Conveyancing
MAKING YOUR PROPERTY MOVE SIMPLE.
Whether you are buying, selling or remortgaging, our conveyancing team provides clear advice and dependable support to keep your transaction progressing smoothly from instruction to completion.
OUR CONVEYANCING SERVICES
Purchasing a new home is one of the biggest and most exciting milestones in your life, but it also involves complex legal steps. Our expert conveyancing solicitors handle every detail of your purchase, from conducting thorough property searches to reviewing contracts and title deeds. We liaise closely with mortgage lenders, estate agents, and sellers to ensure a seamless transaction without unexpected delays. Our team protects your financial interests, ensuring the property is legally sound and free from hidden liabilities or restrictions. Experience a stress-free property buying journey with our dedicated professional guidance from start to finish. Fill the form or Contact Us today to start your property purchase with confidence.
Selling your property efficiently and securely requires precise legal documentation and proactive communication with all participating parties. Our experienced conveyancing team drafts accurate contract packs, answers buyer enquiries promptly, and resolves title issues swiftly. We manage the exchange of contracts and the secure transfer of funds so you can complete your sale smoothly. Minimizing transaction friction helps you move on to your next chapter without unnecessary stress or financial worry. Trust our legal experts to handle your property sale with utmost precision and care. Fill the form or Contact Us to list and sell your property successfully.
Stepping onto the property ladder for the very first time can feel overwhelming, but our specialist team makes the process crystal clear. We guide first-time buyers through every single stage of buying a home, explaining legal jargon and mortgage conditions in simple terms. From utilizing lifetime ISAs and Help to Buy schemes to final completion, we stand by your side. We ensure your purchase is legally secure so you can step into your first home with total peace of mind. Make your dream of homeownership a reality with our expert support. Fill the form or Contact Us to begin your first-time buyer journey today.
Remortgaging your property is a smart financial strategy to secure better interest rates, free up equity, or consolidate debts. Our efficient conveyancing solicitors handle remortgage applications rapidly to ensure seamless transition between lenders. We review your existing title deeds, handle property valuations, and manage the redemption of your current mortgage without hassle. Avoid unnecessary delays and secure your ideal financial deal right on time. Let our professionals handle the legal paperwork while you enjoy the financial benefits. Fill the form or Contact Us to discuss your remortgage options with our experts.
Owning a leasehold property with a diminishing lease can significantly impact its market value and saleability. Our specialist property lawyers help you navigate the complex statutory or informal lease extension processes with your landlord. We calculate lease values accurately, serve formal notices, and negotiate favorable terms to protect your property investment. Extending your lease secures your home’s long-term value and gives you greater security for the future. Take proactive control of your leasehold property rights today. Fill the form or Contact Us to initiate your lease extension process.
Buying a new build property involves unique legal considerations, such as developer deadlines, warranty schemes, and complex planning conditions. Our conveyancing professionals specialize in handling new build purchases with meticulous attention to detail and efficiency. We review developer contracts carefully to protect you from unexpected clauses or delayed completion penalties. Secure your brand-new dream home with complete legal confidence and professional oversight. Ensure your investment is fully protected from the very ground up. Fill the form or Contact Us to get expert legal assistance for your new build purchase.
Investing in buy-to-let properties is a lucrative venture, but it requires careful navigation of specialized property laws and landlord regulations. Our legal team assists property investors in acquiring, financing, and managing profitable rental portfolios smoothly. We conduct thorough legal checks, handle commercial or residential tenancy alignment, and ensure full compliance with regulatory standards. Maximize your rental yields while minimizing legal risks with our specialized property investment services. Build a robust and secure property portfolio for your financial future. Fill the form or Contact Us to consult with our buy-to-let conveyancing experts.
Entering into a commercial lease is a critical step for your business operations, requiring precise negotiation of terms, repair obligations, and rent reviews. Our commercial property solicitors protect your business interests by drafting and reviewing robust lease agreements. We help you understand landlord covenants, break clauses, and security of tenure to safeguard your commercial future. Avoid costly legal pitfalls and secure premises that support your business growth and stability. Empower your enterprise with expert commercial lease legal guidance. Fill the form or Contact Us to speak with our commercial property specialists today.
Conveyancing
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Buying or selling property is one of the biggest financial decisions you are likely to make. The legal process can be complex, time sensitive and stressful, particularly when you are dealing with a chain, a mortgage, leasehold restrictions or unexpected problems with the title. At MYM Law we make the process clearer and more manageable. Our conveyancing team provides practical legal advice, keeps matters moving and ensures that you understand what is happening at every important stage. Whether you are buying your first home, selling a property, investing in buy to let, remortgaging or transferring ownership, we will work with you to protect your interests and help you reach completion with confidence.
From your first instruction to registration after completion, we provide clear advice, proactive communication and careful attention to detail.
Conveyancing services
Conveyancing services
We assist with a broad range of residential and, where applicable, commercial property transactions.
01. Residential conveyancing
Our services include:
- Freehold property sales and purchases.
- Leasehold property sales and purchases.
- First time buyer transactions.
- Remortgages and refinancing.
- Transfers of equity between family members, spouses or civil partners.
- Declarations of trust relating to property ownership.
- New build purchases.
- Shared ownership transactions.
- Right to Buy and Right to Acquire matters.
- Buy to let and investment property transactions.
- Auction purchases.
- Property affected by restrictive covenants, easements or title restrictions.
- Unregistered land and missing title documents.
- Property owned by trusts, estates or companies.
- Transactions involving powers of attorney.
02. Commercial and investment property
Subject to the scope of our services, we can also assist with:
- Commercial property acquisitions and disposals.
- Commercial leases and lease assignments.
- Transfers of part.
- Development land transactions.
- Options, conditional contracts and overage arrangements.
- Easements, rights of way and access arrangements.
- Commercial mortgages and refinancing.
- Property transactions connected with the sale or purchase of a business.
If your matter involves development, agricultural land, a complex lease, a company, a trust or an overseas element, early legal advice can help identify risks before you become contractually committed
Why clients choose MYM Law
Why clients choose MYM Law
A property transaction is not simply an exchange of documents. It involves your home, your investment, your finances and often your future plans.
We focus on the things that matter most to clients:
1. Clear, understandable advice
Property documents can contain technical language and important restrictions. We explain the legal position in plain English and tell you what an issue means in practical terms.
2. A proactive approach
We do not wait for problems to become urgent. We identify missing information, raise appropriate enquiries and liaise with the relevant parties to help keep your transaction progressing.
3. Personal attention
Every transaction is different. We take the time to understand your circumstances, priorities and proposed timescale so that our advice is relevant to you.
4. Transparent communication
We keep you informed about progress, outstanding matters, anticipated costs and any decisions that require your attention.
5. Careful risk management
We review the title, searches, contract and supporting documents carefully. Where a potential problem arises, we explain the available options so that you can make an informed decision.
6. Support from start to finish
We coordinate with estate agents, lenders, brokers, managing agents, freeholders and the other side’s legal representatives. We remain involved through exchange, completion and post-completion registration.
HOW WE CAN ASSIST
Depending on the transaction, we can:
- Review the legal title to the property.
- Prepare or review the sale contract.
- Check whether the property is freehold or leasehold.
- Review property information forms and fixtures and fittings information.
- Order and consider appropriate searches.
- Raise and respond to legal enquiries.
- Review planning permissions, building regulation documents and guarantees supplied by the seller.
- Investigate rights of way, easements, covenants and restrictions.
- Register the transaction and any new mortgage at HM Land Registry.
- Advise on lease terms, service charges, ground rent and planned major works.
- Deal with mortgage and lender requirements.
- Redeem existing mortgages and other charges.
- Prepare the transfer and other completion documents.
- Prepare a completion statement.
- Arrange the transfer of purchase money.
- Complete the transaction
- Deal with Stamp Duty Land Tax requirements where applicable.
- Deal with notices, certificates and other post-completion requirements
We will also explain when you may need advice from a surveyor, financial adviser, tax adviser, planning consultant or other specialist. Legal conveyancing does not replace a physical survey or specialist financial and tax advice.
The conveyancing process
1. Getting started
Once you instruct us, we will:
- Confirm the scope of our work.
- Provide information about our fees and likely disbursements.
- Verify your identity.
- Obtain information about the transaction.
- Confirm any mortgage, sale, purchase or chain details.
- Explain the documents and information we need from you.
Identity checks and source of funds enquiries are part of our legal and regulatory obligations under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017.
Providing information promptly at the beginning can help prevent avoidable delays later.
2. If you are selling
We will obtain the title information and prepare the contract package. This may include:
- Property information forms.
- Fixtures and fittings information.
- Guarantees and warranties.
- Planning and building regulation documents.
- Information about alterations and extensions.
- Leasehold or management information, where applicable.
Preparing the contract papers early can help the sale progress more efficiently once a buyer is found.
3. If you are buying
- Who owns the property.
- Whether the seller has the right to sell.
- Rights of way and access.
- Restrictive covenants.
- Charges and mortgages.
- Restrictions on the title.
- Planning and building regulation information.
- Search results.
- Lease terms and leasehold liabilities.
- Whether there are any matters that may affect your use or enjoyment of the property.
A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land must comply with statutory formalities under the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, s 2.
4. Searches and enquiries
Searches help identify matters affecting the property and its surroundings. Depending on the circumstances, these may include:
- Local authority searches.
- Water and drainage searches.
- Environmental searches.
- Flood risk searches.
- Coal mining or other mining searches.
- Planning and highways information.
- Chancel repair searches.
- Additional location specific searches.
We will consider the results and raise further enquiries where appropriate. Searches do not assess the physical condition of a property, so we usually recommend that buyers arrange an independent survey.
5. Mortgage and funding
If you are borrowing to fund the purchase, we will review the mortgage offer and deal with the lender’s legal requirements where we are able to act for that lender.
You should not exchange contracts until you are satisfied that:
- Your mortgage offer is in place.
