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Do home buyers and sellers need separate conveyancing solicitors?
18 Dec, 2015/ by Homeward Legal /Sale & Purchase
The current professional rules for Solicitors do not make separate representation compulsory. However, they do place substantial restrictions.
Read moreGovernment plans to privatise the Land Registry may be back on
17 Dec, 2015/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Remortgage, Sale & Purchase, Seller, Transfer of Equity
The previous coalition government had produced plans to privatise the Registry but these were dropped last year after opposition from many quarters.
Read moreAre Land Registry privatisation plans to be scrapped?
22 Nov, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, Sale & Purchase
Plans to privatise the Land Registry have been dropped according to a report in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Read moreIs buying a property on a short lease a good idea?
19 Oct, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Sale & Purchase
Most buyers will have great difficulty in purchasing a flat with a short lease - or indeed any flat where the lease has fewer than 70 years to run.
Read moreShould clients worry about their solicitor's indemnity insurance cover?
25 Jul, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Remortgage, Sale & Purchase, Seller, Transfer of Equity
If you are employing a solicitor to carry out your conveyancing you will probably take it for granted that your solicitor has professional indemnity i...
Read moreJudge decides squatters can still claim possessory title to houses
30 Jun, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Sale & Purchase, Seller
The High Court has recently had to consider a case which quite frankly needed never to have been brought.
Read moreChancel repair liability‚ an unholy mess
10 May, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, Sale & Purchase
Some houses stand on land that is still subject to a perpetual liability to contribute towards the cost of repairs to the chancel of the parish church...
Read moreWill mortgage stress-testing cause stress to home buyers?
29 Apr, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Sale & Purchase
The reason is that new rules affecting mortgage applications have now come into force.
Read moreWe are now members of the conveyancing exchange
11 Apr, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Remortgage, Sale & Purchase, Seller, Transfer of Equity
We are absolutely delighted to be working with The Conveyancing Exchange as it validates our "agent is a client too" approach to conveyancing.
Read moreShould I send surveys to my solicitor?
10 Apr, 2014/ by Homeward Legal /Buyer, First Time Buyer, Sale & Purchase
Few solicitors actually promote surveys however which is curious as the format of RICS surveys includes a section that can be invaluable to solicitors...
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