Caroline Smith

Caroline Smith Senior Consultant Solicitor (Residential and Commercial Property)

Caroline qualified in 2004 and spent 9 years within large regional private practices before moving to head up an internal legal department within a property company.

Caroline has experience in all aspects of property law and specialises in the following:

Commercial Property:

  • Acquisitions and disposals of commercial property
  • Sale and purchase of development property/land (including multiple plot sales/purchases)
  • Commercial leases
  • Buying and selling at Auction

Landlord and Tenant:

  • Large/small scale ground rent portfolio management
  • Reversionary ground rents
  • Freehold acquisitions and disposals including the drafting and serving of section 5 notices
  • Lease extensions
  • Enfranchisements
  • Licences (alter, underlet and assign)
  • Drafting new leases in accordance with changing legislation

Residential Property

  • Freehold and leasehold sales and purchases
  • Registered and unregistered land
  • Sales and purchases of units within new developments
  • Transfers of Equity and matrimonial transfers
  • Lease extensions
  • Buying and selling at auctions

Interests:

Caroline lives in Cheshire but acts for clients throughout the UK.

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We would highly recommend Setfords. Their communication was exceptionally high standard, we’d email and usually receive a response within 24 hours. They handled both buying our new house and...

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Great service. Recommended for all conveyancing.

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Carey Smith was excellent throughout the entire process. Professional and communicative. Highly recommend.

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The sheer professionalism, there attention to detail. I will be recommending them to other friends and colleagues.

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Both Caroline and Ray provided an excellent service and had a lot of patience.

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Setfords were fantastically well organised during the sale of our home. They were totally professional throughout and never dropped a stitch. First rate service.

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I've moved house a few times in the past and have never had a solicitor as diligent and hardworking as Caroline Smith.Despite a long chain with multiple buyers and sellers separating, which caused...

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Carey was very punctual and helped us through our probate process

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Caroline Smith assisted with our first flat purchase. She was incredibly knowledgeable, efficient and a friendly voice at the other side of the phone. This was a long-running transaction that would...

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Great fast, friendly & knowledgeable service. A pleasure to deal with Caroline Smith and her team.

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Fast, friendly, efficient and a pleasure to deal with.

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Setfords just get the job done very straight forward and stress free. Ray Smith is a particularly helpful, polite and professional contact.

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Professional, reachable and always helpful . Excellent service .

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Caroline and Ray were first class! All of our questions and queries were answered promptly and more often than not already taken care of before asking. Extremly proactive and made the process of our...

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Caroline and her team (Ray and others) have been assisting me on property sales and purchase transactions for several years. All along, in each and every transaction, I have found the Setfords team...

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Caroline was brilliant throughout the whole process - she was thorough, quick and great at keeping us updated. Really pleased with the service we received.

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Caroline was very patient regarding problems occurring at my end . Fast and efficient. Would recommend. Thank you

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Thorough and Communicative team; I had the misfortune of purchasing over the festive period and was anticipating low-to-no communications, however, the team - specifically Kerrie Ashford - provided...

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Helpful and provide professional advice at all times

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You can speak to different staff members, and they are all up-to-date on the case. The staff are all very knowledgeable. You can reach them on the phone and they usually answer first...

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