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.
Hi, I a looking into purchasing a freehold flat. I am aware of the issues of mortgagability. However, I have also been made aware that there is no lease in place to ensure that all flatowners in the block have adequate building insurance cover. Currently, (it is believed) that all the flats are arranging their own buildings insurance cover independently.
Is there a insurance policy available that covers this risk, that the building may be inadequately insured by one or more of the flatowners? This is one aspect that is not covered in the freehold flat legal indemnity covers that I have encountered.
I'm not sure there is an indemnity policy available. If there no possibility of a lease being granted? What is the arrangement? How may flats are in the block and are the freeholds of the individual flats separately owned or is the whole of the freehold in common ownership?
Hi. There are 4 flats in the building, all of which, it is assumed, are currently buying freehold flat insurance to cover their own individual flats only. The flats are all separately owned with a freehold title. I realise now that this a rare situation. I do not know the other flat owners, so don't know about the possibility of converting the ownership to share freehold with leases, but I have been led to believe that the legal cost will be around £5000 to do this and draft new leases. I doubt I will be able to convince all the flat owners to stump up towards this.