PROPERTY & CONVEYANCING

We provide a comprehensive legal service to all our property clients, drawing on over a hundred years of providing legal help and assistance to clients.

Residential Property

We understand that moving home can be a stressful experience. We understand also that buying a property for the first time, and dealing with all the legal terminology and phrases used in the procedure, can be bewildering. We aim to demystify the process and reassure you by offering advice in plain English, explaining technical legal terms and offering you one-to-one contact in order to keep you up-to-date as to the progress of your transaction.

In order to provide an efficient and speedy service we have installed a case management IT system and make wide use of email correspondence where requested by our clients. We have also set up online access to H. M. Revenue & Customs to deal with stamp duty land tax issues as promptly as possible.

As well as representing clients moving home we also act in residential property transactions for investment purposes, in connection with the disposal and sub-division of land and refinancing or re-mortgaging of property. We also act for clients, both landlords and tenants, in leasehold transactions, for example in granting, assigning, varying and extending leases.

We have in-depth knowledge, experience and expertise in shared ownership work, including purchases and re-sales of shared ownership properties and buying further shares in the property (also known as staircasing). We are, therefore, on the Housing Associations’ approved list of legal firms undertaking shared ownership work. Given our location close to the Arsenal F.C. regeneration area we have been involved particularly in acting for first-time buyers (including key-workers) at large, local developments.

Our fees for residential property work are generally on a fixed fee basis and you can obtain quotations from this website or contact us for additional information.

For further details or to instruct us please contact Naureen Matlib on (020) 7700 0265 or naureen@percyshort.co.uk or Stephen Friday on (020) 7700 0265 or stephen@percyshort.co.uk to provide your details to us. In addition, please pass our details to your sales agent and mortgage lender or broker.

Commercial Property

We advise on all areas of commercial property transactions within the United Kingdom. Our clients include individual entrepreneurs, partnerships and companies.

If you are purchasing or selling a commercial property or leasing commercial premises we have the expertise to guide you through and aim to work within your timescale and budget. We understand the business our clients undertake and accordingly we gauge our advice to suit their circumstances. In particular we can help in the following areas:

• Acquisitions and Disposals
• Residential Developments
• Plot Sales
• Grant and Assignment of Leases
• Commercial Property Refinancing

We can agree a fixed price for most transactions. For further details please contact Stephen Friday on 020 7697 4971 or stephen@percyshort.co.uk.