Our Residential Property Team has been involved in a number of interesting matters. Highlights include:
- Acting on the purchase of an Edwardian Gentleman’s residence, with associated woodland, paddock, Gate House and Gardener’s cottage, with a Listed Palladian Folly in the grounds
- Purchase of a cottage in South Devon, on the foreshore, involving the negotiation with the Duchy of Cornwall of a licence for exclusive use of a jetty
- Dividing up one legal title and dealing with the subsequent sale of 2 iconic Listed Town houses in a Georgian square in the middle of Bath, and the 12 parking spaces to the rear
- Successfully securing a substantial investment property in London following a contract race, whilst dealing with the requirements of bridging finance
- Acting for an international client purchasing 7 apartments ‘off plan’ in a significant new-build development in Kensington
- Advising a property developer purchasing a former public house and Listed Building in Surrey for conversion into two semi-detached houses and dealing with the sales of the two new houses
- Supporting a client purchasing a second flat in a historic Belgravia square and negotiating landlord’s consent for building works to amalgamate the client’s two flats
- Acting for a landlord of a building in Kensington dealing with lengthy negotiations with a tenant for the conversion of the tenant’s two flats into one larger apartment with an external extension
- Assisting a client needing to swiftly acquire short-term mortgage finance secured on his Knightsbridge property to fund his refurbishment of another property