Conveyancing is the legal process involved when you buy and sell a property.

Yet, a bit like describing an elephant to someone who has never seen one before, it is easier once you have actually seen or met one for yourself.

When you decide to sell or buy a property and take those first few faltering steps on the Conveyancing Process, it is both daunting and potentially stressful.

This series of blog posts entitled “Conveyancing Unplugged” will attempt to demystify the Conveyancing process and arm you with sufficient knowledge and confidence to guide you through the Conveyancing maze.

Conveyancing Unplugged will allow you to make critical and informed decisions at the right time.

What Conveyancing Unplugged will give you is all the information you need to make informed decisions on not only choosing the right solicitors for you, but also what factors to take into account when appointing your Estate Agent, Surveyor Mortgage Company or Broker

Conveyancing Unplugged will give you all of the experience of my 27 years as a Conveyancing Solicitor; provide you with helpful hints and point out other resources for you to explore.

What you will end up with your own personal A-Z Roadmap of the Conveyancing Process.

What you will learn over the coming weeks will be:

1.  What exactly is Conveyancing?

2.  When and Why you need a Conveyancing Solicitor

3.  How to Choose a Conveyancing Solicitor: What Questions to Ask

4.  First Things First: Top Tips before you put your property on the market for sale

5.  How to choose the best Estate Agent for you

6.  Conveyancing Jargon translated in to plain English

7.  Freehold, Leasehold and Commonhold- What you need to know

8.  Will all Contracts for Sale be the same?

9.  What are the Conveyancing stages in a typical sale

10.  What are the Conveyancing stages in a typical purchase

11.  What are the drawbacks in buying a leasehold property

12.  Registered and Unregistered land explained

13.  Why you should always instruct a surveyor when you buy: some Cautionary Tales

14.  Searches; What types are there and what they will reveal

15.  A Valuation is the same as a Survey; Right?

16.  What should you look out for when buying a flat

17.  Why is the Sellers Property Information Form so important

18.  Why you still need an Energy Performance Certificate, even though HIPs have been suspended

19.  Conveyancing Fees: Where does all the money go

20.  Why you should look for a Conveyancing Quotation and not simply a Conveyancing Estimate

21.  What exactly is included in a Conveyancing quotation

22.  Do we buy as Joint Tenants or as Tenant in Common: The differences explained

23.  Radon Gas: Should You Be Bothered?

24.  Top Tips for a First Time Buyer

25.  Does the term “Best Mortgage” really exist

26.  How to avoid “squeaky bum” time at an Auction

27.  Top Websites to visit before you buy

28.  Buying a Listed or Older Building: special considerations

29.  A Conveyancing timetable for action: The Countdown

30.  Things to remember on completion day

31.  How long will it all take and what causes most delays

32.  How to avoid common mistakes when moving home

33.  Setting up home with Tom, Dick or Harriet: The legalimplications

34.  What Planning laws will let you do and not do to your property

35.  How safe is your deposit

36.  The Pros and Cons of Buying “Off Plan”

37.  All Conveyancers are the same. Aren’t they?

38.   Why is your Estate Agent insisting you use their Conveyancing Services? Don’t let your Estate Agent bully you

39.  How to work together with your Conveyancing Solicitor and Estate Agent

40.  21 Things you never knew about Chancel Repair Liability

41.  Gazumping: Can it be avoided?

42.  Stamp Duty: When and How Much?

43.  15 Hot Tips for a Happy House Move

Thanks for reading through what you can expect from “Conveyancing Unplugged”. The list may well be exhausting, but is not exhaustive.

Further posts will be added approximately twice weekly, and feel free to ask for your own questions to be discussed.

Good luck and may your home move go as smoothly as possible.

Until next time…

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