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.
Myself and my wife were renting a property and both signed rental agreements to that effect,and the landlord was known to both of us personally, but any communications regarding the property went through a letting agency.
My wife was a named beneficiary of a recent inheritance, and her trustees decided to buy the property from the landlord, the landlord is also a beneficiary of a trust, they're the main capital beneficiary.
Valuation was based on a leasehold tenure with vacant possession, but the trustees purchased the freehold based on the leasehold valuation.
The property sale was with a vacant possession, but as we were rent paying tenants no one told us about having to move out to fulfil the vacant possession needed.
Today we continue to live in the property and recently the property was transferred to my wife as the new owner.
When I questioned the trustees about vacant possession even though we had authorisation to continue to live in the property after the sale, the trustees replied saying, we based it on vacant possession to reduce the amount of funds needed to pay for the property, but I have found out that it would of been cheaper to be with tenants in situ..
One of the trustees had been assigned to deal with the purchase and transfer of the property, but he was a solicitor then, the solicitor was appointed as a trustee just before the purchase
To me it seems that the vendor and purchasers and solicitor have acted knowingly with disregard for the Law..
What is the best route for me to take...
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