Residential Conveyancing – Selling

We have been helping people sell their home for many years and appreciate how stressful it can be. We have a thorough process in place to ensure your move goes smoothly each step of the way. If you’re not sure what’s involved with selling a house or property, please have a read of the information below or call our friendly team.

Once you have agreed with all relevant parties in connection with the sale of your property, please inform us as soon as possible, so we can start the legal process.

On Your Sale

1. We will initially need to prepare a "contract documentation pack" about your property to provide to the buyers solicitors. It will take us a little while to get hold of all of the information required in this process. However, the documentation pack will consist of:
   • the latest official copy of your Title Deeds
   • a Contract
   • a Sellers Property Information Form (and if it is leasehold an Additional Property Information Form)
   • and a Fixtures, Fittings and Contents Questionnaire
2. The last two items above, Sellers Property Information Form, and Fixtures, Fittings and Contents Questionnaire, are required to be completed as fully as possible by you, the seller. They contain questions about the property that you are selling and if you are not sure about any of the questions therein or require assistance in completing them, then you should contact us immediately. In any event these forms should be returned to us as soon as possible.
3. If you have an existing mortgage on your property, we will require your initial instructions in order to obtain the Title deeds which will be held by your bank or building society to draw up the contractual documentation; If you do not have a mortgage then you should know where the deeds are kept. Once we have the title deeds to hand and we have also received your buyers' details from their solicitors, we then proceed to prepare the Contract. This is an agreement setting out the main terms and special conditions of what you are agreeing and includes details such as your names, the buyers' names, description of the property and price that you have agreed to sell at.
4. The buyers solicitors then review the "contract documentation pack" that is sent to them and raise standard additional enquiries on your property depending on the results received on their local and other searches. We will forward a copy of these enquiries in order to obtain your response and subsequently forward these to your purchasers solicitors, on your behalf. They will also send us a draft Transfer Deed for approval.
5. Once the buyers solicitors have approved the contract and we have approved the Transfer Deed, we will then contact you to come in and sign all documentation in readiness. We will notify you of any outstanding mortgages and will provide you with a Completion Statement, We will also try to agree a Completion Date (or the 'moving date'). Thereafter if everything meets with your requirements, we will then formally proceed to exchange contracts (this means swapping the contract signed by the purchasers for the one signed by the sellers - together with a deposit provided by the purchasers). Once contracts are exchanged, this makes the transaction legal and binding and neither party can withdraw without incurring huge costs.
6. On the day of completion the purchasers solicitors will send us the balance of purchase monies in return for which we will hand over the title deeds to the property together with an undertaking to redeem the sellers mortgages (if any). Meanwhile, we will utilise the money to redeem any outstanding mortgages the sellers have on the property and will also settle the Estate Agent's account and our own fees. If there is any net proceeds of sale left over, then this will be forwarded to you on the day of completion, unless you are using this money on an onward purchase. Once we receive confirmation from your mortgage lender acknowledging payment received, we will forward the notification to your purchasers solicitors in order to enable them to proceed with their clients registration of title.