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 an unusual and difficult situation. A valuable property with a plot of land was sold under a court order in divorce proceedings where one full joint owner was kicked off the selling process by a court order made in very suspect circumstances. This gave one owner control of a sale which needed careful management due to land on the same title deed as the house. Fast forward. The marketing was suspect. The property was not described fully nor exposed fully to market and underselling was very apparent. The court orders had left one owner impotent to these actions as a clause had been added unseen and sealed into the court order giving sole control to one party! Again fast forward. The sale unfolding was unlawful on numerous counts not least that the kicked off owner was not kept informed as an interested party and was refused this obligation by the agent. Importantly there was no evidence of any selling contract with the agent as with only one owner presumably one could not exist. A low offer which made no sense of the true property value was signed by court despite kicked off owner's human rights being breached and their concerns put to court about not being ID'd nor money launder checked by anybody in the process being problematic and itself unlawful.The court signed in place of this owner. There were restrictions on the title deeds which the contract for sale limited recourse to the buyer on as one was a fraud restrction in respect of both proprietors. The Land Registry cannot pass title as the court orders do not permit what has been done by the court. There are issues as the seller (the kicked off owner) has not been ID'd and is not the Judge who signed in their place! The selling contract limits any recourse to the buyer as it has been altered to state they knew there were the restrictions on the deeds which were not removed and they went ahead despte this. The Land Registry have cancelled passing of title at each attempt by the buyer. This extraordinary situation persists. It seesm the selling contract has various clauses removed. It is as if the court and conveyancing solicitor who was ordered by court to act on behalf of BOTH owners (despite kicking one off!) have panicked and pushed an unlawfully constructed sale through despite concerned warnings by the kicked off owner. More surprisingly the buyer's solicitors have agreed to the terms. Can you offer any forensic contract assessment to see the full implications of what has occurred? The kicked off buyer does not necessarily have the final version of the contract by nature of being sidelined and seeks the final version. Any advice on legal rights to this as a full joint owner (property held as tenants in common)and also to copies of the banking transactions to see what was really paid for the property and the land?
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