Property

The Tanfield Property Group has been described as being a team which wins plaudits for its ‘great service and good rapport with both solicitors and clients’ by Chambers UK 2011.  Commentators say that ‘particularly in these days when it’s essential that barristers and solicitors work as a team, Tanfield comes up trumps’.

The group, headed by Timothy Polli, prides itself on having strength in depth, whilst maintaining a flexible, goal oriented approach.  Legal 500 2009 described the Group as having a 'good range of junior barristers, particularly strong in Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) and service charge work'.  'Clients praise Kevin Moore's clerking' with editors further commenting in the 2010 edition that Tanfield has a ‘first-rate clerking team’.

The Property Group’s success has been built on an appreciation that genuine expertise is indispensable, but not of itself sufficient in a highly competitive market.

The ethos of the Property Group here at Tanfield is twofold: to add value to any case in which we are retained, and to make sure that the process of instructing, and, if unavoidable, retaining Counsel through litigation is as painless as we can make it. 

The Group offers specialist Counsel who are known for their accessible and unfussy approach, a clerking team which is efficient, friendly and which understands client care, and a commitment to transparency on fees. 

Members of the Group have experience in all areas of property law and several members both lecture and publish within their own areas of expertise.

We offer advice and representation in all aspects of property law, including in particular:

• Commercial Landlord and Tenant
• Development Agreements
• Easements and Restrictive Covenants
• Mortgages and other securities
• Property-related professional negligence
• Boundary Disputes
• Residential Landlord and Tenant
• Leasehold Enfranchisement (including rights of first refusal and right-to-buy
• Housing (including disrepair, nuisance, and housing grants)
• Trusts of Land / estoppel
• Insolvency issues in the real property context.

The group is recommended as a top ten set under Property Litigation/Real Estate Litigation in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Many members of the group are specifically recommended in these directories.