by Ian | Jan 20, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Will your survey alert you to occupancy restrictions? Hidden away in the Deeds (legal title documents) there can be all sorts of nasty restrictions, some of which can dramatically reduce the value of a property. One such example is where residential...
by Ian | Dec 19, 2019 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Delays in answering preliminary enquiries One of the first jobs for the buyer’s solicitor is to submit a long list of questions to the seller’s solicitor. These are standard questions printed on a form and include availability of mains services;...
by Ian | Dec 13, 2019 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Problems with contracts and delays with searches Minor disagreements over the precise details in draft contracts have an unfortunate tendency to escalate into full-blown disputes. Draft contracts are normally based on standard templates with standard...
by Ian | Dec 4, 2019 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Making An Offer, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
My Mortgage Lender Wants Me To Take Out Life Insurance – Should I Be Worried? Lenders sometimes insist on you taking out life insurance cover as a condition of the mortgage. This may apply in cases where applicants are of a certain age or have an...
by Ian | Dec 4, 2019 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Making An Offer, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Unregistered Title and Delays Getting Title Deeds There are still some rare cases where the title, or ownership, of a property is still ‘unregistered’. This might be the case for example where the house in question has been in the same family for donkeys’...
by Ian | Nov 20, 2019 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Making An Offer, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Legal Problems – Delays Whether you’re buying or selling property, the process always seems to be afflicted by inexplicably long delays. In earlier blogs we stressed the importance of selecting the right solicitor/conveyancer. This is because a...
