Plain-language guides to common problems

From offer to keys, the eight stages of a purchase and what your solicitor is doing during each of them.

Consultation, selection, notice and pay. The four things a fair redundancy process has to get right.

Almost certainly yes. Here is who inherits if you do not make one, and why that is rarely what people expect.

The five clauses we look at first, and the two that cause the most trouble later.

A plain explanation of what happens in a mediation, what it costs and when we would recommend it.

What the deposit schemes actually require, what deductions are allowed, and how to challenge the ones that are not.