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2018 was a challenging year for farming and for the farmland market.
A late spring and uncertainty over Brexit and the Agriculture Act dampened enthusiasm in farming communities. Land prices had fallen for the previous three years and further falls were widely predicted. Why buy this year when the same commodity could be cheaper next year?…
The world of residential lettings is ever changing with new rules and regulations being introduced all the time. It can be quite confusing so to help we have summarised all changes and highlighted what you need to be aware of.
The lettings market
We let 38% more properties last year. However, this year the market is stalling a little due to Brexit which is seeing more tenants staying put…
Tenant fees were banned with effect from 1st June 2019 meaning that all letting agents had to review their charges and update their marketing accordingly.
Kellie Marsh, Residential Lettings Manager at Robinson & Hall comments “The ban of tenant fees has caused turmoil for some letting agents. The removal of tenant fees could impact their business quite significantly, particularly for those…
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has recently launched a paper outlining the proposals put forward by the Tenancy Reform Industry Group (TRIG).
TRIG advises on measures that assist the tenanted sector within the agricultural industry and includes representatives from various professional bodies such as the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and National Farmers' Union of England and Wales (NFU)…
2018 saw our party wall surveyors involved in over 80 Party Wall Awards and related matters. These ranged from rear extensions to semi-detached houses to a cinema in Luton being converted into 66 apartments.
Recent experience has shown four key areas of misunderstanding…
The recent Spring Statement confirmed that the Government would be introducing a package of new reforms to allow greater changes of use between premises. In a subsequent written ministerial statement, Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary, James Brokenshire, confirmed the following:
Auction House, the UK’s leading national and regional property auctioneer, has delivered its best ever first quarter sales in the 12 year history of the company.
The group sold 762 lots between January and March 2019, up 5.5% on the previous year, at a success rate of 74.4% and raising £87.9 million in the process…
We are delighted to announce that Tessa Smith joined us this month as Commercial Property Surveyor.
After graduating from Harper Adams University with a BSc (Hons) in Rural Enterprise and Land Management, Tessa then worked for a national telecoms company as a Graduate Commercial Property Surveyor where she became a Chartered Surveyor. She then spent the last 18 months working for a commercial surveying firm in London…
We often receive planning jobs whereby the individual has attempted to apply for planning themselves and they now require our help. Abel Bunu, Senior Planner at Robinson & Hall, explains why it is important to use a planning consultant from the outset when applying for planning permission.
Despite reports of doom and gloom in the property market, the latest Auction House figures suggest that buying and selling through regional auctions has not been affected by Brexit.
Not only has the group – which operates as Auction House Robinson & Hall in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire – entered more lots into its first round of auctions than last year (802 compared to 754), but the first six sales of the year delivered an astonishing success rate of over 80%.
