Real property

Real property law covers a wide range of issues arising from the ownership and development of land.

Tanfield’s members advise and act in cases including:

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• pre-emption rights
• contracts for sale
• overage and planning agreements
• mortgages and receivership
• trusts of land
• boundaries and party walls
• easements including rights of light, way, drainage and the right to run cables, pipes and utilities
• the demolition and construction of buildings
• injunctions, specific performance, possession and orders for sale,
• land registration including determined boundaries and adverse possession
• restrictive covenants
• building schemes
• public rights of way and highways,
• commons and villages greens
• sporting rights, riparian rights, waterways, mines and minerals and wayleaves