A conveyancer deals with the legal process of buying, selling or remortgaging a property.
On a purchase, a conveyancer would typically:
- Take your instructions and give you initial advice
- Receive and advise on contract documents
- Carry out searches
- Make any necessary enquiries of seller’s solicitor
- Report on the title of the property to you (and your lender if you are obtaining a mortgage)
- Report to you on the mortgage offer
- Send final contract to you for signature
- Draft the Transfer Deed
- Obtain pre-completion searches
- Exchange contracts and notify you that this has happened
- Arrange for all monies needed to be received from lender and you
- Complete purchase
- Deal with payment of Stamp Duty/Land Tax
- Deal with application for registration at Land Registry
On a sale, a conveyancer would typically:
- Take your instructions and give you initial advice
- Prepare the contracts for sale
- Issue the contracts
- Deal with additional and standard enquiries raised by the buyer’s solicitors
- Liaise between you and the buyer’s solicitors on any enquiries
- Complete the sale
- Deal with post completion matters
If the property being sold is leasehold or freehold with a management company, the following stages may also apply:
- Sending the Leasehold or Management Information Pack to the Buyer’s solicitor
- Liaising with the Landlord and / or Management company
- Dealing with additional enquiries raised by the Buyer’s solicitor in respect of the Leasehold or Management Information Pack.
On a remortgage, a conveyancer would typically:
- Take your instructions and give you initial advice
- Review the title to the Property
- Review and deal with requirements of your Lender
- Report on the terms of the mortgage offer to you
- Report on the title of the Property to the Lender
- Register the Lender’s charge at the Land Registry
- Deal with post completion matters