Cook Taylor Woodhouse is one of south east London and Kent’s most successful independently owned firms of solicitors.

Please note that for the Festive Period our offices will close at 5.00pm on Monday 23rd December 2024 and reopen at 9.00am on Thursday 2nd January 2025. We wish all our clients and colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cook Taylor Woodhouse received the Silver award in the South East, Kent at the prestigious ESTAS Customer Service Awards 2022 sponsored by Coadjute, the biggest awards in the UK property industry. The winners were announced at the largest event in the property industry held at the Grosvenor House in London and hosted by the country’s […]

Our offices will close at 5.00pm on Thursday 23rd December 2021 and reopen at 9.00am on Tuesday 4th January 2022. We wish all our clients and colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  

We understand you may have seen reports of the issues involving IT systems for some parts of the Simplify Group, and some of its law firms, and think it may involve work undertaken with us given Simplify’s acquisition of Cook Taylor Woodhouse last year. Thankfully Cook Taylor Woodhouse continues to operate separate IT systems from […]

Please note that unfortunately due to a technical fault our telephone lines at our Dartford office have been unavailable for most of the day. This should however be rectified tomorrow morning.

Property Lawyers have long anticipated changes to the law that will simplify the process Leaseholders must follow to extend their Leases and/or acquire the Freehold of their building. The Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has now announced the government’s plans to address the proposed reforms to residential Leaseholds. The main changes are as follows: – 990-year […]

As we are all aware, England is now in its second National Lockdown.  We can, however, confirm that we continue trading as usual; the government has issued clear guidance that there will be no change to the housing market and as such, we do not expect that there will be any changes insofar as exchange […]

We are pleased to announce that as part of our continued growth and expansion we have acquired additional premises at our Dartford office. We have therefore decided to close our much smaller Bromley office and relocate our Bromley staff. We will continue trading as normal and will continue servicing our Bromley clients in the usual […]

We are pleased to confirm that market-leading conveyancing and property services group, Simplify has announced the acquisition of Cook Taylor Woodhouse Solicitors as part of an ongoing growth strategy, strengthening its presence in London and the South East and increasing the range of options available for clients and introducers. The company, set up in 2019, […]