March 2018
We remain busy despite the
economic problems that face the UK and indeed many European economies. The UK residential
market has been affected by stamp duty and regulation for foreign investors and
the owning of second homes. General purchase activity is down. The London
market has seen top end values tail off over the last two years although there
are some signs of increasing activity this year.
There is an increase in work in
extension and refurbishment of existing property most of which involves party
wall work in central London. The increases in stamp duty and the increasing
values on which this tax is levied have made it prohibitively expensive to move
and hence the significant increase in people upsizing by carrying out major
work to their own homes. All of this has conspired to increase the workload of
surveyors dealing with party wall matters and thankfully we are amongst them.
We have experienced a falloff in purchase building inspection instructions but
over the last month or so these have increased.
Our Management Building Surveying
work continues and we have numerous instructions in the fields of Licenses for
Alterations, repairs and maintenance of multi occupied buildings, reinstatement
valuations and general advice to leaseholders. We work with a number of
managing agents particularly in the field of lessee jointly owned freeholds.
Our move to Devon has opened up
our activity in the West Country where we have had a small survey and advisory presence
in the market for a number of years. Our
office move to Braunton has changed our mode of operation but the majority of
our work remains in central London and in particular around Kensington &
Chelsea, Notting Hill, Bayswater and Maida Vale. Our survey work has however opened
up with recent commissions in North and East Devon and Dorset.
We no longer carry out Market
Valuation work.
Marshall Land &
Property Associates
is rooted in the professional side of the property business. As Chartered
Building Surveyors Our day to day work is in the areas of party wall
agreements, management building surveying, including advice on repair and
maintenance, insurance valuation, defect identification and Licenses for
Alterations. We have been involved in reinstatement work with loss adjusters on
flood and fire damaged property.
We have an informal association
with the AIM listed Baqus Construction Consultancy Group which has led to
collaboration on reinstatement insurance work and may, in future, further the
services MLPA can offer and allow us to work in areas and at levels that we
have not previously moved in. The Baqus group gives a national coverage through
their country wide office network.
June 2017
We moved from 24 Adam & Eve
Mews where we had been based since December 2013. Our office is now in North
Devon with a contact address in Kensington, London W8. The majority of our work remains in London
Our Office address
is now PO Box 385, Braunton Devon EX32 2GY
We retain our
presence in Kensington at
First Floor, 239
Kensington High Street, London W8 6SA, which is our business correspondence
address
In both instances our
Telephone number is 020 3657 2570