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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Selling a freehold property on. 2.5year newbuild site with a private management company for communal areas (this has not been maintained and third hand have been told the management company has changed. Now apparently there is a deed of variation with the new management company and they are trying to charge £600 to agree to the deed of variation in order for our sale to go through. What are the legalities around this and should we have been informed about a deed of variation? We are not leasehold. Confused!
Depends on the circumstances of the case and background.
we have the same situation. my freehold property was built in 2007 and in a managed estate. our buyer's solicitor insists to have the deed of variation signed off by the management company. But other sellers in the estate didn't need to get one.
the management company is really difficult to deal with. they don't reply at all and it has been 1 month since our solicitor sent them the first enquiry. our sale is on hold purely for this piece of document.
We are going through this now. Our buyer on the same estate does not need one but we do. It has taken so far 2 months. The management company after some time and changes signed this, then it have to go to the original developer. However our developer sold so we had to trace any active directors. This was okay, but then it had to go to their solicitors…..they still have this. We are due to move on 17th May and still not exchanged.
We have no idea what the additional costs will be, but a person on our estate paid 1,500 and it took 9 weeks.
Not good.