Matthew Cumber is managing director of Countrywide Surveying Services
The world continues to change at pace around us. Imagine travelling back to this date in 2020 and having the timeline for the next 12 months laid out in front of you.
It would be a terrifying prospect and you could be forgiven for thinking that it had been lifted from a Hollywood disaster movie – I’m looking at you Contagion.
The property and mortgage markets have always proved to be fast paced, but recent times have been akin to a whirlwind.
Thankfully, this is slowing somewhat, allowing the government to assess and act on two major issues which have impacted housing, valuations and surveying in recent times.