• We Are The Buyer Of A Small Piece Of Footpath. Do We Need To Complete Any Forms Or Is This The Sellers Responsibility.

    By muzboy on 22nd Jan 2017

    Hi,

    We are building a house in our garden. As part of the plot we are purchasing a footpath (1m x 12m) that is currently owned by the builders who built the houses in the road back in the 1950's.

    We have agreed a sale price of £3,500 for the footpath as well as agreeing to pay the sellers solicitor fees. In terms of us being the buyer do we need to complete any other documents or is the onus on the seller to put everything together and we just agree to what has been advised and pay for the land?

    I appreciate once the purchase has been made we would then need to register the land with the land registry and as it is a low purchase value we would not even need to complete the confirm identify form.

    Any advice you can give would be greatly received.

    Kind regards,
    Adam Skilbeck

  • 1 Answers

    By Guest on 27/01/2017

    Normally the seller will prepare the contract (you might not bother with a contract for a transaction like this) and the buyer will prepare the transfer deed, but there's nothing to prevent the seller from doing both and where the buyer is not represented the seller's lawyer will often prefer to draft the documents. You will need to draft the AP1 following completion to submit to Land Registry.

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