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Guiding you through house sales and purchases.
Buying or selling a property is one of the biggest financial decisions you will make and often one of the most stressful. Our specialist conveyancing solicitors in Salisbury and Chippenham are here to make the process as smooth and straightforward as possible.
As experienced conveyancing experts, we manage every stage of your house sale or purchase, ensuring you stay informed and supported throughout. We explain each step clearly, deal with any legal or technical challenges quickly, and keep your transaction moving without unnecessary delays.
Comprehensive Conveyancing Support
With meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to completing transactions efficiently, we ensure your property sale or purchase progresses smoothly from start to finish. Whether you’re a first-time buyer, a seasoned investor, or moving home, our conveyancing team provides reliable, results-driven guidance across all areas of residential property law.
We offer expert support with:
- House and flat sales and purchases
- Boundary issues
- Buy to let purchases
- Equity release mortgages
- Freehold purchase
- Lease extensions
- Transfers of equity
You instruct us when your offer is accepted and we send you a Client Care Pack to complete and return. You pay to us £500 to enable us to instruct searches.
You apply for a mortgage and/or a survey.
We obtain and check the contract pack from the seller’s lawyer.
Mortgage offer received by us. We will then send you your mortgage report
and check the lender’s requirements.
We make the appropriate searches.
We raise enquiries with the seller’s lawyer.
We check the seller’s replies to enquiries and searches, and deal with any legal requirements in your mortgage offer and survey.
We report to you on the title and searches. We may need to refer back to the seller’s lawyer the lender to make sure you are happy to proceed.
We request the deposit from you and your buildings insurance policy details in readiness for exchange.
We request the deposit from you.
Contracts are exchanged and completion date is fixed.
We request mortgage advance for completion.
We calculate any balance due from you.
Mortgage money received from lender.
Balance received from you.
Completion.
Moving date when keys are handed over.
On your behalf we pay the Stamp Duty Land Tax/LTT to the HMRC/Welsh Revenue Authority and register you as new owners of the property at the Land Registry.
The Purchase Process is subject to a number of third party actions, but the average transaction length is 8-12 weeks to get to completion. However, the registration of the transfer at the Land Registry may take many months due to their backlogs.
You instruct us either when you put the property on the market or then you accept an offer.
We send you our Client Care Pack, a standard property questionnaire and fittings and contents form to complete and return. You pay us £500 to enable us to get title documents and prepare the contract.
On receipt of your forms we will check all title details and the relevant documents. We will also request repayment figures from your mortgage lender, if applicable.
We will send a contract pack to the buyer’s lawyer. Once agreed with the buyer’s lawyer, a contract and transfer will be sent to you to sign and return to us.
We will deal with enquiries received from your buyer’s lawyer and liaise with you as appropriate.
Your buyer will arrange their finance and their lawyer will undertake searches.
Once your buyer is ready they will contact us with a suggested completion date which we discuss with you.
Contracts are exchanged and completion date is fixed.
We request repayment figures on any mortgages and ensure we have your estate agent’s bill and any other payments to be made from the proceeds of the sale.
We calculate the net sale proceeds payable to you.
Completion.
Moving date when keys are handed over.
From the proceeds of sale, we redeem all mortgages, pay your estate agent and account to you for the balance.
The Sale Process is subject to a number of third party actions, but the average transaction length is 8-12 weeks.
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