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.
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Hi I need help. We completed and moved 6 months ago. During the selling process we discovered that a part of our front garden which we believed was ours was in fact unregistered. The buyer and solicitors were aware of this and we had to drop the price by a few thousand as buyer threatened to walk. We made lots of concessions (he's a landlord) and basically he wanted everything for nothing! We werent happy about it but agreed. Now, months later, i get a letter from our conveyancer saying that the buyers lawyer wants us to sign an ST1 form to agree that we used the land in question without objection. As I havent dealt with this matter straight away, the buyers lawyers have become very bullish saying that they will take it further as misdescription, even though the buyer decreased his offer to take into account the land was unregistered. What do i do? I really dont want to deal with this person and dont see why i should sign the form to make his life easier if he is in process of buying the land. Apparently it was never agreed that this would be signed and my solicitor is saying they cant help as they deal only with conveyancing and not litigation. Also my online solicitor was absolutely useless. The extra money he got from us should be adequate for him to deal with himself
The buyers solicitor messed up as they should have got the statutory declaration from yourselves prior to completion as now they can’t register that piece of land without it! That’s why they are being bullish as they will now be under pressure from the buyer by also the buyers lender (assuming he took a Mortgage).
Fact is you can tell them to get lost if there was no prior agreement to provide this BUT they will get even more bullish and threaten all sorts as I say because they have messed up, to make it go away just sign the ST1 (assuming you are able to give the declaration I.e you did use the land in question) and send it back to them. Tell them to pay your costs for getting advice about it and getting it signed.
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