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Gifting a deposit, lending money, or buying together are all sensible ways to help an adult child onto the property ladder. Each one carries legal and tax consequences that are far easier to deal with before completion than after it. Here is what families need to think about, and the practical steps that protect everyone involved. Parental support has become one of the main routes into home…
The property market this summer is best described as steady but cautious. Prices are broadly flat. Buyers have more choice than they have had for some time. Sellers are adjusting their expectations. A new Prime Minister and an Autumn Budget are adding a layer of uncertainty that many people are watching closely. This update sets out the current position in plain terms and offers practical steps…
You have found the flat. The light is right, the location works and the price is within reach. Then the estate agent mentions, almost in passing, that the property is leasehold, that there is a service charge and that a management company looks after the building. For many buyers, that is where the questions stop. It should be where they start. Leasehold is not a minority arrangement. The English…
I f you are thinking about buying a home, or simply trying to work out when the time is right to move, politics might feel like the last thing on your mind. Yet the policies a future government chooses can change the cost of buying, the type of home you end up owning, and even how easy it is to move again later. Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is often talked about as a future Prime…
A recent decision of the First-Tier Tribunal is a sobering reminder that disputes over the precise line of a boundary are slow, expensive, and far from certain in their outcome, and that the party who loses will usually be ordered to pay for both sides. Few disagreements turn neighbours into adversaries as quickly as an argument about where one property ends and the next begins. The strip of land…
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING | GUIDANCE FOR BUYERS More buyers are funding a deposit, and in some cases an entire purchase, from money they have built up in cryptocurrency. If that is you, expect your conveyancer to ask a great many questions before your money can be used. This guide explains, in plain terms, why those questions are asked and how to prepare so that your purchase is not delayed.…
How Artificial Intelligence Could Cut Conveyancing Labour Costs Within Five Years, and the Business Plan That Gets You There Labour is the largest cost in almost every conveyancing practice. Artificial intelligence is now automating the administrative layer where most of that labour is spent. A reduction of around thirty per cent in labour cost per transaction is no longer a futurist's slide. It…
Roughly one in three agreed property sales now collapses before completion. The profession has built a reassuring slogan around that reality, and then written the small print so that the slogan protects the firm at least as much as it protects the client. It is time someone in the profession said so plainly. There are few phrases in conveyancing marketing as soothing as "no completion, no fee." It…
When you buy or sell a home, a great deal of important information passes between the two sides through a set of standard forms. Two of the most important are the TA6 and TA7 enquiry forms. They often arrive with little explanation, and many people are unsure what they are for or how seriously to treat them. This guide explains what these forms do, why they matter, and what your responsibilities…
A practical guide to what has changed, what is likely to change next, and the steps you should be taking right now to protect your position. Published 13 May 2026 | MJP Conveyancing If you are buying a home in the spring of 2026, you are doing so in a mortgage market that has changed substantially in the space of weeks. The picture that was emerging in late 2025, of steady rate cuts, falling fixed…
