Conveyancing is a complicated business sometimes.   Whilst plenty of houses have little on their title but the address and the name of the owner,  there are also, at the other end of the scale, the exam question style properties,  the ones that have bats, and crested newts in the pond, and which are...

We’d like you to cast your minds back.  Forget, for a moment, lockdown, tier restrictions, face masks and Covid-19. Instead, we’d like you to place yourself back in November 2019, when we were all freely gallivanting around in groups of six or more awaiting the General Election. (Yes, that really wa...

We’re two decades into the twenty-first century and have access to all sorts of futuristic tools and tech to prove it. Tiny pocket computers known as smartphones? Check! Doorbells that can ping us on said smartphones however far we happen to be from said doorbells? Check! 3D printers that can print ...

Back in June we wrote an article about the ongoing cladding scandaland the fact that property in many high-rise buildings had essentially become unsellable. The stalemate was that mortgage companies were (unsurprisingly!) not keen to lend money to purchase flats in potentially unsafely clad building...

It’s not easy to get on the property ladder. Even before you add in the complicating factors of conveyancing and contract law, there’s the not-at-all-small issue of actually being able to afford it. Studies have shown that it’s cheaper to pay a monthly mortgage than to rent a comparable property, an...

Many of us have spent the lion’s share of the last six months trying to juggle remote working, home-schooling children and dealing with a general sense of existential angst. Sounds like overreaching, no? Though we don’t doubt it feels that way… that’s not quite the sort of overreaching we were think...

If you’ve had anything to do with house-hunting recently, you’ll likely be familiar with energy performance certificates (better known as EPCs). If you’re unsure, they’re the brightly coloured charts that usually come up once you’ve finished flicking through all the interior photos on Rightmove. Som...

Unsurprisingly enough, we talk a lot about property transactions around here. From joint ownership to leasehold reform, to septic tanks and radon searches… you may be of the opinion that we’re always banging on about it. Of course, we’d argue there’s good reason for this. Buying a property – whether...

Given the news recently, and Rishi Sunak’s summer budget, everyone we speak to knows that there is something going on with Stamp Duty. Our article https://landandlaw.co.uk/stamp-duty-holiday-announcement/ deals with the threshold updates.    For the record, this is not the sort of exciting topic tha...

There’s a bit of good news today for those in the process of buying a new property or those who are thinking of doing so in the next nine months. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the government will be temporarily scrapping Stamp Duty Land Tax payments on all purchases up to the value of [&...