Meeting all your needs for Property Conveyancing Services
As the name suggests the company specialises in property advice and conveyancing, nothing else. With that expertise comes the promise of a bespoke service, dealing directly with your qualified lawyer.
Based near Dorchester the expectation for local clients is that we will discuss the legal aspects of your sale, purchase or letting with you at your home or workplace or, if mutually convenient, at your selling agent’s offices.
That personal service is backed up of course by phone and e-mail/internet contact with written reports for you to review in your own time.
‘Office hours’ are pretty much whenever it is right to talk.
RESIDENTIAL
The company is experienced in dealing with all aspects of residential conveyancing in addition to the usual freehold and leasehold transactions, including:
• New build purchases;
• Retirement apartments;
• Lease extensions and enfranchisement;
• Building plots.
Philip Hall has expertise in dealing with Duchy of Cornwall requirements, having worked in Poundbury and dealt with many properties there.
Ensuring enough time is devoted to each client, attention to detail and tenacity has enabled Philip Hall to get leases and ‘estate’ transfers corrected when developer’s solicitors (often large national firms) have tried to insist that ‘standard documents’ cannot be altered, so saving his clients problems on their future sales.
When it comes to selling, especially on the sale of apartments, the approach is to work with the client as early as possible and investigate all the potential issues to have answers in place before an issue becomes a problem.
COMMERCIAL
Our commercial expertise ranges from the sale and purchase of shops, pubs and restaurants and leases for individual businesses to acting for developers on multi-million pound site acquisitions and developments.
Some of the more recent development acquisitions have been on sites around the Duchy of Cornwall Poundbury development in Dorchester. These have involved the site acquisition negotiations with the Duchy and then sales of blocks of flats to social housing landlords, leases of commercial units and then sales of individual houses – tying the commercial and residential expertise together.
At the other end of the scale, leasing of individual units is tailored to the type of property. It may involve, for landlords, just using the Law Society Business Leases or, for tenants, advising only on the lease terms and important enquiries rather than a ‘full-blown’ investigation and acquisition report; in either case providing cost effective solutions controlling the risk in the transaction.
The ‘commercial’ approach also applies to investigations of:
• rights of way;
• enforceability of restrictive covenants; and
• boundary issues.
Armed with the right information, the aim is to avoid a formal ‘dispute’ and resolve any issues by negotiation.
For more information contact:
Philip Hall – Director and Property Lawyer
Longfield Chambers, 2 Bramble Drove, Broadmayne, Dorchester DT2 8ED
01305 236 677
philip@philip-hall.com
Mobile: 07505 854 734
Alternatively speak to Nicolas Lorenzo from BBX on 01202 836 061 / nicolas.lorenzo@bbxworld.com
