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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

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Civil matter Questions

We want to put up a fence between our garden and next door’s. I understand that the “good” side of the fence has to face the neighbouring property if it’’s on the boundary line, but does this law still apply if the fence is completely on our side and doesn’’t touch the boundary?

I am a pensioner who gets someone in to mow my lawn and generally tidy up my garden. Is it true that if someone does this on a regular basis they can claim the land after a number of years?

I bought a house jointly with my fiancé, putting down a deposit of £6,000. I never actually moved in and we split up six months later. I gave him the option of buying me out, and when nothing happened I insisted it was put on the market but he’’s making no effort to sell.

My daughter is a tenant and has been complaining about the boiler for two years. The gas certificate was six months out of date, and the gas board have now condemned the boiler saying my daughter and her children are lucky to be alive. Can she sue the landlord for endangering their lives?

My tenants disappeared overnight owing me £1400 and taking with them the water heater and a number of electrical fittings. They stopped paying their rent in January, saying they were claiming housing benefit and that I would be paid by the council. I have tracked them down, but I know their business went bust so would I be throwing good money after bad by taking them to court?

We recently bought an oil-fired combined cooker and central heating boiler. We were concerned that it would be noisy, but went ahead with the purchase after the manager of the shop gave us a demonstration in the showroom. When the cooker was installed it was so noisy we went back to the shop, only to discover that the demonstration model was gas-fired! Do we have any right to ask them to change the cooker?

I have applied to buy my council house, but the property has been suffering from subsidence. The council surveyor inspected the house about a year ago and I asked for a copy of his report, but I’’ve now been told I’’m not entitled to see it.

My daughter’s next door neighbour has put a padlocked gate across the access road at the back of her house which she bought from the council two years ago. The neighbour has given keys to the owners of the houses further down the lane who are directly affected, but it means workmen, window cleaners and the like can’’t get through.

When I was about to move house I paid a builder a deposit of £2,000 for materials, but a short time later I discovered he had declared himself bankrupt. I know his wife has just come into a large inheritance: they have a number of horses, more than one car and a mobile home, but the builder’s trustee in bankruptcy doesn’t seem to have uncovered any of this.

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