| When buying a home, using a conveyancing solicitor | | | | time. The length of the time can be from buying to |
| would be a very wise decision. Your solicitor will guide | | | | completion may range from anything between 2 to 8 |
| you on all the pertinent issues that arise when buying | | | | weeks. |
| a house. You can use his/her expertise to gauge | | | | If there are no complications and if there isn't a chain |
| whether the deal you are making is fair and at all | | | | of transactions, completion will be early (within two |
| legal. | | | | to three weeks). Other problems may also delay |
| Your solicitor will smoothly guide you through the | | | | completion of the buying process. These include, but |
| process while translating the terms and conditions | | | | are not limited to issuance of mortgage offers, repair |
| from legal jargon in to simple English that is easily | | | | of structural damage on the property, passing |
| understood by you. It is a known phenomenon that | | | | surveys and checks of the property etc. |
| buying or leasing properties take a lot of time. It is | | | | No conveyancing solicitor would deliberately delay the |
| not like buying a new flat screen TV in the afternoon | | | | completion process, because that is not in his or her |
| and watching the baseball match on it in the evening. | | | | own interests either. However, factors such as those |
| There is a heap of legal papers, which you have to | | | | mentioned above may hinder the process and slow |
| go through and then there are checks and regulations | | | | the transaction down. Therefore, when you contact |
| to follow. You need to pass quite some time waiting | | | | a conveyancer, you should keep a flexible time frame |
| to move into your new house before you are finally | | | | in your mind. In any case, do not settle for more |
| handed over the possession of the house. It is at | | | | than two, or at most, three months. |
| best a nerve-wracking time. | | | | In fact, if you take legal advice before finalising the |
| When you hire a conveyancing solicitor, the process | | | | property you want to purchase, the lawyers can help |
| actually becomes very easy for you, because all the | | | | you choose a property that will have a shorter online |
| details are taken care of by your solicitor and the | | | | conveyancing period, because it is either relatively |
| solicitor's team. If you hire a good conveyancer, you | | | | new, has been sold a less number of times, is in good |
| will actually speed up the transactions while also being | | | | shape, or does not have any ownership issues with it. |
| ensured that you are not duped for your money. | | | | If you have such advice at hand, not only will |
| However, the length of the process may be subject | | | | conveyancing be much faster for you, but you will be |
| to many things like the chain of transactions that the | | | | saved from a lot of unnecessary hassle that comes |
| property has to undergo, and other legal issues | | | | with disputed properties, or those that have passed |
| attached to the property. The chain of transactions is | | | | through many owners. |
| not present if the property is being sold for the first | | | | |