Residential Property

Cumberland Ellis offers a high quality residential property service acting for buyers and sellers of private homes. Our residential property partner Angela Lucy and her team provides an individually tailored conveyancing service delivering value to our clients who are kept fully informed at all times as their matter progresses.

Our work includes:

• acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold property
• leasehold enfranchisement (collective purchase of freehold and lease term extensions)
• shared ownership leases
• right to buy purchases
• auction sales
• legal aspects of property finance, including mortgages, re-mortgages and equity release
• advice on environmental law, planning, building regulation legislation and surveyors' reports
• deeds of variation
• adverse possession applications
• transfers of equity, severance issues and declarations of trust to deal with adjustments in property ownership