Residential Property

In deciding on the meaning of agreements regarding the construction and sale of a residential property, the Court of Appeal has ruled that £35,000 retained from the purchase price should...

Under the law of adverse possession (‘squatter’s rights’), the legal ownership of land may be able to be claimed if it is occupied for a long period of time without...

Householders whose homes suffered storm and flood damage reluctantly found themselves at the epicentre of a High Court case in which they defeated claims that they should be held personally...

A firm of surveyors which carried out valuations that overstated the value of three properties found itself defending an action for negligence recently. The surveyors had issued valuations on...

A homeowner who was fined £960 after he failed to comply with a local authority enforcement notice requiring him to demolish an unauthorised extension to his property has lost an...

In these straitened times, it is regrettably not uncommon for a buyer to withdraw from the purchase of a property after a legal agreement to purchase has been completed. ...

When land is owned in trust for the benefit of more than one person, the question of what should be done with it can be the source of dispute. Often,...

A couple who defaulted on their £500,000 mortgage have failed to convince the High Court that the loan is unenforceable by reason of the lender’s failure to comply with the...

When a planning appeal to which the National Trust was a party came before the court and the judge due to hear it was a member of the Trust, he...

Facing the possibility of a development on neighbouring land that will reduce your light is never welcome and the threat of such a development is not something you might care...