Not All Conveyancing Is Routine: When Property Law Meets A Moving Coastline
Commercial awareness for regional and high street law, by the people doing it.
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For coastal properties boundaries aren’t fixed, they vanish as the sea erodes land, making ownership lines far less certain than your average semi-detached.
Conveyancers can’t treat coastal property like standard transactions, they need to dig deeper into boundary risks, erosion history, and shifting titles.
Cafés, holiday lets, and caravan parks all can be impacted, not just homeowners.
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🧠Wilson’s Weekly Wisdom
Qualification as a solicitor. It’s been a whole week since I officially dropped “trainee” from my job title, and it still feels a bit surreal. After six and a half years of work, I finally got there.
Not everything goes smoothly, and the journey is rarely straightforward, but by staying focused, keeping going, and believing in yourself, you will get there too.
Whether it takes six years or ten, it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. What matters is that you have and will make it, and that’s something to be proud of.
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