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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Me and my sibling where left our mothers share of her estate in her will when she died. However she owned the property with her husband. We were due to be left her percentage of the estate however on the land registry only her partners name is down as the title absolute. Could he have removed her name and is there anyway of finding out if her name was removed at any point? Our solicitor is trying to tell us we have a lost case as only his name is on the deeds however it is also down as a tenancy in common. Where can we go from here? Thanks
When two people own a property jointly and one dies the survivor can remove the deceased's name from the register by submitting form DJP to Land Registry with a copy of the death certificate. A key indicator of this is the date in brackets next to the name of the proprietor in section B of the Official Copy of Register of Title. If this date is after the date the property was originally purchased it means that the owner details have been changed. If the date is after your mother's death this lends weight to the theory that her name has been removed. The Land Registry keep records of these changes so they will be able to confirm. If your mother was joint owner at the time of her death then even though her name has been removed her husband still holds the property on trust for himself and her estate and is under a legal duty to ensure that her share (or the equivalent in money) is paid to her executor to distribute according to her will