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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 neighbours are elderly and a bit dotty. They complain about all sorts of things, and now they’ve trained two CCTV cameras on our house – one looking directly into our bathroom! Can we force them to take them down?

When I moved in with my partner I bought a half share of his house, paying off his mortgage and becoming tenants in common. I have now left, and wish to claim back my half share; the house is now worth double what it was then. He says he can’t afford to buy me out. Can you tell me what my position is? I do have another property, and his teenage daughter has said she wants to move in with him.

An old mill at the back of our houses has been converted into small units. When they built a car park they piled up earth round the edges of our gardens but they didn’t install any drainage. The result is that rainwater now comes through the mounds and floods our gardens. The landowners don’t seem to think it’s any concern of theirs.

The deeds to our property state that we have privet and blackthorn hedges dividing us from our neighbours on both sides of our bungalow. One of the neighbours wants to rip out the hedge and replace it with wooden fence panels. We don’t really want this to happen. Can we prevent them doing this?

I’m buying a house on my own, and I wondered whether my partner could lay claim to a share of it. My partner lives with me but he doesn’t contribute to anything.

I owned a house jointly with a relative and agreed to let him have my share at a discount for a quick sale. But four years later I’d received nothing, and eventually the court ordered the house to be sold. The relative died shortly afterwards, and I received some money in dribs and drabs, but most of it went on legal aid. Can I still pursue this?

We have been parking our cars in a common yard shared with a small workshop for more than 30 years. The workshop’s new owner says we can now park there only with his permission: he says the “right to pass and repass” mentioned in the deeds doesn’t include the use of cars. Have we acquired the right to park there?

A friend has recently discovered that the partner she lives with hasn’t declared that they are living together. She is worried sick about the amount she must owe in Council Tax. Where, or how, can she sort this out?

I live in a semi-detached house and have driven over next door’s land to get to my house for about 35 years. As the neighbours are relatives I never asked permission and no-one ever objected. Eight years ago I gave the house to my daughter. Now next door is up for sale and the estate agent says that the 20 years’ use rule was lost when I transferred the property. Does this rule apply to the individual or to property?

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