Housing solicitors
The Housing Team at Hopkin Murray Beskine has extensive experience. Together we offer a breadth of expertise and client care which is second to none.
We act predominantly for tenants, leaseholders and the homeless but also act for landlords including housing co-operatives. Our objective for whichever side we are representing is to carry out work as quickly as possible and to achieve the best results.
We have led the way in Housing and related Public Law matters and have a number of reported cases.
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How HMB’s housing law solicitors can help you
Housing problems:
- Possession proceedings/applications for eviction
- Claims based on housing disrepair. We can instruct independent surveyors to carry out inspections, compel a landlord to carry out works, and provide representation in claims for damages based on disrepair and related personal injury.
- Nuisance, anti-social behaviour and other breaches of tenancy obligations.
- Illegal eviction and harassment, including applications for injunctions for re-entry.
- Assignment and succession
- Protected/statutory tenancies under the Rent Act 1977
- Tolerated trespassers
- Mortgage repossession and forfeiture proceedings
- Service charge disputes
- Housing allocation and transfers
- All aspects of homelessness.
- Other access to housing help, including through social services and asylum support
General civil litigation:
- Claims arising out of commercial leases
- Building disputes
- Boundary disputes and transfer to land.
Testimonial in the Legal 500 guide, 2026 edition:
‘Hopkin Murray Beskine are amongst the very best of housing solicitors and have been for many years. They have a relatively small team but it is pure quality throughout, from partners down to paralegals.’
Testimonial in the Chambers UK Guide, 2026 edition:
“Hopkin Murray Beskine provide clever, strategic thinking. Their minds are always on the bigger picture.”
What will it cost?
Depending upon your financial circumstances you may qualify for legal aid.
We will automatically carry out an assessment when we first have contact with you to see whether or not you are eligible.
If you are not entitled to legal aid we will discuss with you other ways of funding your case including no win no fee agreements where appropriate and fixed fees.
Clients say
About our housing solicitors
Our housing team is recommended in both the Legal 500 and the Chambers UK Guide.
The practice also has a strong team of juniors, including Rosie Gibbs and Beatrice Patrick.
Related housing law services include
Selected testimonials, 2024, 2023, 2022
The Legal 500 publication, 2024 edition, gathered testimonials about Hopkin Murray Beskine. They include:
‘Hopkin Murray Beskine’s social housing team is among the best in the business. The team is relatively small, but the quality of the members is uniformly extremely high and, as well as providing an outstanding service to individual clients, they have long punched above their weight in terms of ground-breaking cases in the higher courts.’
‘Ann Bevington is one of the best solicitors I have worked with. She is knowledgeable, intelligent, dedicated and thorough, as well as being a pleasure to work with.
‘Lesley Curtis is a similarly dedicated and tenacious litigator and achieves fantastic results for her clients.’
The Legal 500 guide 2023 said that our specialist team is “unrivalled in terms of concentrated quality” and describes Ann Bevington and Lesley Curtis as “standout individuals within the social housing world” who are “formidable, highly knowledgeable, thorough, dedicated and all round exceptional” and who “go many extra miles for their clients”.
The 2022 Chambers UK Guide said that our solicitors are “exceptionally brilliant” and “do everything they can to get the best outcome”.
Client reviews include:
Our housing solicitors are based in London
Hopkin Murray Beskine’s London office:
The Ivories, Unit 17,
6 – 18 Northampton Street,
London, N1 2HY.
Our team of housing law specialists are here to help you through the process. They take real pride in what they do and how they do it, delivering an outstanding service.
