A Review of The Work Undertaken by us During the Course of a Property Transaction
  1 Supplying information to your buyers and obtaining it from your sellers.
  2 Checking that the sellers legally own the property
  3 Agreeing the terms of the contracts for sale and purchase.
  4 When everyone is ready and the same moving date has been agreed between the sellers and buyers, exchanging contracts on both transactions at once; this is the stage at which you are committed to move and a deposit of 10% is usually payable.
  5 Making the pre completion legal arrangements and checks.
  6 Getting the mortgage money from your new lender and any balance we will need from you.
  7

On moving day:

  • receiving the purchase money from your sale
  • paying off your old mortgage
  • paying for your new house
  • sending any surplus to you
  8 Registering your ownership at the land registry which may take some months - although that makes no difference from your point of view - and we will let you know when we receive your certificate of ownership.
  9 Acting for your lenders to make sure that their interest are properly protected.
  10 You will get the deeds of the house (or we can store them for you) unless you have a mortgage: in that case the lender will keep them; they may however let you keep the old deeds which are no longer needed for conveyancing but which might be of interest to you.

The above will apply if you are buying a property at the same time as you are selling a property. They will slightly differ if you are only buying or only selling a property.

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