Do laws in the UK differ to laws in Ireland? My property is in London. My neighbour has built his extension over my garden wall at the rear of the house. This is a semi-detached property. He insists that the garden wall is his. They continued with the building work during lockdown and also built a parapet between our two houses. They did not serve a correct party wall agreement. They have also built over the front garden wall which is in my driveway. Yet again they said that they have planning permission to do this. This has weakened the lower part of the wall which now has cracks.
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors publishes land measurement guide
New guidance on the measurement of land for development projects such as new housing and commercial development have been published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, which defines common measurements used across the built environment and associated metrics such as density.
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Housing, Communities and local Government Committee (HCLGC) chair Clive Betts has written to Robert Jenrick MP to ask for government support in the implementation of new cladding valuation guidelines. The guidance was published by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in early March this year. It sets out the
The property market is running at its fastest pace since before the financial crisis
20 May 2021 • 6:00am
Annual house price growth in March hit 10.2pc, according to official figures – the highest rate of growth recorded since August 2007.
It is a comparison that sparks fears of an overheated market. August 2007 was the peak of the housing market before the financial crisis. Less than a year later, a 17-month period of house price falls began, with values plummeting nearly 16pc.
Government measures such as the stamp duty holiday and the furlough scheme have so far insulated the housing market from the worst economic shock in 300 years. Can the growth continue, or are these overheated house prices on borrowed time?
Falling trust levels, waning influence and concerns about transparency are among the top issues highlighted by members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in a consultation report published today.