SELLING
We offer a complete conveyancing service to help you through every stage of selling your home, which includes:
Working with your estate agents and buyers’ solicitors
Writing to all parties advising we are acting on your behalf
Drafting the necessary Contract papers
Establishing how much you owe on any mortgage secured upon your existing property
Dealing with your buyers’ solicitors and answering any enquiries raised
Attending on you to sign the contracts and other legal documents
Negotiating a convenient date for completion of your sale
Repaying your existing mortgages upon sale of the property and settling the estate agents fees
BUYING
Working with the estate Agent and the Sellers Solicitor
Searches carried out and enquiries raised
Draft contract received and information regarding the property checked
Receiving and checking mortgage offer is satisfactory and the conditions are met
Sending you a detailed title report ensuring you are fully aware of everything you need to know about the property you are buying
Attending on you to sign the contracts and other legal documents
Agreeing the completion date and obtaining deposit
Exchanging contracts
Requesting and obtaining mortgage funds from your lender
On completion paying balance of purchase price to seller’s solicitors and ensuring release of keys
Paying any SDLT to HM Revenue
Registration of your property with HM Land Registry
TIMESCALES
A standard transaction will take approximately 6 weeks from the time we are instructed. However, every transaction is slightly different depending upon a number of factors such as:-
The number of parties in the chain
The other parties’ circumstances
The time taken for your buyer to obtain a mortgage offer, search results and surveys.
Whether there is a management company involved
Other parties’ timescales
Occasionally we may need to increase your fixed fee – this may be due to but not limited to the following
– Septic tanks
– Private water supplies
– Deed of variations
– Complicated title matters
– Adverse possession
– Lease defects
– Retrospective consent
– Conditional exchange of contracts
– Missing documentation
– Transfer of part
