PROPERTY
Domestic Conveyancing
We can help to guide you through the confusion and complexity involved in buying and selling your house.
We recommend that you contact us as soon as possible after you have decided to embark upon these transactions. We can then give you independent advice in connection with surveys and valuations, mortgages, deposits, life assurance, estate agents and a number of other features about which you will need to know.
We shall explain to you in outline the steps which will be involved, from the initial stages of obtaining the title deeds and preparing a draft contract on your sale, to completing the transaction on the date when you move into your new home. Thereafter, of course, we shall deal with all the necessary stamping of the purchase deed, registration of your title, giving notice of the transfer in the case of leasehold properties, dealing with the issue of a new share certificate where a management company is involved and generally ensuring that all the necessary procedures have been complied with on your behalf.
If after the transactions have been completed you need to take advice with regard to your obligations under any covenants which may affect the property, the buildings insurance, boundary rights and so on, we are available to assist you.
Commercial Conveyancing
For our business clients our services extend to the sale and purchase of business premises which would normally include offices, shops, factories, warehouses and so on. This may also involve granting to a tenant or taking from a landlord a lease of commercial premises and assistance in the very complex procedures concerning renewal, rent reviews, dilapidations and the many obligations normally taken on by a tenant of business premises.
In dealing with business premises we can also offer essential advice on related topics such as town and country planning, insurance, taxation and, in the case of builder clients, the many features which must be considered before commencing a development, such as the closure and diverting of roads and rights of way, drainage rights, the making up of roads and agreements with the local authorities, ten-year guarantee certificates to be issued by the N.H.B.C. and a number of other commercial and domestic considerations.
Leases and Tenancy Agreements
Leases and tenancy agreements cover a wide range of situations and can vary from medium term leases of commercial premises such as department stores, office blocks and factory premises, to shorter term leases of shops and offices, domestic leases for the letting of a house, short term tenancy agreements, agricultural tenancies, tenancies of allotment gardens and even licences to occupy.
The law relating to landlord and tenant in both business and domestic properties is extremely technical and the regulations relating to them must be strictly observed if the client's interests are to be best protected.
We can advise and prepare leases and tenancy agreements for you whether you are a landlord or a tenant, deal with rent reviews, renewals, claims for dilapidations, proceedings for possession, arrears of rent, breaches of covenant, for example to repair and insure, or to use only in a specified manner, and generally advise you on all aspects of your lease or tenancy.
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