Have you been asked to obtain independent legal advice? Do you need to sign a document in front of a solicitor? Have you been asked to provide ‘certified’ copies of your ID? Do you need to have a document ‘sworn’? You may be surprised how regularly the above comes about in your day to day life. You might be remortgaging your home and be told that the lender ...

Why would you need to extend the term of your Lease? Most residential Leases, historically, were granted for an initial term of 99 or perhaps 125 years. Whilst it is of course possible that a residential Lease could have been granted with a much longer term at the outset, as is increasingly starting to be the case with more modern Leases, this was less comm ...

Buying a share of freehold most commonly occurs when a buyer purchases a leasehold interest in a flat while simultaneously obtaining a share in the freehold interest of the whole building. The buyer will acquire two separate and distinct titles to the property; the leasehold and freehold interests.

Probate refers to the right to administer the estate of someone who has died.

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