Tag Archives: buying a house

Essential steps in property buying – completion and post-completion

By Tim Bishop | Published: October 5, 2011

To many people, conveyancing this mysterious mystery – what exactly do your property solicitors do when it comes to completing your house purchase or sale – Responsibilities of vendor’s conveyancing solicitor · Checks that completion monies have been received from the buyer · Ensures the executed transfer and all necessary title documents are passed to [...]

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Which Conveyancing Solicitor?

By Tim Bishop | Published: June 4, 2011

You don’t have to use the Conveyancing Solicitor your estate agent recommends. However, certain “corporate” estate agents can make you feel like there is no other option. Moving house can take up a huge amount of your time and be highly stressful. A good relationship between your estate agent and your Conveyancing Solicitor can remove [...]

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More Law Firms being abandoned

By Tim Bishop | Published: May 7, 2011

According to the latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority [the SRA is the regulator for the legal profession ] more and more solicitors practices are actually being abandoned – with the SRA receiving reports of 94 law firms being abandoned in the three-month period ending March 31.  This may come as a huge surprise [...]

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Buying a property together

By Tim Bishop | Published: March 6, 2011

With house prices still at a relatively high-level, and with banks sometimes reluctant to lend, and requiring a larger deposit when they do, the easiest way to buy property is often to do so with a partner – whether you’re married, in a civil partnership, want to live together or are simply friends. However buying property [...]

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