Residential Property

• Don’t Even Think About Doing a Property Deal Without Legal Advice

  • Posted12 September 2019

  Property purchases are, for the majority of people, the highest-value deals they ever enter into and that is why they should never be undertaken in haste or without expert legal...

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• Restrictive Covenants Can Go Undetected – Use an Expert Conveyancer!

  • Posted28 August 2019

  Covenants that restrict the use to which properties can be put lurk undetected within many title deeds and can have a dramatic impact on a property’s value. That was certainly...

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• Instruction Sufficient to Allow Third Party Reliance on Arrangements

  • Posted5 August 2019

  The purchase of properties abroad is a process that can be replete with disputes and financial losses for the unwary or unadvised. Whilst some foreign countries have presented few issues,...

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• Tree Felling Without Permission Proves Expensive

  • Posted23 July 2019

  Ignoring tree preservation orders can prove to be a very expensive mistake and if your property has a protected tree on it, you should make sure any order is understood...

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• Rules are Rules

  • Posted10 July 2019

  A recent case should serve as a reminder that rules are rules and ‘close enough’ often isn’t! The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 states...

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• Failure to Challenge Repaving Results in Loss of Title

  • Posted20 June 2019

  Failing to take active steps to protect your land from use by another can produce unfortunate effects, as a couple from York discovered recently. The couple own a bungalow...

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