Legal

Lawyer Annabel Dean shares some practical tips for those looking to compete in this most challenging of markets…

The Land Registry is to increase its land registration fees next year.

In this entertaining piece for the Telegraph, Helen Kirwan-Taylor reports on rising tensions between local residents and wealthy buyers snapping up the UK’s finest country estates.

Legal bodies issue official guidance for buyers as cases of conveyancing fraud soar amid the market boom.

Claire Lamkin has moved from Blake Morgan to become the sixth Partner in Kingsley Napley's Real Estate & Construction team.

"It’s fascinating that so many of these people in the public eye must have known that eventually their activities would become common knowledge, and yet they opted for offshore secrecy anyway," says…

"Secret" owners of luxury homes in London have been revealed in a huge data leak, including details of a widely-reported Qatari-owned property on Cornwall Terrace.

The so-called "Pandora Papers" have exposed the money trails and property dealings of some of the world's wealthiest and most influential people, including a former British Prime Minister.

Stamp Duty is complicated and sometimes reliefs are overlooked, say top lawyers writing for The Chartered Institute of Taxation - so it can be worth revisiting transactions in search of a rebate.

Backed by Mishcon de Reya and Alex Chesterman, Thirdfort's latest proptech product promises "bullet-proof AML for estate agents".

Kate McMahon, who successfully prosecuted a businessman of 11 counts of fraud offences relating to a failed property redevelopment in Knightsbridge recently, explains the background to the case - and offers…

Sarah Conibeere has moved from Mischon de Reya to Fladgate.