Thamesmead was built in the 1960s on the marshes between Woolwich and Erith as a town of the future, and sixty years on it is being rebuilt by Peabody, its largest landlord, around the tenants and right-to-buy leaseholders who stayed. Property solicitors in Greenwich see the results: maisonettes sold under the right to buy decades ago now being sold on, leaseholders facing bills for works to the concrete walkways, and new flats rising beside the old ones with the usual new-build paperwork. Thamesmead straddles the boundary with Bexley, and the Elizabeth line at Abbey Wood has lifted prices in both halves.
The rest of the borough's conveyancing divides neatly. The Greenwich Peninsula, Royal Arsenal Riverside and Kidbrooke Village are leasehold new-build on a large scale, with ground rents, estate charges, management companies, building safety certificates and, on resale, Help to Buy loans to redeem and shared-ownership landlords to consult. Eltham, Charlton, Plumstead and Shooters Hill are freehold houses, interwar and Victorian, with extensions, boundaries and the conservation rules of the Progress Estate as the usual complications. The Georgian and Victorian houses of Greenwich town centre come with listed-building and World Heritage Site constraints that affect every alteration.
Renting is substantial in Woolwich, Plumstead and around the university, and deposit, disrepair and possession disputes follow. Commercial property runs from the retail parks at Charlton and warehouses on the riverside to shop leases in Woolwich and the stalls and restaurants of Greenwich Market.
Conveyancing is almost always fixed-fee; ask for searches, Land Registry fees and stamp duty to be itemised.
Property firms serving Greenwich are listed below, verified first. Read what conveyancing involves, landlord and tenant law, commercial property law and the general property solicitors guide, or see property solicitors in Lewisham for the next borough west.
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