Karen Stewart

Karen Stewart Consultant Residential Property Solicitor

Karen is a Consultant Solicitor with over 27 years of experience in all aspects of residential property. This gives Karen knowledge and practical experience across many types of transactions and successfully concluding them for clients.

Before Setfords, Karen spent 25 years in another of the UK's largest conveyancing firms, almost entirely as a Partner managing teams delivering volume accounts and establishing and heading up the Private Property team. Her areas of expertise include:

  • The acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold properties
  • Attorney and Deputy sales and purchases
  • Probate sales
  • Unregistered land and first registration
  • Auction sale and purchase
  • New build purchases
  • Re-mortgages
  • Transfers of equity
  • Shared ownership sales and purchases
  • Deeds of Variation and Deeds of Surrender and Regrant of Lease
  • Right to Buy purchases
  • High-value prime central London properties

Karen delivers a high quality service with efficiency and goes the extra mile to help clients achieve their goals. When needed, Karen recognises where advice in other areas of law is helpful to a property matter, such as family, trusts, corporate, tax, or commercial property. She is used to liaising with other lawyers to give clients the best overall advice.

In her spare time, Karen likes to go to the gym and is a qualified personal trainer, enjoys travelling, and is learning Spanish.

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Karen Stewart was an amazing, reliable, helpful and patient support through a stressful elongated house sale. It was so good to know that I could rely on her comprehensive and professional work when...

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Karen was great. Very quick at replying to requests for information/advice and very good at proactively contacting me to let me know what was happening. Unlike some solicitors I have used in the...

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Karen Stewart was extremely efficient and professional during the whole process of our house sale and purchase over 2025/26. Karen always provided prompt responses with sound advice. I would not...

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Amazing job. Really responsive and gets the job done.

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The sale of my property was dealt with very efficiently and all the various questions from third parties were explained to me in simple terms. I have every confidence in the staff at Setfords.

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We were passed the details for Karen Stewart at Setfords Solicitors by our estate agent, to manage the sale of our property in the UK, having already moved overseas. Karen was fantastic to deal with...

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I truly believe we would not be in our dream home right now without Karen at Setfords. When you enter a chain to sell/ buy a house you never know what challenges will crop up but at all times I...

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Karen was absolutely incredible. We could not recommend her more highly. She was such a pleasure to work with but is also fantastic at her job. She helped us through a very tricky process and was...

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Karen at Setfords has been excellent to deal with from the first day to completion of my house purchase. I was given expert information and kept informed through the process. Karen really does go...

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I sold my flat in November 2024. (Independently) My fiancee and I started our search for our next new home with gusto in January 2025. We found a property that we liked within months and I researched...

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Really professional. Great service. Really quick at answering all questions. Brilliant with the communication between all parties buying and selling. Highly recommend

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Karen was phenomenal from day one, from chasing our buyers solicitors to keeping us informed at every stage. Absolute pleasure to have Karen work with us.

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Excellent service, would highly recommend

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I was quite anxious about selecting the right solicitor for my elderly mother’s move into a retirement living home. I spent considerable time researching many options, before choosing Setfords,...

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Having worked with Karen for many years, she was the first person I contacted to deal with the conveyancing on the sale of my house. Karen dealt with my transaction very efficiently and kept me...

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Karen Stewart is fabulous: proactive, communicative, efficient; I had utmost confidence in her; a real pleasure to deal with and I have already been wholeheartedly recommending her.

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We had a fantastic experience with Karen Stewart as our solicitor for our property purchase. She was always efficient, punctual, and clear in her communication, which really helped us understand each...

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Karen was excellent! She was super responsive and helped with any questions we had as first time buyers.The whole experience was so smooth and speedy, would highly recommend Karen and Setfords!

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Karen was absolutely first class. This was the smoothest property transaction I have been involved in. I was kept up to date and didn’t have to chase a thing. Excellent service.

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