Residential Property Buyers & Sellers
Your experts
Few firms can match the depth of our expertise in advising families, investors and funders on all aspects of residential property. We can provide you with practical and expert advice on how to navigate the conveyancing process, extend your lease, refurbish your home through to the key tax and financing considerations.
Our market-leading personable residential property lawyers are perfectly placed to help you with your sale or purchase of a home in:
- Prime Central London, both period and new build, from luxury apartments to large town houses
- Country homes from large estates, country houses and cottages to farms
- Agricultural land as an addition to your existing home or as an investment in its own right
We ensure that our clients’ wider strategic aims are addressed by developing enduring relationships and by collaborating closely with the wider Boodle Hatfield property, tax, financing and private wealth teams. With a strong legal team to support you at each stage in the process, we can leave you to focus on what matters the most – getting into your new home or investment property.
Contact us for further details and information on our fees.
Recommended reading
Why have SME housebuilders gone from building 40% of Britain’s homes to just 10–12%? In Show House, Real Estate Partner, Aleem Khan explores the financing and planning barriers holding smaller developers back and what needs to change.
Read more 5 min read 15 Oct 2025 Home buying and selling consultation: Reform or just a HIP replacement?Is the Government’s latest plan to reform home buying a real fix or just a digital twist on the old HIPs? Residential Property Partners, Saskia Arthur and Edward Allan, and Senior Associate, Kate Symons, explore how the proposed “Home Buying and Selling Reform” could reshape (or repeat) history.
Read more 4 min read 31 Jul 2025 Chancel repair liability ancient, unusual, obscure and onerous…Some landowners may still be liable for repairing the chancel of a parish church, a historic legal obligation dating back to the feudal system. In this article, Partner, Saskia Arthur and Senior Associate, Kate Symons look at the Law Commission’s consultation on reforms to the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA), which seeks to clarify how chancel repair liability should be recorded and enforced, not to abolish it, but to ensure the relevant provisions of the LRA operate as originally intended.
Read more 9 min read 10 Jul 2025 The Renters’ Rights Bill: Key implications for residential landlords and tenantsThe Renters’ Rights Bill 2024, which is likely to gain Royal Assent by September 2025 for implementation by early 2026, will have a significant impact on the current assured shorthold tenancy regime for both landlords and tenants. There will be a transitional period to allow landlords and tenants to familiarise themselves with the new legal framework, however once in effect, the changes will apply retrospectively, governing both existing assured shorthold tenancies and new tenancies.
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