If you are a commercial mortgage holder or commercial landlord, the chances are that, eventually, you will need to end the lease early and evict your tenant. This is common in instances where the tenants usually stop paying their rent. The process of evicting commercial...
Money laundering is a term most people will have heard of, but don’t necessarily know what it means or how it could affect them. In particular, when purchasing or selling a property you need to be aware of it. Money laundering is a growing, worldwide...
We use them almost every day. We walk on them, drive on them, see them going past the window when we’re on the train. They are on the news, on our favourite TV programme, they’re even in the papers, although usually to complain about how...
What is a property chain? A property chain is quite simply, a sequence of linked house purchases. When you are in a chain, buying or selling a house depends on the purchases either side of your property. If you are a first-time buyer, your chain only...
Big lateral property extensions are becoming impractical in overcrowded urban environments. As an alternative, people are now increasingly turning to loft conversions as means of boosting the square footage of their property and adding value without having to move home. All over the UK, people...
No matter how big or small your property purchase, it’s still possibly one of the largest amounts of money you’ve spent at one time. This means that you are a natural target for thieves, particularly as more and more transactions are done online, and criminals...
