Regional

Sale & Purchase

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.

Pre-Exchange

Post-Exchange

Overview

Documents & Guides

Remortgages & Transfers

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.

Remortgages

Remortgage Conveyancing

Transfers & Gifts

Documents & Guides

DIY Conveyancing / General

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.

Information

General Guides

Services

Documents & Guides

Conveyancing Searches

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.

Standard

Regional

Optional

Conveyancing Searches

Quote Request

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.

Quote Type

Order

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.

Professional Services

Conveyancing Searches

Documents & Resources

Regional

British Waterways Search

This is a search of records relating waterways (rivers, canals, streams etc) which will reveal such things as ownership of and responsibility for the riverbank, fishing and mooring rights, licences to extract water and drainage rights. It is sometime...
Coal Mining Search

This is a search of the coal authority's records of past mining activity to establish whether the property is on land which is at risk from mining subsidence. Click here to see an example coal mining search result. Why request a Coal M...
Flood Search - Flood Risk Report

As anyone who watches the news will know, problems caused by flooding in Britain are on the increase. As a result, insurers are becoming nervous about covering properties in areas known to be at high risk from flooding. To assist with the situation, ...
Gypsum Mining Search

This is a search to establish whether a property is built on or near to a former Gypsum mine. Gypsum is a mineral used in the production of plaster, plasterboard and cement. Why order a Gypsum search? Abandoned opencast gypsum mines are often backfil...
Lead Mining Search

Lead mining is concentrated in the Derbyshire Peak District and in north Wales. I cannot locate a provider of a search, however if acting in the purchase of a property in these areas you should consider raising enquiries of the local authority planni...
Limestone Mining Search

This a mining search to establish whether the property might be affected by past limestone mining activity. Why order a Limestone Search? A search should be considered for properties in the West Midlands, where limestone mining was common until the 1...
Tin Mining Search

This is search to see whether a property is in an area which may be adversely affected by past tin or copper mining activity. Ordering the Search The search can be ordered in writing from Cornwall Consultants. They will require the address of th...
Commons Registration Search

This is a search to establish whether the land which is being purchased is registered as common land in accordance with the Commons Registration Act 1965. Why request a Commons Registration Search? If the property is in a rural area or if access is g...
Cheshire Brine Search

This is a search of the Cheshire Brine Compensation Board's records to ascertain whether the property has been adversely affected by brine mining. Why Request a Cheshire Brine Search? This search should be done if the property is in Cheshire. Similar...
China Clay Mining Search

This is mining search, to establish whether the property is on land with known clay deposits which may be worked in the future, or whether it has been mined in the past. Why order a China Clay Search? For properties in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset a se...