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Residential Property Buyers & Sellers

Our market leading residential property team will guide you through the complex and often fast paced process of buying and selling prime urban and country residential properties. We ensure that your aims are understood and target deadlines are met.
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Saskia Arthur +44 (0) 20 7079 8197 View profile
Shaima Jillood +44 (0) 20 7079 8146 View profile

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.

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