All professional advisers are now looking at the aftermath of last week’s budget. It seems to be particularly hard on our farming clients with the plan to remove Agricultural Property Relief as we know it from Inheritance Tax. Working farmers have been able to...
EPC Reforms- What do Landlords need to know? What is an EPC rating? An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is a document that records a property’s energy efficiency rating using an ‘A’ –‘G’ grading scale where ‘A’ is the most efficient and ‘G’ the least. An EPC...
Oakwood can help! There could be many reasons for the sale of your rural property so it’s important to tailor your marketing approach to suit your property and circumstances. Rural property sales are often due to retirement, relocation or business reorganisation; at...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has reported a modest recovery in the UK housing market in February 2024. New buyer enquires rose for the second consecutive month and signals an upward trend in buyer demand. Supply of property coming the market has...
Altrincham based chartered surveyor firm Oakwood Property Services is pleased to announce that Associate Surveyor Lydia Sirovica has recently obtained distinction in a Post Graduate Diploma in Real Estate and Property Management from Salford University. Lydia joined...
I recently had the pleasure of exhibiting at an agricultural careers fair at Reaseheath College in Nantwich. Talking to the students and young farmers revealed just how many farmers’ children are looking at working outside of the family farm, even if only to gain...