Conveyancing & Property

Buying a Property

The following steps give you a general idea of the steps throughout your freehold property purchase.

(We would refer you to our Terms of Business, which will be forwarded with our Client Care pack, as these details the full scope of work included and not included in our Charges).

1. Once we’ve received full instructions and details of your purchase from the selling agents (if applicable) we can issue our Client Care Pack to you.
2. When you have returned your forms and ID we’ll need to carry out certain checks (e.g. checking the information you have provided regarding finances to fund your purchase such as mortgage or third party gifts/loans). We will also request funds on account from you to cover the cost of the searches, which will be detailed in our Client Care Pack.
3. The contract pack will arrive from your Sellers Solicitor which we will review, approve and raise any necessary enquiries. We should also then be in a position to request the required searches (e.g. local authority search, coal mining, drainage, environmental).
4. We’ll report to you with the information forms completed by the Seller and also the search results as these are received.
5. If you are purchasing with the assistance of a mortgage, once we receive our copy of the offer we will check for any special conditions to be complied with. Your lender will instruct a surveyor to carry out a Valuation Report. This is not a full survey and if you do require a more in depth survey we would recommend you either speak to your Lender or a qualified surveyor about instructing a Homebuyers Survey.
6. Once we have received satisfactory replies to all enquiries, search results and mortgage conditions are satisfied (if applicable) we will then report to you with the documents for you to sign. We will also let you have our Completion Statement which sets out the full finances of your purchase and will detail any balance required from you
7. When you have returned your signed documents, we should be in a position to discuss possible completion dates with you and your Sellers Solicitor. Once a date has been agreed, we will advise you when to transfer your funds to us and, if applicable, we will apply for any additional finances such as your mortgage advance, Help to Buy ISA Bonus.
8. Once all parties in the chain are ready, and release of mortgage funds are confirmed, if applicable, we will exchange contracts to make your completion date legally binding. This can range from weeks, days or even simultaneously with completion in some cases.
9. On the day of completion, funds will be transferred to your Sellers Solicitor and once received at their end they will authorise keys to be release to you either via the estate agent or directly with the seller.
10. We will then attend to post completion matters such as submitting the SDLT Return and application to the Land Registry to register your purchase. A copy of the new title document and any other deeds will forwarded to you once the Land Registry have completed our application.