With local authority ‘cut-backs’, Planning Departments are reducing staff numbers across the country which has resulted in a substantial reduction of planning approvals between 2010 and 2015 according to the Freedom of Information Act.

Last year only 120,000 new homes were built across the UK, which is less than 50% of the amount needed to help solve the present housing crisis. Continue reading →

The fact that we are number two in the medals table in the Rio Olympics 2016 is a further indication that when this country applies its mind to do something, we are extremely good at it. Just look at how efficient and exciting our version of The Olympics was in London 2012. The infrastructure was ready a year before it was needed and presently we are utilizing all these facilities originally built for the event for good causes, when most other countries leave them to ‘lie fallow and decay’ whilst they ‘nurse’ the cost of the event itself for many years afterwards. Continue reading →

Since time immemorial, gazumping and gazundering has been the scourge of the Property Market, it is costly and very irritating to buyer and seller alike. So what is the answer?

The problem lies in the protracted time taken between agreement of terms, the obtaining of a mortgage offer and a structural survey which leads to the consolidation, by way of an exchange of binding contracts, where a non-refundable deposit is paid. Continue reading →