that reach the courts in England and Wales could have been avoided if the parties had understood one fundamental fact from the outset: the red line on a Land Registry title plan is not a legal boundary. It is an approximation. Yet every year, homeowners, developers, and even some […]
Party Wall and Scaffolding Access: How Surveyors Assess Temporary Access, Overhangs, and Occupier Risk
Roughly one in three party wall disputes in urban areas involves some form of access disagreement — and scaffolding is at the centre of a significant proportion of those conflicts. Party Wall and Scaffolding Access: How Surveyors Assess Temporary Access, Overhangs, and Occupier Risk is a subject that sounds procedural on paper but becomes intensely […]
