UK CONVEYANCING SOLICITORS NATIONWIDE

UK conveyancing solicitors are lawyers who specialise in the legal requirements of transferring the ownership of land and buildings. Many of these lawyers also deal with rental agreements for domestic property and a further speciality concerns commercial leases and the transfer of interests in commercial property. This area of law can be extremely complex and lawyers who deal with property transactions must be trained specialists due to the value of the transactions they deal with which frequently run into millions of pounds.

The basic legal work necessary to transfer the ownership of land and property requires UK conveyancing solicitors to ensure that the person selling the property actually owns that which is being sold and has the right to do so. A buyer will expect to obtain �good title� which means that once the property has been transferred there should be no nasty surprises that haven�t been revealed at an earlier stage.

It is the buyers lawyer who is responsible for making all necessary enquiries to ensure that the buyer is not cheated and actually receives what he thought that he had paid for, without any unexpected restrictions on the use of the land or any onerous responsibilities imposed on the owner of the land that had not been outlined in advance of the deal being done. Clearly the majority of responsibility in any property transaction usually falls on the lawyer acting for the purchaser of land and property and for this reason legal costs in a purchase usually exceed those of a sale.

The sellers solicitor or more usually his client provides as much information about the property as the buyer requires, in the form of providing answers to questions on a standard form, the accuracy of which the seller is personally responsible for, and in addition to this source of information the buyers solicitor makes independent enquiries, referred to as �searches� from publicly available sources of information in order to check the current and past status of the property and any future plans that may apply to the property or the area in which the property is situated.

In addition the buyers lawyer will check the �deeds� of the property or more usually nowadays will check the information held at the land registry. Electronic information about the ownership of land and property has now mainly replaced the information that used to be contained in paper deeds. The information contained in the deeds or on the land registry files will usually confirm ownership of the property and will outline any responsibilities or restrictions imposed on the property known as �covenants�.

Once the conveyancing solicitors have carried out all of the necessary checks the transfer of ownership can proceed. Our lawyers are all specialists in the law of land and property and are able to give extremely competitive quotations for buying or selling, re-mortgages or transfer of equity. If you would like to speak to an expert just call our helpline or complete and send the contact form and a specialist will give free information and advice with no further obligation.