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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Near where I live there is a blokc of flats (fairly new) where the freeholder added another floor after a few years, despite leaseholder objections. In other words those in the original top floor flats became sub top floor. My question is would that permission to add a floor have been in the original lease, or is this soemthing any freeholder can do?
It would be unusual to have a covenant in a lease preventing the freeholder from further developing the site - he owns not only the land but the airspace above it so he can do as he wishes subject to compliance with planning laws. The only restriction the existing leases would impose would be that there is a covenant (which is implied even if not expressly set out) in every lease to allow the tenant "quiet enjoyment". In other words the landlord cannot behave in a way that interferes with the tenant's normal use and enjoyment of his flat, so if the building work caused a serious disturbance then the tenant might have been able to prevent it happening but now it's done the tenants can't reverse it.