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Residential conveyancing

You may be buying your first home, selling a property or purchasing a holiday home.

Our specialist team deal with all aspects of residential conveyancing, whether you are buying or selling a property. They are qualified in all aspects of property law and ensure that all legal processes are dealt with correctly and that your transaction proceeds smoothly.

Our team are happy to provide you with a written quotation for our fees and detail the other costs that you will need to budget for in your sale or purchase.

Remortgaging

Whatever your reason for remortgaging, many of the same legal processes required to secure your original mortgage will apply on remortgaging.

An important aspect for many people remortgaging is that it is arranged quickly, especially if funds are required for a specific project. Our specialists will deal with the legal requirements as quickly as possible, while ensuring our first priority is always to protect your legal position.   

Buy to Let

If you are considering purchasing property with a view to using it for buy-to-let purposes, it is vital that you take expert legal advice. When you purchase a property for renting out you are effectively starting a small business by becoming a landlord. As a result you will need to find tenants, check their references, collect rent and deal with any tenant disputes.

Our specialist practitioners can guide you through your legal responsibilities, such as carrying out repairs, maintaining the safe supply of gas and electricity and ensuring fire safety regulations for premises and furnishings are met. We can also draw up tenancy agreements, deal with tenant disputes, termination of leases, including “Notices to quit”, and if required, instigate eviction procedures.

Tenancy and lease arrangements

We provide help and advice on all aspects of Landlord and Tenancy law, including preparation of tenancy agreements and arrangements to terminate leases. We also advise landlords on how to deal with difficult tenants and provide assistance for tenants whose landlords are acting outside the law, or ignoring their responsibilities to tenants. We can also provide assistance in resolving disputes for either party.   

HIPS

All properties marketed from 14th December 2007 require a Home Information Pack (HIP).

A basic HIP consists of a HIP index listing the contents of the HIP, a sale statement detailing the property and the legal interest being sold, a Local Authority search, an Energy Performance Certificate, a Water and Drainage Search, and Official Copies of the Title Registers (In addition, any ancillary title documentation if applicable) and a copy of the lease if applicable.

For those of you instruct us in respect of the sale of your property who do not already have a HIP package prepared, we can prepare one for you at cost price.

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