Having just completed a valuation under the Charities Act 2011 it occurs to me that a short blog on the subject would be worthwhile. The amount of property left to charity is staggering, from small parcels of land to large houses, farms, development sites – the...
The RICS Commercial Property Market survey for Q4 of 2019 has now been published and shows a reasonably steady market with occupier and investment demand continuing to rise. Not surprisingly the retail sector continues to underperform and growth expectations are...
As the last of the turkey gets eaten and people drift back to work (those lucky enough to have a couple of weeks off), many people reflect about their aims and ambitions for the coming year. For lots of us it might be joining a gym or planning some exciting...
Well 2019 draws to a close and it seems amazing that it’s twenty years since we were planning to welcome in the new millennium. So much has happened in that time, and we can hardly say that 2019 was uneventful, certainly from a political point of view. It is...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have recently published their latest commercial property survey covering quarter 3 of 2019. The survey invites surveyors to provide comments based on their experiences of the market. The message for Q3 is very...
Oakwood Valuations Surveyors is a newly formed Altrincham based business covering the north west of England and North Wales. The man behind the firm is chartered surveyor and Registered Valuer Graham Bowcock. Graham has been advising clients on property matters in the...
