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.
My wife and I are buying some rental properties jointly. I am thinking about setting it up with a Deed of Trust to split the income. What would appear on the tile? Basically I want to know if it would show my wife as sole owner or for example 75% owner and me as 25% owner. If it is just my wife's name it would be difficult to borrow against the property as she earns less than £25K. We need to use the property to buy more properties. Thanks for your help it is appreciated.
It depends who buys the property. Your wife can buy it in her sole name and set up a trust so that she holds it on trust for both of you in which case all that would appear on the title would be her as sole owner and if you wanted, a restriction preventing her from selling without complying the terms of the trust. The land registry don't record beneficial interests and you cannot mortgage a beneficial interest - you have to be a joint legal owner to mortgage.
You could buy the property together and still hold it on trust for each other in whatever shares you wanted, so for example you could be joint legal owners but hold the equity in 75%/25% shares or whatever suited (so you would be entitled to that proportion of the income). You could then mortgage it together.