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 am planning on selling my flat in the new year. Recently there was an unattended and natural death of the man in the flat above me. The death was not discovered for some days, & as a result there were quite a lot of flies in his flat, which spread into...
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I'm looking to purchase my first home next year. I was gifted a share of a property in another country which I no longer have. Would I still be considered a first time buyer? I would like to know if I need to pay stamp duty?
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We have just learnt that half our garden is actually agricultural land. Is it possible for the conveyancing solicitor to have checked this and advised us. It makes a huge difference to us that we cannot turn this portion of our garden to flower beds ...
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recently completed on a 3 bedroom house with an annex in the back garden. this is a stand alone and has bathroon/shower and cooking facilities. At the time our solicitor just out this transaction through 'normal' stamp duty - we paid 16k on...
Should our solicitor of noticed the pre emptive clause in the legal pack before they sent it onto the buyers solicitor which then caused a massive delay in getting it sorted and the buyers lender withdrew their offer so house sale collapsed. The housing a...
Sale/PurchaseI have recently discovered that the Land Registry Scotland map shows that the Land I thought I own is different to what I thought. When I bought my house it had its own paved driveway with a fence. I have recently discovered that my neighbour actually own...
Sale/PurchaseWe had a sale agreed with all searches completed and payed for a leasehold pack. At the last minute our buyers pulled out. We have since excepted a new offer and are hoping that because the leasehold pack is less than 3 months old we can use the same one ...
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My mortgage expired yesterday and a new application is being made today with the same lender by my mortgage broker. Can I expect my solicitor to keep obtaining responses to enquiries until the new offer comes in. This is to say - could the...
I formally reserved a new build apartment. On an ad hoc visit to the development I discovered that the developer has put the purchaser of another apartment in my reserved property as his new build property had too many serious snagging issues for him to o...
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