Ben joined BTTJ in March 2024 as a Solicitor within our busy Residential Conveyancing team, based out of our Coventry office.
Ben qualified as a Solicitor in 2015 having completed his Training Contract with a Legal 500 firm in the West Midlands.
He has worked for a range of firms across the Midlands and specialises in all aspects of residential property with clients returning to him for his calm and efficient approach.
Ben is also deputy chair of the Birmingham Law Society’s Property & Development Committee.
In September 2024, after years of hard work, Ben was appointed as a Notary Public and a member of The Notaries Society. Ben’s position as a Notary Public provides services to both businesses and individuals.
Ben spends 80% of his time on residential property matters and deals with all types of residential property matters, he spends the remaining 20% of his time on Notary matters.
The Notaries Society
Ben James, Solicitor in our Residential Conveyancing team outlines the upcoming changes below: Stamp Duty From the 1st April, the SDLT nil rate band threshold will fall from £250,000 to £125,000 (returning to 23 September 2022 rates) and SDLT will (as before that date) be chargeable at 2% (or where the higher rate on additional dwellings and/or non-UK resident surcharge applies, an...
Our Corporate Commercial team recently wrote an article showing the key points of the October budget. As a follow up, Property Solicitor Ben James now looks at Stamp Duty Land Tax in further detail. After the much-anticipated recent Labour budget, increases in stamp duty land tax (SDLT) for non-primary residences were announced. The higher rate for additional properties was raised from 3% to...
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