Residential Conveyancing

We have specialist staff who can help you with the following:

Property sales
Property purchases
Remortgages
Transfer of ownership
Leasehold variations/extensions
Leasehold enfranchisement
Home Information Packs (HIPs)

Farrell Matthews & weir has over 25 years experience of helping clients to buy, sell and remortgage property. We have the necessary expertise to ensure your move or remortgage is managed and controlled in an efficient manner.

We offer a client-friendly service which ensures you are able to contact the solicitor with conduct of your matter and encourages face-to-face meetings.

Please telephone or email us to arrange the most convenient appointment for you.

Commercial Conveyancing

The law relating to commercial property differs significantly from that of residential conveyancing.

We are able to help you with the following:

Leasehold and freehold sales/purchases including shops, restaurant, offices and industrial units.
Purchases and sales of businesses as going concerns including, as necessary, the transfer of good will, stock etc.
Purchases of land for building/redevelopment.

Please telephone or email us to arrange the most convenient appointment for you.

Wills

We cannot stress too highly the importance of making a will. If you are unmarried and co-habiting or if you have no will your partner may not receive any of your estate. If you are married your spouse may not receive all that you would wish and the law may not make adequate provision for your children. If you are married and contemplating divorce or separation is essential that you make a will. If you have young children it is highly desirable to appoint guardians.

Our highly experienced consultant solicitor can discuss your personal situation including inheritance tax and capital gains tax issues and then provide a tailor-made will to suit your particular circumstances.

Please telephone or email us to arrange the most convenient appointment for you.

Lasting Powers of Attorney

A lasting power of attorney enables you to appoint someone else to look after your affairs if you are unable to do so because of ill-health. It is particularly important for the older client but can be important even for the younger client who has investments.

A lasting Power of attorney can also enable someone else to make decisions on medical matters if you become too ill to make decisions yourself.

We recommend that you discuss this issue with any elderly relative for whom you may ultimately be responsible.

If there is no such power it may be necessary to apply to the court with consequent delay and expense. The advantage of a power of attorney is that you decide who would be managing your affairs instead of the court.

If you have elderly relatives for whom you are responsible you should suggest to them that it is in everyone's interests including their own for them to execute a lasting Power of attorney.

We can advise you fully on the benefits and how to proceed.

Probate

Probate [or more specifically ‘probate of the will’] is an official form which gives the executors of the will the right to deal with the assets and property of the deceased person. When a client shows the probate to the bank, for example, they know they are dealing with the person who is allowed to handle the estate, and they will allow the client to close the deceased’ account.

When you apply for probate, you are promising the Probate Court that you will deal with and ‘administer’ the estate according to law. If you don’t do this, you may be in trouble with the Court (as well as the people who benefit from the will). Probate makes sure the executors carry out their tasks properly.

There is also a similar process for when there is no will (or there are no executors named in the will), except that the document is called ‘letter of administration’.