From the platform at Tottenham Hale the new Haringey is obvious: towers of flats where retail sheds and scrapyards stood, with more rising along the High Road near the stadium. A mile west, the Harringay Ladder's Victorian terraces have barely changed in a century, and in Highgate and Muswell Hill the Edwardian houses have been divided into flats, extended and sold on so many times that a title can take a morning to read. Property law in Haringey means all three at once.
Conveyancing in the west is mostly about leases: flats in converted houses, often with a share of the freehold, where the lease length, the service charge arrangements and responsibility for the roof need checking before exchange, and where lease extensions and freehold purchases are common. Buyers of the new towers in Tottenham Hale and Wood Green need the estate charges, ground rent terms and building safety position explained. Right-to-buy flats on estates such as Broadwater Farm and Noel Park come with major works bills and regeneration plans to investigate, and the regeneration around the stadium has involved compulsory purchase of homes and businesses.
Renting dominates Tottenham, Wood Green and the warehouse communities near Manor House, and the council's licensing schemes for private landlords add conditions to the tenancy. Solicitors act for landlords on possession and for tenants on disrepair, deposits and unlawful eviction, with hearings at the county court that serves the borough. Commercial work covers shops on Wood Green High Road and Green Lanes, railway arches, and the leases of restaurants whose fit-out is worth more than the premises.
Conveyancing is quoted as a fixed fee, with searches, Land Registry fees and stamp duty on top; ask for the breakdown in writing.
Property solicitors serving Haringey are listed below, verified first. Read what conveyancing involves, the legal fees for buying a house, landlord and tenant law and what a landlord and tenant agreement costs, or the general property solicitors guide.
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