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OUR PATCH SPRING 2018
HOUSE!
may uncover bigger issues,” said John
who set up O’Neill Chartered Surveyors
three years ago after 30 years experience
working in large practices.
Architect Ivan Lazzaroni said that
typically, downsizers were looking to
buy for half the value of their current
home. The director of Omnide said his
company works on maximising the
resale or rentable value by optimising
layout, subdividing into flats, making it
into a house in multiple occupation,
building on, or creating a separate
dwelling in the garden.
Ivan, who lives in Chiswick, said that
clients were also do wnsizing the number
of rooms they have too. “We are
increasingly being asked to change spare
bedrooms into an en suite and walk-in
closet, which actually improves the
quality of the property and makes it
much more comfortable, desirable and
more saleable.”
Matthew Ryder of Ash Island
Lofts said his company had recently
completed a loft conversion for a family
who had moved from a large property
in Bath to a Victorian townhouse
maisonette in Chiswick. They had
downsized from their country home,
but still needed the extra space that a
loft conversion could give them.
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A typical W6 cottage
“We added another floor to the
semi-detached Victorian maisonette
giving them an additional bedroom and
shower – so their property went from
two levels to three, and two bedrooms
to three,” said Matt who started the
Chiswick Park based company with his
business partner Lloyd Taylor in 2012.
“Some people have had loft
conversions done for their nannies or
au pairs,” said Matthew. “But equally,
they can have them done for a live-in
carer or other family member.”
Another job for a downsizer was for
someone who moved to a one-bed,
ground floor flat in Shepherds Bush.
“We converted the space into a two
bedroom, two bathroom flat with the
addition of a side-return extension,”
he explained.
Matthew Ryder
Ash Island Lofts (Chiswick W4)
[email protected]
07595 002804
ashislandlofts.co.uk
THE SURVEYOR:
John O’ Neill
O’Neill Chartered Surveyors
[email protected]
07495 620550
oneillsurveyors.co.uk
THE PLANNING CONSULTANT:
Yussuf Mwanza
MZA Planning
[email protected]
020 8995 7848
mzaplanning.com
THE ARCHITECT:
Ivan Lazzaroni
Omnide
[email protected]
07726 729043
omnide.com