✨ If she were a person, she’d be the real estate lawyer who always has her briefcase ready, knows exactly what’s going on with every property, and keeps everything impeccably organised. Sharp, thorough, and a little intense, she can get passionate about tricky deals, loves talking numbers and contracts, and somehow makes even the densest property transactions feel manageable. ✨
This 37-page guide is a concise, structured, and visually engaging revision resource for Property Law and Practice, covering both freehold and leasehold real estate law and practice:
- Freehold property law: investigation of registered and unregistered titles, analysing Land Registry entries and epitomes of title, reporting to clients, pre-contract searches and enquiries, Law Society Conveyancing Protocol, finance, acting for lenders, preparation and exchange of contracts, pre-completion, completion, post-completion steps, and remedies for delayed completion.
- Leasehold property law: structure and content of a lease, procedural steps for granting and assigning leases, licences to assign or underlet, leasehold covenants, remedies for breach, termination of leases, and security of tenure under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
- Planning law: statutory definition of development, matters constituting or exempt from planning permission, building regulations, and enforcement powers.
- Property taxation: Stamp Duty Land Tax (England) and Land Transaction Tax (Wales), Value Added Tax (VAT), Capital Gains Tax, and Private Residence Relief.