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Kept on a short lease

September 26, 2014 News No Comments
Kept on a short lease

One of the options available to a purchaser of a property is leasehold against freehold. Following extensive research – which largely involves sitting on the edge of the bed first thing in the morning, drinking coffee and watching Lucy Alexander in Homes Under The Hammer) – it seems that lenders are somewhat wary of short […]

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Why is the tower at Pisa leaning?

September 4, 2014 News No Comments
Why is the tower at Pisa leaning?

I’ve been playing around with the foundations on a building and it’s getting a bit fraught – and not for engineering reasons. The superstructure has been designed the project engineer yet the foundations are to be contractor designed, hence designed by a second engineer. I find this odd for many reasons. Firstly, the ground conditions […]

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