What is an Environmental Search? An environmental search looks at the risk of flood to your property. As part of the pre contract ‘investigation of title’, the buyer’s solicitor will generally undertake a number of searches. This will include an environmental search. Here we look at what an environmental search [...]
What is a Water & Drainage Search? Water and drainage search establishes water to and from your property. A water and drainage search is an essential part of the conveyancing searches that your solicitor will undertake for you when you are buying a property. This will normally done alongside a [...]
Do I have to have pre-contract enquiries when buying a house? Can I ask my solicitor to not do conveyancing enquiries (aka pre-contract enquiries)? What are conveyancing enquiries? Conveyancing enquiries (also know as pre-contract enquiries) are the stage during your conveyance when the buyer’s solicitor will raise a list of [...]
Top Ten Conveyancing Enquiries (Pre-Contract Enquiries) Conveyancing enquiries (also called pre-contract enquiries) can be a frustrating time for buyers. Conveyancing enquiries (also called ‘pre-contract enquiries’, or sometimes even just ‘enquiries’) is the process before exchange of contracts when the buyer’s solicitor formally raises queries with the seller’s solicitor. The reason [...]
What are Conveyancing Enquiries? Conveyancing enquiries are raised by the buyer’s solicitor before exchange of contracts. Conveyancing enquiries (otherwise known as pre contract enquiries) are the questions that are formally raised by the solicitor acting for the buyer in a property transaction or conveyance. When are pre-contract enquiries raised? Pre-contract [...]
Joint Tenancy or Tenancy in Common? Joint tenants and tenants in common are the two forms of UK joint ownership of land. There are two types of joint ownership of property and land in the UK – joint tenants and tenants in common. When buying a house or property or [...]
What is a Tenancy in Common? A tenancy in common is a form of joint ownership of property and land in the UK. There are two types of joint ownership of houses and land in the UK. Those two types of joint of ownership are called joint tenants and tenants [...]
What is a Joint Tenancy? A joint tenancy is where joint owners hold the whole of a property in the UK in equal shares. There are two types of joint ownership of property and land in the UK – a joint tenancy, and a tenancy in common. What is [...]
What is a Property Survey? A property survey examines the structure and condition of a building, and is likely to suggest work or repairs that are needed. It is about the 'bricks and mortar', NOT the legal status of a property. What sort of property survey do I need is [...]
What is an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)? Energy performance certificates represent the remnants of the much publicised (and arguably disastrous) home information packs (HIPs). Energy performance certificates represent the remnants of the much publicised (and arguably disastrous) home information packs (HIPs). Here, we explain what they are, and what they [...]
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