When buying or selling a house, or dealing with other property transactions such as remortgaging, you should seek expert legal support. If you have already been researching the issue, you likely know that the legal process of dealing with a property transaction is called ‘conveyancing’ and you may have come across different terms for the […]

Unregistered land is basically an asset that hasn’t been registered with the Land Registry. This doesn’t mean that the land isn’t owned, it just means that the details of the land (which includes who owns the land) is only documented in the Title Deeds and not centrally registered at the Land Registry. When land is registered […]

When you buy a property, the division of the asset is usually 50:50, meaning that each person named as ‘owner’ of the property within the Title Deeds owns an equal share of the property. This is typical for co-habiting couples and married couples and in such situations, there generally isn’t a need or desire for […]

It’s really important for us here at Thornton Jones to stay involved and when the subject is relevant to our business we take part in The Law Society’s #SolicitorChat which is a weekly Twitter discussion. Recently, Jess Taylor, one of our brilliant Conveyancing Solicitors, provided answers to these five key questions on the subject of ‘Advice for house hunters’. Question 1 Affordability […]

The next lockdown which starts on 5th November and runs for four weeks has again raised challenges for solicitors. Uncertainty stemming from the Prime Minister’s briefing on the impact to the housing market has been addressed following a Tweet from the Housing Minister, Robert Jenrick, who clearly stated that during this next phase of lockdown that: […]

We feared that the post Covid-19 property market would be slow. We expected some activity but nothing that would signify a full recovery. We hoped for a steady and gradual filtering through of new conveyancing matters as people found confidence to venture out and commence their search for a new home. We brought colleagues back from furlough […]

I am passionate about technology but only in so far as it makes our job easier so we can spend more time helping our clients with their legal issues.  For example, in our conveyancing team we are using some cutting edge technology to help us meet our obligations to identify our clients.  That just means we don’t […]