Category: Conveyancing
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 […]
It’s National Conveyancing Week this week, a week long campaign designed to help people better understand the conveyancing process. Today, with the help of Luke Senior of Just Mortgages, we explain what the next steps are once your mortgage offer has been issued. A Mortgage Offer is the final step of the application process and is processed […]
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 […]
This week is National Conveyancing Week, a week long campaign designed to help people better understand the conveyancing process. Today, with the help of Chris Tudor of Tudor Financial Solutions Ltd we look at the best way for you to sell or buy a property. Once you have decided to get on the property ladder […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The next lockdown which starts on 5th November and runs for four weeks has again raised challenges for solicitors. Uncertainty stemming from the Prime Minister’s briefing on the impact to the housing market has been addressed following a Tweet from the Housing Minister, Robert Jenrick, who clearly stated that during this next phase of lockdown that: […]
