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Tessa* reached out to Natalie Pibworth at Tees when she thought she might have been the victim of medical negligence.
Attention to detail, local knowledge, legal expertise. All you need for a successful business premises transaction.
When it’s time to move premises, or acquire new offices, retail units or industrial sites, you need legal expertise you can rely on to make sure every detail is right. We’ll take the headache out of commercial property transactions by guiding you through every step of the process. Our sector and local knowledge come from years of experience, and we get to know all our clients’ objectives so we can always give proactive advice.
Our attention to detail, from due diligence on each site to making sure your deals are watertight, will take the worry out of the legal side of acquiring or disposing of your real estate. We provide legal expertise to occupiers, investors and developers.
We help developers at every stage, including buying sites for immediate development, acting on long-term option agreements and managing joint venture schemes. We’ve worked on everything from multi-million pound long-term strategic schemes to smaller projects with just a few units.
The team at Tees is exceptional when it comes to corporate and commercial. Their tenacity and understanding of our business were excellent, as well as their understanding of a commercial deal that was not always straightforward.
Key services
Our property acquisitions and disposals solicitors can help with a range of issues including:
Tees is a top-tier Legal 500 full-service law firm, and we have access to legal experts across the board. If your transaction is part of a wider corporate scheme we can, for example, call on corporate or employment solicitors to give you a fully rounded service for all your legal needs. Insolvency, environmental law, dispute resolution and litigation services are also on hand.
We also have a team of independent financial advisers to take care of any further investment or financial planning requirements.
If you’d like to meet one of our property acquisitions & disposals experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch.
We have offices across Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, but we can help you wherever you are in England and Wales.
The financial services provided on this page are by Tees Financial Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Our legal services are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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The answers to many of your questions can be found here, please get in touch for further information.
If you are selling land or renting it out as a landlord you may be asked to provide replies to commercial property standard enquiries before exchange of contracts. These enquiries include questions on a range of aspects including:
• The physical condition of the property
• How the property can be accessed
• Any maintenance agreements for any boundaries to the property
• Insurance policy documentation
• Asbestos survey reports
• Fire risk assessments
• Planning permissions and/or building regulation completion certificates
• Energy performance certificates
• Electrical installation certificates
• Information on the VAT position and capital allowances.
To speed up ths process, it is advisable to have this information and/or documentation to hand. The replies given are relied upon by the proposed purchaser or tenant. It is therefore very important that the replies are as accurate as possible. They must not be in any way misleading and must be kept up-to-date until exchange of contracts or completion of the lease, otherwise you may find yourself liable for a claim.
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a form of tax which you may be required to pay if you buy, or in some circumstances rent, a property or land in England or Northern Ireland. The amount due (if any) will depend on the purchase price. If you are renting, the amount due will depend on the length of the term, level of rental and whether or not VAT is charged on the rent. If SDLT is payable on the transaction, you will be asked to complete a SDLT return. This will need to be submitted to HMRC, together with the amount payable within 14 days of completion, otherwise you will be liable to pay a penalty fee. Your solicitor will be able to file the return on your behalf.
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is required by law when a property is built, is being sold or rented out. There is a duty to commission an EPC before the property is put on the market. It shows information about the energy efficiency of a property, including the property’s energy use and typical energy cost. The certificate also provides an energy efficiency rating from A (most efficient) to G (least efficient) and is valid for a period of up to 10 years. If a commercial property is let, a landlord is required by law to have a minimum EPC rating of “E” and may need to make improvements to the property until this has been achieved.
There are certain types of property which are exempt from needing an EPC. These include those which do not have a roof or do not have walls, those which use no energy to condition the indoor climate, religious properties and buildings earmarked for demolition.
Having a property surveyed before buying or renting is highly advisable. It can give you a good idea of the condition of the property and highlight problems which you may otherwise not know about. Commercial tenants should be particularly wary when entering into a lease. This is because the lease may contain repairing obligations that require a tenant to give a property back to the landlord fully in repair. This may be the case even if the tenant was not responsible for any damage, or the property was not in a good state of repair at the start of the tenancy. Your solicitor will advise that you try to limit these obligations.
If you’d like to meet one of our experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch.
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All financial services provided by Tees are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Tees and Tees Wealth are trading names of Tees Financial Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales number 4342506. Registered office address Tees House, 95 London Road, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3GW.
Copyright © 2025 Tees Law. All rights reserved.
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All legal services provided by Tees are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Tees is a trading name of Stanley Tee LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA Number 464615) and is registered in England and Wales number OC327874.
All financial services provided by Tees are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Tees and Tees Wealth are trading names of Tees Financial Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales number 4342506. Registered office address Tees House, 95 London Road, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3GW.
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All financial services provided by Tees are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Tees and Tees Wealth are trading names of Tees Financial Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales number 4342506. Registered office address Tees House, 95 London Road, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3GW.
Copyright © 2025 Tees Law. All rights reserved.
