Legal

Question: I live with my partner and at the moment the deeds to the house are purely in my partner’s name, can my name be added to the deeds of the property and if so how do we go about it.

Question: I came across your website while looking into a problem I have with a recently purchased flat my partner and I bought in London. Since moving in we have had HUGE problems with noisy neighbours in the

Question: I am purchasing a property from my Sister. I had appointed a solicitor for the purchase, but, after obtaining all the search documents (and paying £250 deposit) my sister was informed that the s

Question: I have a query, as I am currently a first time buyer in the process of buying a brand new property. We are purchasing the property from plan and have placed a holding deposit with the builder. At the

Question: Can you please explain to me what ""transfers by exchange before the properties are transferred on to the new owner"“. On the Land Registry, a house appears to get sold twice with

Question: I own the freehold of a property and wish to grant a new lease, how do I go about this?

Question: I am going to sell my leasehold flat to my freeholders. What will I need to pay for in the way of conveyancing?

Question: My father and mother are both living with us permanently - and they are ready to sell their property, in the North. We already have a buyer (current tenant) - so don’t need to get an estate agen

Question: Can I sell my 350K house to my friend for 250K so that he saves 7,500 in stamp duty. The rest of the money (100K), he will give to me in cash. Is this legal?

Question: We have found a house we want to buy at £375K. The owners of the house want to buy our house for £575K. What is the position on stamp duty for both parties? Are there any other considerati

Question: I have recently moved house and found the central heating system not to be working correctly even though the seller stated that it was in good working order on the 'Additional Enquiries before Contrac

Question: We were involved in a chain which collapsed near exchange last year and the solicitor billed us for almost the full amount. But the same thing happened to a friend and her solicitor waited until she h

Question: I am purchasing a bungalow privately from an associate of mine. Can we both share the same conveyance/solicitors or is there a conflict of interest?

Question: We are buying a house without selling ours. We wanted to exchange and complete and then allow the vendor to remain on in the property for 2 months, are there a way to construct an agreement which woul

Question: We have been told by 2 solicitors that the law changed in 2003 and that both parties now pay full stamp duty.

Question: I need some advice on buying a property. I am married and living with my husband in a council flat which is on my husbands name. My name also added in the tenancy agreement. Now I want to buy a proper

Question: We have found a house we really want to buy, although we have not yet sold our house (we have had an offer that was short of the price we wanted and we are confident we will sell relatively soon). We

Question: If our neighbour has taken 3-4ft of our land that we are paying a mortgage for, and they are council tenants, can we charge ground rent if they are not willing to give it back? If so do we charge the

Question: We have had our house on sale for 14months & have just changed estate agents. The new agents we had round left copies of the contract for me to sign & return to them along with my ID which I d

Question: I am currently in the process of purchasing a flat in London. I am doing my own Conveyancing; I have been sent the Draft Contract, Lease, Registry and other documents. Firstly I wish to know whether a

Question: I have just found a derelict property which to my knowledge has been empty for over 10 years (probably more). Land registry has no records of the property, so I would like to know what the 'legal' pro

Question: I bought a property for £150,000 in June, 2006.  The local search carried out by my Solicitor revealed no plans for the immediate surrounding area.   However, to my horror, shortly

Question: We bought our house in January this year. We had no problems with the surveyors report and all went smoothly. Our solicitor reported no issues with the property. Since moving in, we have discovere