Instructing your conveyancing solicitor

After your offer is accepted by the seller, you will need to instruct a conveyancing solicitor to handle the conveyancing process for buying property on your behalf.

If you are interested in our conveyancing services, you simply get in touch with us through the contact form or by phone, and we will provide you with an instant no-obligation quote for our property purchase services and an outline of what we will be supporting you with.

If you are happy with our offer we will then ask you to provide us with details about yourself and the property you are purchasing to get started.

If you have any questions at this stage about buying your property our conveyancers will happily go through them with you, and make sure you fully understand the buying and conveyancing process with AWH.

We understand buying a home can be confusing, regardless of how many times you may have purchased property. We know that this is why for most people buying property can be very stressful, so we do what we can to avoid any unclarity and unnecessary stress from the start.

Getting a mortgage in place

Most buyers will depend on a mortgage to purchase property. A mortgage advisor can advise you on what type of mortgage is best for you, find you the best current offer and apply for your mortgage on your behalf. Some mortgage advisors offer their advice free of charge and some will charge you with a one-off fee.

Our conveyancing solicitors cannot offer advice on mortgages or help you select the offer that is right for you, however, once your mortgage offer is in place we can talk you through the conditions of your mortgage.

Searches and checks when buying a property

Once you have instructed us and your mortgage is in place we will progress with the purchase and contact the seller’s solicitor to go through the next stage of the buying process.

We will exchange the relevant information with the seller’s solicitor and check through all the contracts thoroughly whilst simultaneously carrying out the relevant searches for your property. These checks and searches need to be carried out to ensure that you won’t be facing any surprises about the property or location of its build in the future.

Searches will highlight matters such as flood risks, planning permissions granted in the near vicinity and other matters which could affect the value of your property.

This stage can take some time as multiple third parties are involved, but we will always make sure you are fully aware of what is happening and give you an estimation of how long things will take.

The final steps of buying a property

Once we have gone through all the results from the searches and we have carried out all relevant checks with the seller’s solicitor we will firstly go through all our findings with you.

If you are happy to proceed with the purchase of the property then it’s time to set a date for the exchange of contracts and pay your deposit. On the date of exchange we will exchange contracts with the seller’s solicitors on your behalf, legally binding you into purchasing the property.

After contracts have been exchanged, we transfer the deposit to the seller’s solicitor and get the title deeds transferred. Once the completion funds are received by the seller’s solicitor, the sale is completed and the seller drops off the keys to the estate agent.