Kate Cunniff Solicitor
Conveyancing
Kate Cunniff is a Solicitor in the Conveyancing team at Swinburne Maddison. She obtained her MLaw from Northumbria University in 2017 and began her legal career as a Paralegal at another North East Law firm. Kate qualified as a solicitor in 2022, later joining the Swinburne Maddison team in 2023, focusing on residential property law.
Kate advises clients on a wide range of residential property matters, ensuring a smooth and stress-free transaction process. She is known for her clear communication and commitment to delivering a client-focused service. Kate works closely with buyers, sellers, investors, and mortgage lenders to facilitate efficient property transactions. She aims to streamline processes and proactively identifies potential issues to resolve them before they impact transactions.
Kate is passionate about making property law more accessible to clients, explaining complex legal terms in a straightforward manner. She prides herself on building strong relationships with clients and industry professionals, ensuring each transaction is handled with precision and care.
- Residential Property Sales and Purchases
- Remortgages
- Leasehold Properties
- New Build Properties
Kate has extensive experience in residential property law, advising on freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, lease extensions, remortgages, and transfers of equity. Her ability to foresee potential complications and proactively manage transactions has resulted in seamless experiences for her clients.
Whether the client is a first-time buyer, investor, or dealing with a more complex property issue, Kate takes time to get to know her clients to understand their requirements and adapts her approach to suit. She is keen to ensure that all clients are kept informed at key milestones of the matters and they have a positive experience during one of life’s key moments.
Throughout her career, Kate has played a key role in high-value and complex property transactions, supporting clients with a wide range of needs. She consistently receives positive feedback for her dedication, responsiveness, and ability to simplify complex legal processes. Her work is underpinned by her core values of trust, care, agility, and collaboration, ensuring that each client receives tailored and efficient service.
“A pleasure dealing with Kate over the last several months on a protracted sale of a property with complications. We found Kate to be very reassuring, approachable, helpful and professional during this time and communicated throughout. We would not hesitate to recommend Kate to friends and associates.”
“Kate remained professional throughout the purchase of our property. She was prompt and efficient with any queries that were raised putting me at ease. I couldn’t recommend Kate enough she remained professional at all times. Thank you for all your help it was very much appreciated.”
“Kate has worked on several sales and purchases for my development company, I find her very honest, knowledgeable, and always happy to answer any questions very quickly. I would highly recommend Kate and will definitely be using her again in the future.”
“I have used Kate for three property purchases as an investor and can honestly say this has been the best experience I have ever had with a solicitor. Efficient, friendly, prompt are three words I would not previously have associated with solicitors especially with property involved, but this is exactly how I would describe Kate! I wouldn’t use anyone else now and have already recommended Kate and the firm to my family and business contacts. Thanks for everything!”
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