A terrace in Fulham with a side return, a loft and a basement, each added by a different owner, is the typical Hammersmith and Fulham conveyance, and the questions it raises, whether the works had planning and building regulations approval, whether party wall awards exist, whether the basement complies with the council's policy, fill the enquiries before exchange. The borough's Victorian streets, from Brook Green to Sands End, were built one family to a house and have been extended, converted and reconverted ever since, so a property solicitor in Hammersmith and Fulham reads the planning history as closely as the title.
The flats are different again. Mansion blocks in Barons Court and West Kensington bring lease extensions, service-charge disputes and right-to-manage claims; the new towers at Imperial Wharf, Fulham Reach and White City bring building safety certificates, ground rents, estate charges and claims against developers for defects; and the old Television Centre has become a leasehold estate with rules of its own. Council homes on the White City, Edward Woods and Clem Attlee estates produce disrepair claims, succession disputes and possession defences, heard at the county court at Central London or Brentford, and the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates, bought back by the council from the Earl's Court developer, sit beside a redevelopment still being planned. The council's landlord licensing schemes add compliance work for anyone letting a converted house.
Commercial property follows the borough's trades: Westfield's retail leases, the office campuses at White City and along the Hammersmith flyover, the King Street shops, the halls at Olympia and three football stadiums. Renewals under the 1954 Act, rent reviews and dilapidations run alongside.
Conveyancing is normally fixed-fee; disputes, enfranchisement and commercial leases are charged hourly or per stage.
Property firms serving Hammersmith and Fulham are listed below, verified first. The explainers on conveyancing, the cost of buying a house, landlord and tenant law and disputes with neighbours give the background, and the general property solicitors page describes the work.
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