Property
A Guide to Buying Your Property
The thirteen steps of a purchase, from booking deposit to keys, plus stamp duty, BER and what a purchase costs.
Resources
Guides and Checklists
Buying a house, making a will, taking on staff, administering an estate: these are the things clients ask us about most. Each guide sets out what happens at each stage, what it costs, and what to bring to your first meeting with us.
- Property
A Guide to Selling Your Property
The ten steps of a sale, the BER certificate, capital gains tax, local property tax, and what a sale costs.
- Wills & estates
Your Guide to Making a Will
Why you need a will, when to update it, choosing executors and guardians, the kinds of gift you can make, and inheritance tax.
- Wills & estates
Administration of Estates
What the estate is, what a personal representative does, how a grant of representation works, how long it takes, and what happens where there is no will.
- Employment
Ten Employment Tips Everyone Should Know
Contracts, equality, working time, family friendly rights, holidays, bullying, transfer of undertakings, unfair dismissal and redundancy.
- Business
Starting a Business: The Progression Cycle
A working checklist of the legal steps a new business meets, from business plan and incorporation through to funding and exit.
- Property
Sources of Planning Exemption
Which works count as exempt development, where the exemptions come from, and why it matters on a sale or purchase.
- Property
Building Control: What BCMS Means for You
Commencement notices, certificates of compliance on completion, and the statutory register introduced in 2014.
- Property
Residential Tenancies: A Tenant's Obligations
A plain-English summary of the obligations section 16 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 places on tenants.
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