Real estate disputes

When conversation turns into conflict, you need a legal team with the experience and expertise to protect your interests and achieve swift, commercially realistic results in the most cost efficient and risk free manner possible.

Clients ranging from individuals and entrepreneurs to corporations and multi-national organisations trust our commercial litigation lawyers, based in Kent, to deliver results for them in even the most complex of cases. We make it a point to get to know our clients, to understand their objectives thoroughly, provide clear advice and commercially minded recommendations in plain English, and to make ourselves available whenever and wherever our clients need us.

Our commercial litigation lawyers specialise in helping settle disputes using mediation, arbitration and other ADR approaches, but are equally skilled and experienced in fighting our clients’ corner in court where necessary. We can also offer risk management and litigation avoidance advice, to help stop issues developing into full disputes.

We provide pragmatic and commercial solutions for our clients to resolve real estate disputes.

Our team represent clients in all forums including the High Court and County Court, Lands Tribunal, and the First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), but we look to achieve a cost effective resolution before matters proceed that far.

All of our real estate dispute lawyers are members of the Property Litigation Association and we have strong working relationships with specialist surveyors and experts, as well as Chancery barristers, and are used to working as part of a professional team.

We actively promote alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation and arbitration in order to achieve results for you.

Above all, we recognise that the real estate world is a business in which personal relationships count and we fully address the human as well as the legal dimension of any problem.

Our specialisms include:

• Development disputes, including unlocking land for development purposes to include diversion of public rights of way, telecommunications issues, settlement of overage disputes, obtaining permission to carry out work to common land, and all related planning matters
• Real estate disputes to include advising on easements, restrictive covenants, boundary issues and adverse possession claims
• Property insolvency matters to include the enforcement of fixed charges and debentures, the appointment of receivers, and advising on company voluntary arrangements
• Commercial landlord & tenant disputes including rent reviews, breach of tenancy agreements and forfeiture
• Recovering possession of land from tenants, trespassers and squatters
• Resolving disputes concerning jointly owned property by utilising the process under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
• Lease extensions and enfranchisement under the statutory process
• Professional negligence claims arising from property related matters
• Telecommunications & Code disputes
• Advising landowners and farmers on rights and liabilities in connection with agricultural tenancies
• Planning disputes.