Residential Property

• The Perils of Incautious Auction Purchase

  • Posted4 March 2013

  A High Court ruling has underlined the dangers inherent in purchasing property at auction without taking proper legal advice. A disabled woman is facing a financial catastrophe after she made...

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• Non-Compliance With Court Order Leads to Fine

  • Posted20 February 2013

  A dispute between two landowners that lasted several years seems to have finally ended, with one of them being fined for failing to comply with a court order. The...

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• Inaccurate Sale Particulars Lead to Repayment Order

  • Posted5 February 2013

  In a ruling which illustrates the pitfalls of inaccurate land sale particulars, members of a family who sold their vegetable patch to a developer for more than £150,000 have been...

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• Squatters – What to Do Now

  • Posted23 January 2013

  Although it has been widely reported that recent changes to the law make squatting in residential premises a criminal offence for the first time, this is not strictly true. Refusing...

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• Council Not Liable for Tree Roots Subsidence

  • Posted10 January 2013

  A property owner whose Victorian townhouse was severely affected by subsidence has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that the local authority and a housing association (the respondents) should...

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• Reasonable Decision Confirmed by Court of Appeal in House Defects Case

  • Posted19 December 2012

  When the owners of houses that were built on piles discovered that the walls of their properties were cracking, they established that the reason for the problem was that the...

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