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Residential Conveyancing Basics
Buying a house with a mortgage means conveyancing has to run alongside your lender's own requirements, not just the seller's side of the deal — your conveyancer usually acts for both you and your lender, checks that the property meets the lender's conditions, and only requests your mortgage funds once everything is ready for exchange.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
The most common pitfalls when buying a leasehold flat include underestimating the importance of the remaining lease term, not budgeting properly for ground rent and service charges, missing restrictions buried in the lease, and being caught out by slow management pack requests. Most of these are avoidable simply by knowing to look for them before you're deep into the purchase.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
Once your offer is accepted, legally speaking almost nothing has actually happened yet — an accepted offer is not binding in England and Wales, and the real legal process only begins once solicitors are instructed and starts to firm up at exchange of contracts.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
Conveyancing isn't identical across the UK. Scotland runs on a genuinely different legal system built around missives, while England, Wales and Northern Ireland share more common ground.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
Relocating for a new job adds a fixed deadline to a conveyancing process that rarely runs to a fixed schedule. Here's how to plan for it.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
Buying on your own doesn't change the legal steps of conveyancing, but it does change who makes every decision, covers every cost and answers every question.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
Why unmarried couples need to take extra care with ownership structure and declarations of trust when buying a home together.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
What married couples need to know about the conveyancing process, including the joint tenants versus tenants in common decision.
Residential Conveyancing Basics
From medieval land ceremonies to modern land registration, a look at where conveyancing came from and why it still works the way it does.
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