Articles in ‘Property Conveyancing’ Category

If your property or land adjacent to it has Japanese Knotweed, it may be difficult for buyers to secure finance. This article sets out why Japanese Knotweed is such a problem and what property…

Co-authored by Abby Campbell – Legal Admin Apprentice for Residential Property, Farms & Estates

The rules relating to adverse possession over unregistered land can be complicated. Below is a simple and brief summary of the relevant steps one needs to take when applying for adverse possession over unregistered…

RWK Goodman has announced that Sonal Ghelani has joined their residential property, farms and estates team as a partner. Based in the London office, Sonal, who joins from Bolt Burdon Solicitors, has spent the…

Undertakings are a cornerstone of residential conveyancing because they allow solicitors to rely on each other’s clear and enforceable promises, often relating to steps that must occur after completion, such as redeeming an existing…

You can also listen to our podcast on your podcast platform of choice – find it here > Welcome to this episode. In today’s episode, we are talking about residential property, what the market’s…

We spoke to a few contributors who were actually part of our Mind the Gap report into the residential property market of Oxfordshire and Bath. So our guests, or we should say interviewees for…

What is a transaction at an undervalue? A transaction at an undervalue is, in simple terms, a transaction where an individual or corporate entity acquires a property for less than its market value. For…

In recent years we’ve seen a trend of more and more people working from home. But did you know that in the case of rented property, this can change the legal relationship between the landlord and tenant, from a residential tenancy to a business one?

The Estate Agents Act 1979 (“the Act”) has been with us for some 34 years, the major part  coming into force in May 1982. The important Regulations referred to at Section 18 of the Act came into force on 29 July 1991 (“the Regulations”) . So there really should be no surprises and no reasons for disputes over when a person acting as an estate agent is entitled to a commission, and how much they should be paid, and yet disputes continue and commissions are lost.