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 own one of two flats in a house that has shared freehold/leasehold. My fellow freeholder/leaseholder is selling her flat and her solicitor has asked to complete the TR1. She has been an absolute nightmare and has broken the lease repeatedly, including preventing my right of emergency exit from my external staircase to the street through a gate in her garden by putting a lock on it and refusing to give me a key. I eventually had to threaten to report this to the police before she would budge (I had never previously used the exit in 5 years and only discovered that she'd put a lock on the gate when I actually did need to use it.)
She did then replace it with a bolt, but despite my polite requests, her tenants continued to block it by placing plants on the stairs.
The LPE1 asks if there have been any disputes or breaches of the lease and as it's a legal document, I feel that I cannot lie and say there haven't been. In particular, I'm concerned that the new buyer will continue to breach the lease by blocking the staircase and I don't want to start off on a bad foot with them by having to mention it straightaway.
I've explained my difficult in completing the form to the buyer's solicitor and said that I want to be helpful and would be happy to complete the TR1 to say that there were no breaches or disputes if they would make it clear to the buyer as part of their enquiries that the staircase is part of my property and that my exit must not be blocked or obstructed. They have ignored my email.
I'm assuming therefore that they would prefer their client to lie on the LPE1 than clarify this. May I further assume that in setting out my concerns and making a reasonable offer to resolve them I have therefore made my best efforts as freeholder/leaseholder in assisting with their client's sale?
No answers has been posted yet!