Property Law
Stages/Timescales:​
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1. Memorandum of Sale issued by the estate agent (unless sale by private treaty).
2. Seller's solicitor sends contract papers to Buyer's solicitor.
3. Buyer performs searches/survey and raises enquiries.
4. Seller's solicitor replies to enquiries.
5. Buyer's solicitor reports to buyer; documents and funds are prepared for completion.
6. Exchange of contracts; this is the binding agreement to sell and buy the property and fixes the completion date, usually a week or two later.
7. Completion; money and keys change hands.
8. Buyer's solicitor completes registration.
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The whole process can take anything from 6 weeks to 6 months (or more); it depends on the property, the parties, the funding of the transaction, whether there is a chain of transactions or not, etc; we cannot offer any guarantees on timing but we do offer a bespoke personal service and will move at the pace which suits you.
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Always give our name to your estate agent at the outset; this will save duplication of fees for Anti-Money Laundering and ID checks.
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Leases of shops, offices, industrial units, pubs, café’s, warehouses, restaurants, etc
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Lease Extensions and Renewals
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Lease Terminations and Surrenders
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Bespoke Residential Conveyancing (Buying/Selling your home/Investment property)
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Auction Sales and Purchases
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Shared Ownership
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Right to Buy, Help to Buy and Forces Help to Buy
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Remortgages and Transfer of Equity
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Assured Shorthold Tenancies
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First Time Buyers, Buy to Let and Corporate Purchasers
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Probate sales and sales involving Powers of Attorney
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Farm land, amenity and recreational land
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Adverse Possession and other HM Land Registry applications
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Restrictions, Cautions and their removal
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Declarations of Trust
