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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We have been in our new build home since Dec 2013, the site is near completion now and the site foreman has asked up to alter our garden back so that the walk way between our home and the show home is joint access. We removed a gate and fencing as our Land Registry document shows the whole are as belonging to us. At the time we altered the garden we asked the builders - Barretts to move the show homes gate as it effectively opened up into our walkway (that they are now saying is shared access), we showed them the deeds and the gate was moved. Now the site foreman is saying this is not our land and is in fact shared access and our plans are wrong and we need to get it put back as it was? Surely our Land Registry deeds are legally binding and if they have made an error tough luck, we signed this paperwork as supplied to our Solicitor by the builder? They have paperwork showing it as being shared.
One can only speculate without seeing the deeds, but it could be that the land is yours but is subject to a right of way for the benefit of the show home. If that's the case then you will need to make sure that access to the show home can be gained at all times. You should also bear in mind that whilst the Land Registry filed plan is indicative as to the position of the boundary it is not intended to be definitive and can't be relied upon absolutely in the event of a dispute. There is no minimum or maximum tolerance. Nonetheless the builder could of course be wrong. Depending on how valuable the land and/or the principle is to you, you should consider getting a surveyor to the look at the plan to the TP1 (the deed that transferred ownership of the land to you) for an opinion.