Residential Property & Conveyancing Solicitors

A conveyancing solicitor deals with the legal aspects of your property transaction but what this actually involves will depend upon whether you are buying or selling property, raising finance to be secured against a property or transferring property. Generally, conveyancers check the legal title to the property, put in hand searches, provide legal advice to clients and mortgage lenders and complete property transactions.

Regardless of whether you are buying a house with a partner or alone, it’s still one of the most expensive, stressful, emotive, daunting and confusing processes. We hope this conveyancing guide will make it just a little bit clearer.

Our regulators require us to provide pricing information on our website for some of the areas of work that we undertake, we therefore set out pricing for these areas, as well as those areas of work that we undertake on a fixed fee basis here. For a quotation on fees on the other areas of work we cover, you will need to contact the teams directly to discuss your circumstances.

In theory, it is possible to carry out your own conveyancing unless mortgage finance is involved. However, other parties in the chain will be unlikely to be willing to proceed given that individuals cannot provide the same undertakings as solicitors. It is therefore always recommended that you instruct a legal professional to assist you with the transaction and ensure that all necessary legal requirements have been met.

In all transactions, your conveyancer will need evidence of who you are and so you will need to have photographic and address ID to hand. If you are selling a property your conveyancer will also require copy documentation relating to the property such as planning permission or building control documentation, warranties or guarantees for works done, for example, new window or boiler installations and any other supporting documents. In the event of a purchase, your conveyancer is likely to require proof of your funds as well as evidence of the source of those funds in order to comply with their professional regulations.

• ‘Residential Conveyancing Firm of the Year’ – 2015 National Property Forum Awards*
• 'High Commended in Client Care' - Modern Law Conveyancing Awards
• 'Team of the Year 2016' - LawNet
• 'Innovation of the Year award 2019' - Modern Law Conveyancing Awards
• *50 or fewer employees category

Home buyers generally arrange to have a property survey done after their offer to buy the property has been accepted by the seller.

The short answer to that is yes, it is. When land changes hands between parties, and again, we talk about a major interest in land, if freehold or long leasehold, that would have to be registered at the land registry and depending upon the nature of the land, there may well be large sums of money involved. Now, it may be a small parcel of land, it could be a strip of land, it could be a part of somebody's garden where there isn't a great deal of value. But of course, it could be a large area, acres of property development land, which is subject to planning permission, which would be very valuable indeed. So, the short answer is yes, land is property.

The government has created the Help to Buy ISA scheme to help hardworking people save towards their first home. First time buyers can save up to £200 a month towards their first home with a Help to Buy ISA and the government will boost their savings by 25%. That's £50 government bonus for every £200 saved up to a maximum government bonus of £3,000. The bonus is available for home purchases up to £450,000 in London, and up to £250,000 outside London.