Real Estate Law UK

Buying your first home means running a legal process you have never seen before, with your largest-ever sum of money moving through it. The…

Whether a remortgage needs a solicitor at all depends on one fact: are you switching lender? Stay with your current lender on a product…

A gifted deposit — family money given, not lent, towards a property purchase — now sits behind a majority of first purchases. Lenders take…

A declaration of trust remains the single most effective legal tool for protecting money invested in jointly owned property in 2026 – whether you…

Every private landlord in England will have to register themselves and every property they let on the new PRS database, with rollout starting in…

Since 1 May 2026 the arithmetic of rent arrears eviction has changed: Ground 8 now requires three months’ arrears — thirteen weeks for weekly…

A tenant facing eviction in England now holds a stronger hand than at any point in decades: section 21 is gone, every possession claim…

Evicting a tenant in England means proving a legal ground, serving the right notice, and seeing a county court claim through to enforcement —…

Grounds for possession are now the only lawful route to recovering a rented property in England. Since section 21 ended on 1 May 2026,…

A rent repayment order lets a tenant claw back rent from a landlord who committed a housing offence — no conviction required, and since…

Section 21 is gone. Since 1 May 2026 no new no-fault notice can be served in England, every private tenancy runs as a periodic…

The idea is seductive: a derelict house is not really a “dwelling”, so it should pay non-residential stamp duty — often tens of thousands…