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

Our neighbour has planted a row of coniferous trees against the fence between our properties, which is less than three metres from our kitchen window. At the moment they are 2.5 metres high and flourishing and will make our house dark as they grow taller. What can we do legally? What would happen if I chopped them down from our side?

We live in a pleasant and quiet cul-de-sac of terraced houses next to a lovely park. Recently a man who runs burger stands and mobile hot food vans has moved in, and he leaves these parked outside people’s houses for days on end, and refuses to move them. Is there anything we can do about it?

We sold our house and rented a property last year. Since then we’ve bought a house to refurbish and sell (although we’re still living in the rented property), and are now about to buy a home for ourselves. Will we have to pay the new increase in stamp duty?

When a bank repossesses a house, do they have to fill in a property information form when they come to sell it? If we’d bought our house in the normal way I imagine we’d have been alerted about a long-running dispute with a neighbour.

I would like to buy my freehold. Is there a way that I can find out who holds the deeds for my house?

The owner of the house on the end of our terraced row has fenced off part of the unadopted road behind our properties, so in order to reach the back of our house we now have to go round the other way. There is no talking to him. Is there anything we can do?

Has the local council any obligation to maintain what it terms a “private lane”? The lane serves three cottages, and for much of the time it better resembles a stream since water pours down it from old workings above the houses. Years ago the council built a pipeline to take some of the water away, although it insisted it was not obliged to do so.

We bought a house on a private road and were told the road itself would be completed when three other houses had been built. There’s no sign of the road being made up, but the builder says he will file for bankruptcy if we take the matter further.

I owned a bungalow with two acres of land. In 2009 I sold the land and made an agreement that if it was developed for housing I would receive 50 per cent of the net profit. Two years later I sold the bungalow. This year the builder paid me to end our agreement, but the new owners of the bungalow say there’s a covenant in their title deeds which says the builder must pay them to end the agreement, not me.

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