Property Purchase

Buying your first home means running a legal process you have never seen before, with your largest-ever sum of money moving through it. The…

Whether a remortgage needs a solicitor at all depends on one fact: are you switching lender? Stay with your current lender on a product…

A gifted deposit — family money given, not lent, towards a property purchase — now sits behind a majority of first purchases. Lenders take…

Around 4.8 million properties in England are leasehold — roughly one home in five — and buying one is not like buying a freehold.…

Selling a leasehold flat is a documents game: the sale moves at the speed of the management pack, prices off the unexpired term, and…

When the hammer falls at a property auction, you have exchanged contracts — no survey condition, no cooling-off, no renegotiation. Caveat emptor still governs…

“Buying a freehold” means two different purchases, and the right guide depends on which one you are making. Buying a freehold property is ordinary…

Vacant possession is the seller’s promise that on completion day the property will be empty — of people, of belongings, and of anyone else’s…

New build conveyancing runs on the developer’s paperwork and the developer’s clock: a reservation fee, a 28-day exchange deadline, a contract drafted for the…

Moving home means running a sale and a purchase at the same time, usually inside a chain of other people doing the same thing…