Legal Resources and News

Commercial Law and Commercial Property specialist, Kim Sayer, has been promoted to Associate. 🎉🎉

In previous years, many scams have involved debit and credit cards being used to commit fraud but scammers are increasingly focusing their activity on authorised push payment fraud, also known as payment diversion fraud.

Criminals are actively targeting property purchases, with the aim of tricking you into transferring them your house deposit and/or the balance of purchase monies to them.

Housebuilding remains one of the key catalysts in Britain’s post-pandemic economic and social recovery.

Regional and local developers play a key role in meeting the unprecedented demand for housing by seeking out opportunities for development on a smaller scale in circumstances where larger developers may not deem such developments a viable or worthwhile venture.

The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) puts uses of land and buildings into various categories known as 'Use Classes' 

Changes to the planning use classes have been introduced this month under the Use Classes Order Amendments -The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020

There is an alarming rise in property fraud to which every property owner is vulnerable with fraudsters using increasingly sophisticated methods to misappropriate property interests. Those properties that are either unregistered at the Land Registry, vacant, tenanted, being refurbished or mortgage free are considered to be most at risk so this raises the question what, if any, measures may be available to you to better protect your property against such criminal activity?