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.
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I have freehold house but share a commuanl car [ark with 6 leasehold flats who have a property management company to carry out maintenance etc. At no point during my purchase did my conyeyancing solicitor mention this and i am now being asked to contribute and the property management compaany says i have signed a TP1 form so am liable. I have checked and the original owner of the house did in fact sign this TP1 document but i have not , do i have to pay them ?
Ordinarily in this situation the transfer from the builder to the first purchaser (the TP1) would contain a covenant by the purchaser to make the contribution and a restriction would be placed on the property title basically saying that each time the property is sold the new owner has to enter into a covenant with the maintenance company to make the payments. If you have not entered into such a covenant (which would have been contained in a deed of covenant), or if you have not become a member or shareholder of the company then they may not be able to force you to pay but if the TP1 contains both a right to use the parking space and an obligation on the property owner to contribute to maintenance then under the rule in Halsall v Brizell [1957] you may be prevented from using the space
Could you recommend someone to speak to about this issue , its obviously complex and i need some guidance ?
All residents in this small development, of 5 properties.signed the TP1 agreeing that the communal land would be transferred to a limited management company, which we would run. This transfer would take place after the sale of the last property. The final property was sold 2 years ago. However, the developer will not transfer the land to the property owners and his solicitors just say they have no instruction to do so, despite being their acting solicitor throughout and drawing up the TP1.
What should our next step be?