How to Get the Best Results from Your Conveyancing Solicitor

Let your solicitor do the worrying on the day! 

Conveyancing is probably the most commonly used legal service and many Bury St Edmunds residents own or will own a home at some time. The vast majority of those people will buy or sell at least one house.

Whether you are buying or selling a property, or both, a good solicitor can help to make the process simpler and less stressful all round. 

Because while the basics of property sale and purchase are quite simple most people's lives and circumstances aren't. In years of practise, most solicitors will only have a handful of cases they could say were absolutely the same.

You may be familiar with the basics of conveyance - handling the sale and purchase of a property, seeing that funds are in the right place at the right time and tying up all the legal loose ends with Land Registry and so on - so you know that even making sure your sale and purchase happen at the same time is often crucial, and your solicitor will see that necessary funds are transferred electronically (by BACS) at a pre-agreed moment.

All this usually happens while you're worrying about getting to your new home and remembering where you packed the kettle. You have enough to deal with so let your solicitor worry about the money on the day!

What you need to do

To get the best from your solicitor you will be asked to supply information about your new and old home, your mortgage arrangements, how you will fund the deposit and so on, as well as your preferred timetable.

You must tell your solicitor about any changes, like a sale falling through, difficulties with funding, problems getting the day off work, and anything else that affects your ability to complete on the day.

Otherwise, your solicitor should guide you through the process. He or she isn't allowed to give you financial advice but will probably recommend you use an independant advisor before you sign up for a mortgage or other kind of loan.

The end result 

Buying your new home may well take longer than you hoped. When that happens, just remember the end result: