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Source of funds, gifted deposits and the checks nobody warns you about
Anti-money-laundering rules oblige your conveyancer to trace where the money came from, and unprepared buyers lose weeks to it.
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Conveyancing, searches, title and the documents that hold a purchase up.
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Searches: what each one is actually looking for
Searches are not a formality your conveyancer performs. Each one answers a specific question that could change what the property is…
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Listed buildings and conservation areas: buying inside a rulebook
Protection applies to the building, not to the owner. What you may do is decided by rules that came with the property and outlast…
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Extending a lease, and why the clock matters
A lease is a wasting asset and the rate of decline is not steady. There are points at which waiting becomes expensive.
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Buying the freehold with your neighbours
Leaseholders acting together can sometimes buy the freehold of their building. It is a legal project, a negotiation and a long-term…
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Property information forms and the cost of a careless answer
The forms a seller completes become part of the record a buyer relies on. An inaccurate answer can have consequences long after…
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Signing for someone else: attorneys, executors and trustees
Property is often sold or bought by someone acting for another person. The authority to do it has to exist, be valid, and be…
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Transferring a property between family members
A transfer within a family is still a property transaction. Skipping the professional steps is where the expensive problems begin.
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When a purchase collapses: what you can recover
Most of the money spent on a failed transaction is gone. Knowing which parts survive, and which can be avoided, is worth doing…