- Any conditions attached to the offer can be met.
- Your deposit and other funds are available.
- You can complete on the proposed completion date.
A lender may require further information about gifted deposits, alterations, planning matters, lease terms, buildings insurance or other issues.
6. Reporting to you
Before exchange of contracts, we will provide a report explaining the important legal and practical matters identified.
Our report may cover:
The title.
Search results.
Rights and restrictions.
Covenants and easements.
Leasehold obligations.
Replies to enquiries.
Mortgage conditions.
Completion arrangements.
Any risks or outstanding issues.
Our role is not simply to process paperwork. We help you understand the transaction so that you can decide whether and how to proceed.
7. Exchange of contracts
Exchange of contracts is generally the point at which the parties become legally committed to complete, unless the contract contains specific conditions.
The contract will normally set out:
The purchase price.
The deposit.
The property being sold.
The completion date.
Any special conditions.
The consequences of failing to complete.
Before exchange, you should be satisfied with the legal advice provided and the condition and suitability of the property. You should also have arranged buildings insurance where appropriate and made practical arrangements for moving.
8. Completion
Completion takes place when the purchase money has been received and the contractual requirements have been satisfied.
For a buyer, completion usually means that ownership or the relevant contractual interest passes in accordance with the contract and that the keys can be released. For a seller, completion means that the sale proceeds are received, any existing mortgage is redeemed and the remaining balance is dealt with in accordance with your instructions.
9. After completion
Our work may continue after completion. Depending on the matter, we may:
- Submit the Stamp Duty Land Tax return and arrange payment where applicable.
- Register the transfer and mortgage at HM Land Registry.
- Deal with restrictions on the title.
- Notify a landlord, freeholder or managing agent.
- Deal with leasehold notices and certificates.
- Provide confirmation and registration documents once available.
Stamp Duty Land Tax returns and payment are generally due within 14 days of the effective date of a transaction under the Finance Act 2003, s 76A. The amount payable depends on the property and the purchaser’s circumstances.
A transfer of a registered estate and the creation of certain registrable interests must be registered at HM Land Registry under the Land Registration Act 2002, s 27.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no fixed timescale. A straightforward transaction may take several weeks, but a matter may take longer where there is a chain, a leasehold property, a new-build purchase, a mortgage, delayed searches, incomplete title information or complex enquiries.
We will give you an initial indication of likely timescales and update you if circumstances change. A completion date cannot normally be guaranteed until it has been agreed and included in the contract.
You should instruct us as early as possible. Sellers may benefit from instructing us before the property is marketed, allowing the contract papers to be prepared in advance. Buyers should instruct us as soon as an offer is accepted, or earlier if they require advice before making an offer.
Exchange is generally when the contract becomes binding. Completion is when the transaction is completed and the purchase money is transferred. A buyer or seller who fails to complete after exchange may face serious contractual and financial consequences. If you have concerns, contact us immediately.
Searches and legal investigations do not normally assess the physical condition of a property. A survey may identify structural or other defects that are not apparent from the legal documents. We can explain the distinction between conveyancing searches and a survey, but a survey should be obtained from an appropriately qualified surveyor.
Leasehold property is held for a fixed term under a lease. We will consider matters such as:
- The remaining term.
- Ground rent.
- Service charges.
- Planned major works.
- Restrictions on alterations or subletting.
- Consent and notice requirements.
- Building insurance.
- Management company arrangements.
- Arrears and historic charges.
- Requirements affecting resale or remortgage.
Leasehold transactions can take longer where information must be obtained from a landlord, freeholder or managing agent.
Costs may include:
- Our legal fees.
- VAT, where applicable.
- Search fees.
- HM Land Registry fees.
- Stamp Duty Land Tax, where applicable.
- Mortgage or lender charges.
- Leasehold notices and management company fees.
- Bank transfer charges.
Landlord or managing agent fees. - Additional fees arising from unusual complexity or work outside the agreed scope.
We will provide a written estimate or quotation and explain the anticipated disbursements. If additional work becomes necessary, we will explain this wherever possible before significant additional costs are incurred.
Withdrawal after exchange can result in serious financial and contractual consequences. You should contact us before taking any action if you are considering withdrawing or are concerned about the transaction.
A chain exists where several connected sales and purchases depend on one another. Completion dates may need to be coordinated across the chain.
We will liaise with the other conveyancers and keep you updated, but the timing may depend on matters outside our control.
We may need evidence showing where your funds have come from. This could include savings, a gift, an inheritance, the sale of another property, a loan or funds held overseas. If your deposit is gifted, your mortgage lender may have specific requirements. Tell us about any gifted deposit at the outset.
Property transactions involve the transfer of substantial sums of money. Treat any unexpected change to bank details as potentially fraudulent.
Do not transfer money based solely on an email. Telephone our office using a trusted number and verify the details directly with us before sending funds.
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If you are buying, selling, remortgaging or transferring a property, contact MYM Law today. We can discuss your circumstances, explain the next steps and provide an estimate of our fees.
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