by Ian | May 11, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Ramblers Welcome? It’s Day One in your new home. Suddenly you spy a party of ramblers hiking across your garden. Turns out they have a perfect legal right to cross your land (land is legally referred to as ‘property’). So how can you tell if there’s a hidden right...
by Ian | May 11, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Covid-19 and House Prices What determines house prices? The media routinely blame estate agents for inflating the property market. But dogmatic vendors often have over-optimistic ideas about what their home is worth. And woe betide any estate agent who dares...
by Ian | Apr 17, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Exchange of Contracts – Insuring Yourself Against Things Going Wrong It seems rather unfair that, even though you won’t actually be living in the home you’re buying until you move in on the day of completion, as the buyer you are legally...
by Ian | Mar 23, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Exchange of Contracts – checklist Under the crazy English homebuying system, until you reach Exchange of Contracts, both buyers and sellers are entitled to change their minds and pull out for any reason. This can happen after many months of apparent...
by Ian | Mar 19, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Getting quotes for removals – before you exchange contracts Unless you’re seriously considering doing all the heavy lifting yourself, now’s the time to obtain quotes for removals. In most cases this needs to be done before exchange, because by leaving it...
by Ian | Mar 10, 2020 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Legal work, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
Preparing for Exchange of Contracts – Who is responsible for insuring the property? It seems to have taken forever – but at last you are almost at Exchange of Contracts – the stage when your purchase is safe. Your coneyancer-solicitor should...
