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Graham Bowcock

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About Me

I am a chartered surveyor and registered valuer.

my expertise in the industry

I have 30+ years property experience, mainly in the residential sector. I have a mixed residential/office portfolio of my own.

I am a registered valuer, specialising in the unusual, which includes development sites and portfolios. I act as an Independent Expert on property matters.

Graham's Recent Activity

As a long term landlord, I contacted all my tenants in March to acknowledge the difficulties that we were all about to encounter. I said that if they had any issues with rent payment, not to stop paying but to speak to me first. So far only three have come forward and we have agreed short term plans to help them. If they're not going to pay, I'd like to be prepared for it (in terms of cash flow management). Luckily the vast majority have continued paying rent at the full rate on time, as a percentage I'm down no more than 102% on the last six months. I agree that rent has to be paid - I'm in business as a landlord - but if eviction is suspended (and takes time and money anyway), I'm happy to liaise with my tenants and hope we all come out the other side. Fundamentally I want them to stay, not go. None of us wanted the pandemic, but some of us are perhaps in a better position to see it out.

From: Graham Bowcock 09 September 2020 17:28 PM

This sentence seems far too light. Cases like this are reported far too often and give the industry a bad name. Presumably the firm had to reimburse the tenants' deposits so the tenants didn't lose out, only the firm. I am surprised about the firm's comment on moving money about when it is available. Surely the point of deposits is that they sit in a ring fenced account and do not get moved anywhere - this sounds like a recipe for disaster and enabled this lady to take advantage.

From: Graham Bowcock 01 February 2018 10:45 AM

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