June 10th, 2018
Assessing the Safety of High-Rise Buildings
by Phil Parnham MRICS A year on from Grenfell Tower The fire at London’s Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017 was a human tragedy. As the disaster continues to be covered by the…
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June 10th, 2018
The Fitness for Human Habitation Bill
Hilary Grayson BSc Est Man (Hons) – Director of Surveying Services, SavaFiona Haggett BSc (Hons) FRICS – Director of Operations, BlueBox Partners Please note: This article was originally published in July 2018. In…
June 10th, 2018
Rodent Infestations – Identifying and Reporting
by Sava Technical Team & Phil Parnham MRICS, Director, BlueBox PartnersAt Sava, we handle complaints on behalf of surveyors on a regular basis and from direct experience know that homeowners are not best…
April 17th, 2018
Ground Rents – the Calm Before the Storm
Looking at the future of ground rents by Duncan Greenwood, Partner DAC Beachcroft The topic of ground rents has had a huge amount of attention over the last 12 months, culminating in the…
April 16th, 2018
Fires Due to Faults in Electrical Cables
1.0 IntroductionAccording to a report in the Guardian Newspaper in August this year (and following the Grenfell Fire) it was reported by the London Fire Brigade that nearly one fire a day in…
April 13th, 2018
Technical Bulletin 28 – April 2018
Technical Bulletin 28 features articles on the following: – The Abuse of Leasehold Interests– Ground Rents: The Calm Before the Storm?– Pitched Fibre Drains – Part 2– Valuing Development Sites: Lessons Learned– Tiuta…
April 10th, 2018
Valuing Development Sites – Lessons Learned
The lessons that can be learned from Dunfermline Building Society v CBRE Ltd by Chris Rispin, Managing Director, BlueBox Partners In 2017, a claim was heard for a breach of professional negligence by CBRE…
April 10th, 2018
Two Valuations of a Residential Development
Tiuta International v De Villiers Surveyors [2017] UKSC 77 by Duncan Greenwood & Charlie Bending, Partners, DAC Beechcroft The claim (Tiuta International v De Villiers Surveyors [2017] UKSC 77) under discussion involved two…
April 10th, 2018
The Abuse of Leasehold Interests
What should a valuer consider? By Chris Rispin Managing Direction, BlueBox Partners Leasehold remains the number one concern for homeowners in the UK. Recent research by DAC Beachcroft (international firm of lawyers specialising…
April 10th, 2018
Pitched Fibre Drains (Part 2)
How and when to report RICS’s pitched fibre drain productsby Phil Parnham, Director, BlueBox Partners IntroductionPhil Parnham, director of BlueBox Partners, follows on from the pitched fibre drain article in Issue 27 of…