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.
My son owns the legal estate in a property; at purchase I provided half the money and he and I entered into a Declaration of Trust whereby we own half the equitable estate each. We are now selling and so half the proceeds of sale will come to me. There wi...
Transfers & GiftsOur mother would like to gift her property to my brother and myself as the only children and no other immediate family apart from our elderly father, but thinks she may have put title deeds of her house on our garden bonfire. All we have at present is a s...
Transfers & GiftsI have a leasehold flat which is my residence but I am thinking that gifting it to my son might be a good option for me . . would I be allowed to gift the property to him or bequeath it to him in my will the remaining lease is 62 years . . ...
Transfers & GiftsCan I use your transfer of equity kit to give my 50% share of our property to my children? The property has a'retainer mortgage' of around £100 with the bank who hold the deeds in store....
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My mother and I have a property we own together and we are in the process of transferring full ownership to my mother. We do have a conveyancing lawyer but she has not been helpful when it comes to calculating a transfer of funds for my share, or wha...
I wish to transfer my half of my residential property to my sister who I jointly own the house for no monetary consideration. When is the transfer legally effective, when I sign the form of transfer or when the land registry notes this on the register,...
Transfers & GiftsIs it essential to complete and submit form OS1 for transfer of equity involving just changing ownership from joint spouses' ownership to single spouse?...
Transfers & GiftsI HAVE RECENTLY SOLD MY HOUSE BUT RETAINED PART OF THE GARDEN WITH THE INTENTION OF GIVING IT TO MY SON TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR HIMSELF BECAUSE HE RENTS AT THE MOMENT. Do either of us pay tax?...
Transfers & GiftsThe property developer that has built a housing estate on land adjacent to my drive offered to give me a strip of land (1.5 metres wide)along my drive. The context is that there is a reasonable possibility that this strip will be declared a public footpat...
Transfers & GiftsCan we add my father to title deeds he is a pensioner now. He will not be paying the mortgage as he had gifted us 240k five years back...
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