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Chartered Legal Executive
Karen Jones has worked within residential property for nearly 30 years, starting as a secretary and qualifying as a Legal Executive in 1999. She is now a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
Karen has worked for various law firms throughout her career and has been at Coodes since 2023.
Karen has a busy and varied desk with a broad spectrum of residential property work.
Karen has experience in various types of affordable housing schemes available to buyers from purchase of new build shared ownership, equity charge affordable properties, fixed equity and staircasing.
Acting on the purchase of an affordable property subject to an equity charge and identifying that this needs to be removed to avoid having to re-enter into the charge each time the property is disposed of. Requesting that the seller enter into negotiations with the holder of the equity charge to have it removed prior to sale.
Karen has been involved in the sale of many probate properties on behalf of Executors.
Karen deals with first registrations of property on both a voluntary and mandatory basis.
Karen also prepares Epitomes of Title for the sale of unregistered properties which is becoming increasingly rarer but there are still some.
It is often the case that small pieces of land are missing from a registered title or that a client has been using a piece of land for a number of years and would like to try and claim possession with the Land Registry. This process involves gathering sufficient evidence to be able to present to the Land Registry and make an application for possessory title.
Purchasing a leasehold property which only has 65 unexpired years on the lease and advising the client accordingly regarding the costs and considerations as to a lease extension prior to purchase.
Dealing with a transfer of equity subject to a mortgage where the mortgagee needs to be joined into the Transfer Deed
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Qualified as a Legal Executive in 1999.
