Find here a list of the services we offer which relate to land, residential and property law.
If you need any further information on our services please contact us.
- Acquisition of land by adverse possession
- Acting for a Lender in securing or repaying a second or subsequent charge
- Acting for a Lender who is not a member of the Council of Mortgage Lenders
- Acting for charities
- Acting for guarantors
- Acting for insolvency practitioners
- Acting for the Court of Protection
- Acting on a case where the other side is not represented
- Acting where there is more than one Lender
- Advice on shared ownership and any Declaration of Trust
- Advice on tax other than Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Advice on rights to extend leasehold interest
- Advice on rights to collective enfranchisement of flats
- Advising on/obtaining an insurance indemnity policy (and reporting the position to your Lender and obtaining its consent and approval)
- Advice on additional SDLT
- Advising on/preparation of Deed of Variation in Leasehold property
- Advising on contaminated land and Radon gas
- Application for a Certificate of Lawful Use – planning
- Application for a personal Local Authority search
- Application for first registration
- Application to convert Good Leasehold title to Title Absolute
- Application to convert Possessory or Qualified title
- Applications to the Leasehold Valuations Tribunal
- Arranging bridging finance
- Arranging empty property insurance
- Arranging Local Authority search insurance
- Assignment of benefit of guarantees
- Auctions
- Banking problems on completion day
- Boundary disputes
- Boundary plans
- Breach of planning permission/building control regulations
- Breaches of contract
- Brine searches
- Chancel searches
- Claims against NHBC or similar insurances
- Clay mining searches
- Clearing cheques by special clearance to obtain cleared funds
- Coal mining searches
- Commercial or mixed use premises
- Commons searches
- Company searches
- Completion delay beyond contractual completion date
- Completion/post completion problems
- Compulsory purchase sales
- Conditional contracts
- Consideration of structural survey/engineer’s report
- Contract races
- Dealing with misrepresentations
- Death/bankruptcy of seller or buyer during the course of the transaction
- Declaration of Trust
- Deeds of Assignment
- Deeds of Covenant
- Deeds of Postponements on Remortgages
- ‘Deer Leap’ and ‘Freeboard’ licences
- Delays by a Lender in supplying all documents, including redemption statement(s)
- Delays by seller to provide all necessary documents
- Discharge or charge of mortgages over unrelated properties
- Disputes in relation to the contract
- Energy Performance Certificate- – arranging or advising
- Equity release loans
- Eviction of squatters
- Eviction of tenants
- Exchange of contracts within 21 days of delivery of draft contract and papers
- Fire (the results of)
- Flying freehold problems
- Foreign companies
- Grant of a new lease
- Grant of or report on Assured Shorthold tenancy agreement
- Grants of easements or obtaining new rights for a property
- Investigate the grantor of guarantee(s)
- Investigating/clarifying the result of any search
- Investigating public and private rights of way
- Investigation and where possible, rectification of title defect
- Issues arising from the negligence of other solicitors in the transaction
- ‘Key’ undertaking to enable access prior to completion/ with licence for works
- Lease extensions
- Licence to Assign
- Licence to carry out alterations
- Licence to occupy before completion
- Licence to Underlet
- Liquidation/receivership of corporate seller or buyer during the course of the transaction
- Lock out agreements
- Managing Agents enquiries
- Merger of leases
- Misdescription issues arising from estate agent particulars
- Missing deeds
- Mooring and berthing rights -investigation and clarification of
- Mortgage fraud and/or money laundering report with Mortgage fraud investigations
- Notice to Complete
- Notice to Quit
- Obtaining waiver or amendment to a Special or General Lenders mortgage condition
- Obtaining amendments to leases
- Obtaining architect’s certificates
- Obtaining assents from third parties to sales
- Obtaining clear ground rent receipt from Landlord where not provided
- Obtaining copies of old planning/building regulation consents where not provided
- Obtaining remuneration certificates
- Occupier consents required for contract/lender
- Option or pre-emption agreements s
- Personal attendance at third party premises e.g. Local authority/solicitors/agents
- Personal completions
- Personal inspection of the property
- Planning permission and building regulation requests.
- Power of Attorney
- Preparing Property Information questionnaire (PIQ)
- Private mortgages
- Purchase of additional land adjacent to the main property from a second vendor
- Purchase of plots for new build
- Purchase or Sale of Land not in England and Wales
- Reassignment of Life Assurance
- Reconstitution of title
- Registration of an Enduring Power of Attorney
- Registration of Disclosable Overriding Interests
- Registrations of Notices or Restrictions at the Land Registry
- Reporting to more than two clients
- Reserving mineral rights
- Resolving breach of existing covenants
- Revising completion or cash statements because of changed source of funds
- Sale or purchase of tenanted properties
- Sales of part of land
- Separate solicitors instructed by Lender
- Separation of a registered title
- Service charge retention
- Settled land
- Share transfer
- Shared ownership leases
- Simultaneous exchange of contracts and completion
- Sourcing block insurance details and up to date premium demand/payment
- Sourcing ground rent and service charge information
- Statutory declarations
- Sub Sales
- Sureties
