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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Can I make a contractual agreement before buying a property with a partner, using a mortgage, with regards to what would happen if one of us decides to move on. So if both of our names are on the mortgage, what happens if one decides to move on after 5 years for eg. Can we make an agreement in advance agreeing that we are going to review our partnership every 2 years for eg. Or that we will receive from the sale of the property exactly what we have invested. So if one has invested 60% and another has invested 30% is it very easy to draw up a contract to the effect that that is exactly the proportion received by each on sale?
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You can enter into a declaration of trust which sets out what shares each of you are entitled to receive when the property is sold and it cn contain provisions saying for example if one of you wanted ypto sell the other has to cooperate and how you agree on the sale price etc. This is only for the purposes of setting out in writing what your intentions were at the time of the purchase though and in the event of a dispute in future it would need to be enforced through the courts who may take into account intervening events when deciding whether to enforce it strictly.