Whether you're a layman looking to understand your own transaction or a lawyer needing assistance with a client's conveyancing our step by step sale and purchase guides will lead you through the process while our mini guides will break the whole thing into manageable chunks and give a deep insight into the key issues and stages. Leasehold, freehold, unregistered, registered – we've got it all covered.
Need help with a remortgage or transfer of equity / deed of gift? Our guides will walk you through the process and highlight some of the common pitfalls. Mortgages and transfers can be very simple procedures but complex issues can sometimes arise and mistakes are easily made. These guides will help you deal with them.
So you want to have a go at your own conveyancing? First you should read about the risks, then if you're still happy to proceed, our guides will take you through each stage of the process telling you what to look out for and helping you avoid falling into expensive traps. Our subscription service will give you access to all of the documents you should need for your conveyancing and we can even supply you with the Land Registry Official Copies you'll need. Our general guides will cover all the obstacles you are likely to face and offer a practical solution. Have a look at our sale and purchase guides too.
A big part of the conveyancing process is the conveyancing searches. This section tells you all about them. What they are, how and when to order them and how to interpret the results. Each search has its own guide and you'll see they are separated into Standard (should be done in every case), Regional (area specific) and Optional (not essential but often useful tools for the would be purchaser). All buyers should beware that when you buy a property, the law assumes that you have seen the information that would have been revealed by searches whether or not you have actually carried them out, so you buy the property subject to the results.
Using a conveyancer to handle your conveyancing will greatly reduce the risk to you and sometimes, particularly if you are taking out a new mortgage, you will have no choice but to instruct a conveyancer. The good news is it doesn't have to break the bank. Get a free, instant quote here. We can also help with quick easy quotes for other moving related services.
Are you looking for the documents you'll need for your conveyancing transaction? Or official copies of the title or other documents from Land Registry. We can help you. Follow the links below.
I have a leasehold flat which is my residence but I am thinking that gifting it to my son might be a good option for me . . would I be allowed to gift the property to him or bequeath it to him in my will the remaining lease is 62 years . . ...
Transfers & GiftsCan I use your transfer of equity kit to give my 50% share of our property to my children? The property has a'retainer mortgage' of around £100 with the bank who hold the deeds in store....
Transfers & GiftsHi Not sure if you can help but I have exhausted all other lines of enquiry. I bought a house around 11 years ago with my then wife. We subsequently divorced, She wants to come off the mortgage and my new wife wants to be added. I even have a solicitors '...
MortgagesHi,my lawyers are holding up my house purchase saying an lpE1 doc for a leasehold garage sold with the property is required,while we are unable to get this done in time...is this document a show stopper pls advice...
Sale/PurchaseIam about the buy a studio flat on the third floor of a block of flats. The searches are working out nearly £300. Is it even worth purchasing them, as I imagine the freeholder would have responsibility of the environment issues around the block....
SearchesIs it easy to alter the land registry so that my son owns a property that I purchased with him...
Land RegistryMy apartment has an unexpired lease of 69 years, and the freeholder informed me that it can be surrendered and re-granted to its original term of 99 years. I propose to act on my own behalf. ...
DIY ConveyancingWe are thinking of buying a house with an annexe for my mother. She currently owns a house (no mortgage), would sell it and use £250000 as deposit for the new house and my husband and I would take out a mortgage for the rest (£450000). My mothers name w...
Sale/PurchaseMy parents bought a bungalow by the sea, very happy and one day whilst doing "their" garden the neighbour two doors up who owns the shared drive way that everyone has access over that it's his land not theirs. Since looking into it, it's not my parents la...
Sale/PurchaseIs it necessary to engage a solicitor to transfer 50% of the title of a property I own to my spouse as a gift? ...
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