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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Disbursements are cost which are payable as part of a conveyancing transaction via your conveyancer to third parties. These are costs which do not form part of a conveyancer's fees. The following are some of the more common disbursements that you mig...
Completion Day Order of Events The buyer's conveyancer should ensure that he has both the mortgage funds (if a mortgage is required) and funds from his client no later than the working day before completion. This is because the funds will most likely...
The purpose of the pre-completion searches is to prevent entries being registered against the property (or in the case of the bankruptcy search, the purchaser) from exchange of contracts up to the completion of the registration process, so that the b...
What is Exchange of Contracts? This is when the contract becomes legally binding on both buyer and seller (note that merely signing it does not bind either party). It is so called because both buyer and seller sign identical copies of the contract an...
When acting for a purchaser who is buying with a mortgage the conveyancer will, on the vast majority of occasions, also act for the lender. It should be noted that no commercial (as opposed to private) lender will allow the purchaser to carry out his...
The Seller's Property Information Form TA6, often shortened to SPIF is part of the Law Society's National Conveyancing Protocol and should be completed by the seller(s). This chapter will take you through the SPIF produced by the Law Society and dist...
Making the Application for Registration (AP1) What is Registration? Registration is the process by which a land transaction (such as a purchase, remortgage, transfer of equity, deed of gift etc.) is notified to H M Land Registry and by which the regi...
Under the Land Registration Act 2002 (which repealed the Land Registration Act 1925) it is compulsory for all land in England and Wales to be registered with the Land Registry. The trigger for registration is a change of ownership, such as a sale, gi...
What are Requisitions on Title? These are a set of questions, usually in the Law Society's standard Completion Information and Requisitions on Title form designed to ensure that certain key information is obtained prior to completion. They are r...
The leasehold information form (TA7) is one of the standard Law Society protocol forms used in transactions where the property is leasehold. It is completed by the seller in addition to the Property Information Form and asks a serious of questions sp...