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RICS Residential Market Update | August 2021
It’s time to look at the latest RICS Residential Property Market Survey, which is for August. Not surprisingly the survey…
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RICS Residential Market Update | July 2021
The RICS July 2021 Residential Market survey shows a softer month for new activity, following on from the preceding months…
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Property Manager Appointment
Following the acquisition of long-established Altrincham based Morrison Property Services by Oakwood in November 2020, the management and agency business…
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Events | Summer 2021
After what has been a year of very little face-to-face social and business interaction, Oakwood have pushed the boat out…
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RICS Residential Market Update | May 2021
It is not surprising that the RICS Market report for May 2021 shows a widening disparity between demand and supply…
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Oakwood Expansion Continues
Altrincham based property advisers Oakwood Valuation Surveyors is continuing its growth with the appointment of a new director. Chartered Surveyor…
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What to Expect Following the Stamp Duty Holiday
Without doubt the stamp duty holiday introduced by Rishi Sunak last year has been a huge success and helped build…
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Guidance for Clients, Tenants and Contractors – COVID-19
Oakwood Valuation Surveyors and Morrison Property Services are committed to following government guidance for working safely during the pandemic. …
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Keeping Up with Oakwood
From national fame to local purchases, there has been lots going on at Oakwood! To find out what we’ve been…
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Altrincham Property Advisor’s Expansion
Altrincham based chartered surveyors Oakwood Valuation Surveyors Ltd has purchased long established letting agency business Morrison Property Services, also based…
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Watchdog’s Report on the Letting Scammers
Whilst going out is currently a bit of a challenge, I watched last night’s One Show and was delighted by…
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Farm and Land Sales Update
The market for agricultural land has long since departed from mirroring the wider property market and general economy, being distorted…
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News Release- Surveyor Promotion
Altrincham based property experts Oakwood Valuation Surveyors have promoted office manager Lydia Sirovica to Graduate Surveyor, twelve months after she…
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RICS Residential Update -August 2020
It is perhaps with trepidation that we awaited the latest RICS Residential property update for August 2020, given the current…
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Taxing Your Home
The year is rattling on and we find ourselves at the 1st of September. Let’s hope the year ends quickly…
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Residential Market Update- Corona’s Impact
The RICS publishes a monthly market survey based on comments submitted to members active in the residential property market, many…
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Commercial Property Valuations – a Review
At Oakwood we are often asked by clients how a commercial property valuation is established. Hopefully the Valuation Methodology section…
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Access to Property
Most property owners have no issue with access to their property as it adjoins the public highway and there are…
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July Newsletter 2020
We have just released our latest newsletter, in which we take a look at some of the key changes to…
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Farm Succession Update
The one consistency in life is change and agriculture is not immune to it. In fact, the past few years…
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The New Normal – Property
What a few weeks it’s been, not only in the UK but globally. Lockdown has been tough on most people,…
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Residential Property Market Update – What will Coronavirus do to it?
The RICS reports monthly on the residential property market, gauging the sentiment of agents across the UK, looking at trends…
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Keep Calm and Adjust
The world has been a very strange place for the last few weeks with some massive impacts on our social…
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Charities Act Property Valuations
Having just completed a valuation under the Charities Act 2011 it occurs to me that a short blog on the…
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2020 Events and Seminars
12th February – Oakwood Clay Shooting Event. 20th February – Valuation Update Breakfast Seminar For Solicitors at Emirates Old Trafford….
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Commercial Property Update
The RICS Commercial Property Market survey for Q4 of 2019 has now been published and shows a reasonably steady market…
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Residential Property January 2020
So here we are rattling through a new decade with a new political era for Great Britain looming at the…
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2020 Property Resolutions
As the last of the turkey gets eaten and people drift back to work (those lucky enough to have a…
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Residential Property
Well 2019 draws to a close and it seems amazing that it’s twenty years since we were planning to welcome…
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Residential Landlords to Suffer Under Labour
The Labour manifesto has been published today, with swingeing plans for the Private Rented Sector (PRS). Landlords now have to…
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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY UPDATED – MIXED MESSAGES
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have recently published their latest commercial property survey covering quarter 3 of 2019. …
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Housing Market Unsurprisingly Subdued
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published its latest UK Residential Market Survey for September 2019. Unsurprisingly, given…
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How do I develop my land for housing?
It’s a frequent question from our clients here at Oakwood as they seek to add value to their property portfolios…
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When is a Valuation not a Valuation?
Oakwood Valuations Surveyors is a newly formed Altrincham based business covering the north west of England and North Wales. The…
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House prices – a valuer’s view
When working on a valuation we refer to various data on the state of the market. We have to consider…
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