Leasehold property services
Our Residential Property team has a wealth of experience in the legal complexities that come with purchasing, selling or leasing leasehold properties. As a whole service law firm, we work closely with our colleagues in related departments to provide a holistic service to our leasehold clients, including both landlords and tenants, that covers any and every legal challenge they may face.
Our specialist team can advise you on:
- Purchasing and selling leasehold properties
- Residential lease terms and any covenants that might affect the use of a property
- Matters relating to the Building Safety Act, to ensure properties are fully compliant with new regulations
- Shared ownership sales, purchases, remortgages and staircasing
- Deeds of Variation, to ensure leases are correct and compliant for mortgage lending.
Our colleagues in the Leasehold Enfranchisement department can support with:
- Lease extensions
- Collective enfranchisement (where tenants purchase the freehold of their building)
Our Company and Commercial team is on hand to help with:
- Creating and managing a freehold company
- Advising freeholders on their building and fire safety obligations
Our Dispute Resolution team is here to advise on:
- Service charge disputes
- Evictions and property repossessions.
Navigating the Building Safety Act
The Building Safety Act 2022 has introduced a huge number of legislative changes aimed at making high and mid-rise buildings safer to live in. Inevitably, this has resulted in a huge increase in the administrative burden for landlords and Responsible Persons of affected buildings.
In contrast with many law firms, who have stopped dealing with transactions of BSA-affected buildings due to the complexity of these cases and the novelty and lack of clarity of the legislation, our own leasehold experts receive regular and up-to-date training on the Act and can advise our clients regarding their responsibilities and rights under the new legislation.
Working with our colleagues in our Commercial Property department, we can support landlords and tenants alike in navigating this new and complicated piece of legislation.
Our Service Pledge
Every client who comes through our door benefits from our Service Pledge: our solemn promise to be polite, proactive, communicative and responsive when working on your case.
Our Pledge means that any problem we encounter will be accompanied by solutions, delays will be proactively chased up and we’ll answer the phone or respond to your emails exactly when we say we will.
Find out more about our Service Pledge here.
Get in touch today
To speak with us about our expert legal services for leaseholders, please call 0330 221 8855 or email enquiries@attwaters.co.uk.
