Rachel Byles

Rachel advises individuals, families, executors and trustees on a wide range of residential property matters. She acts on both straightforward and complex transactions, helping clients navigate every stage of the conveyancing process.

Her practice encompasses freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, probate and estate sales, transfers of equity, remortgages, buy-to-let investments, auction transactions and new-build purchases. She regularly advises on matters involving unregistered land, first registrations, title defects, rights of way, restrictive covenants, missing deeds and other complex title issues that require practical and commercially focused solutions.

Rachel works with a broad range of clients, from first-time buyers and home movers through to property investors, executors and families dealing with inherited property. She is particularly experienced in supporting clients through sensitive transactions involving bereavement and estate administration, ensuring legal issues are managed efficiently while remaining mindful of the personal circumstances surrounding the transaction.

Her experience includes advising on estate and probate sales, first registrations of unregistered property and transactions involving complex legal or practical challenges. She is experienced in managing matters where issues arise during the course of a transaction, working closely with all parties to resolve obstacles and maintain momentum.

Examples of Rachel’s work include:

• Acting for a cash buyer on a new-build purchase which was exchanged and completed within a three-week deadline.
• Advising a property investor on the acquisition of a leasehold investment property in London involving multiple third parties and tight completion timescales.
• Acting for executors on the sale of a probate property following the resolution of a family dispute.