Areas of Law / Property

Whether you are buying a property, moving house or selling your property on, for many this is one of the biggest financial decisions you can make in life, and can often be a stressful process.

The last thing you need is complicated legal jargon to add to the mix. The right expert legal support can make the whole property process quicker and easier for you.

Once you’ve got the keys to that dream property, its natural that your top priority will be to protect it. When property disputes arise, life can suddenly become stressful. Whether you are a home owner, a landlord or a tenant, we understand that property disputes can be unpleasant and highly complicated, and you need the right legal advice to guide you through the process.

Residential property law can cover a wide range of areas, including:

  • Buying or selling your home
  • Compulsory purchases
  • Deeds of Gift
  • Property Disputes
  • Part-Exchanges
  • Re-Mortgages
  • Right to Buy
  • Transfers of Equity

From home hunter queries to house-builder advice or neighbour disputes, we have wide-ranging experience in the day-to-day and the complexities of property law; so everything you need to get moving is right here. Our bank of free questions and answers can provide a wide range of legal advice with regards to residential property and your rights.

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Property Questions

A firm of developers has started building houses about five feet from our boundary wall. According to the plans the closest house will have windows looking into three of our bedrooms and will destroy the privacy of our garden. Is there anything we can do?

I sold a piece of land in 1990 to developers who built houses on part of it. They also built on some of my land that I didn’’t sell to them, but I didn’’t discover this until recently. I would like to have the land returned. How would I go about doing this?

A neighbouring property has been sold after the owner died. Because of a long-standing problem I need to know who the new owner is, but the sale has not been registered at the Land Registry. Surely this is illegal?

Three years ago we moved into a detached house with a driveway down one side and a path down the other. The current owners of the house next door have used the path for ten years, and the previous owners did so before them. We don’t mind the neighbours using the path but it has been suggested to us that we could eventually lose the land if this continues.

I live in a large house in a nice area but the property needs considerable modernisation. I would like to sell, and have been offered a deal by a developer who says he will give me £10,000 less than the valuation. Does that sound reasonable? Who does the valuation?

I am considering buying the land on which my house is built. Could you tell me who I should write to to obtain the necessary forms, and if possible how much it will cost?

I put in an offer to buy a house and was told by the vendor that I would be given first refusal. Although I suggested she should take advice, she later confirmed our agreement and the price, so I forwarded the agreed deposit and signed the contract document. She later reneged on the agreement and sold the house to someone else. Do I have a case against the vendor for compensation?

I bought some land 40 years ago which had a disused public footpath running across it. I built a bungalow on the land, but a few years ago the council told me I had no right to block the footpath, even though it runs through my garden. They now want £450 to divert a disused footpath.

We have applied to buy a field at the back of our house from the council, however a condition of the sale is that we would be responsible for a culverted stream that runs the length of the land. The pipe already leaks, and if we had to replace it, it could cost us thousands. What will be the extent of our responsibility if we buy the land?

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