Category: Conveyancing

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How We Deliver Great Client Care and Service

It’s National Conveyancing Week this week, a week long campaign designed to help people better understand the conveyancing process. Today is our final Blog of the week where we discuss the importance of providing excellent client care and service when you are buying or selling a property. At Thornton Jones Solicitors our team embodies our values of […]

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What To Expect When Completing on a Property Purchase

It’s National Conveyancing Week this week, a week long campaign designed to help people better understand the conveyancing process. Today, in collaboration with Mike Dobson Estate Agency, we help you understand a little better what to expect when you are completing on a property purchase. So, you’ve exchanged contracts and completion day has finally arrived! But what is […]

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When Can Contracts be Exchanged?

This week is National Conveyancing Week, a week long campaign designed to help people better understand the conveyancing process. Today, with the help of Phoebe Chapman at Parkrow Properties in Sherburn in Elmet we answer a commonly asked question of when can contracts be exchanged. To start with, we should explain what is the exchange of […]

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Do I need a conveyancer and a solicitor to buy a house?

When buying or selling a house, or dealing with other property transactions such as remortgaging, you should seek expert legal support. If you have already been researching the issue, you likely know that the legal process of dealing with a property transaction is called ‘conveyancing’ and you may have come across different terms for the […]

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What is Unregistered Land?

Unregistered land is basically an asset that hasn’t been registered with the Land Registry. This doesn’t mean that the land isn’t owned, it just means that the details of the land (which includes who owns the land) is only documented in the Title Deeds and not centrally registered at the Land Registry. When land is registered […]

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What is a Deed of Trust and should you have one?

When you buy a property, the division of the asset is usually 50:50, meaning that each person named as ‘owner’ of the property within the Title Deeds owns an equal share of the property. This is typical for co-habiting couples and married couples and in such situations, there generally isn’t a need or desire for […]

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Advice For Home Buyers in 2021

It’s really important for us here at Thornton Jones to stay involved and when the subject is relevant to our business we take part in The Law Society’s #SolicitorChat which is a weekly Twitter discussion. Recently, Jess Taylor, one of our brilliant Conveyancing Solicitors, provided answers to these five key questions on the subject of ‘Advice for house hunters’. Question 1 Affordability […]

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