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What Conveyancing Involves..

Your conveyancer will perform the following tasks and checks:

• Examinine the title deeds for potential problems;
• Conduct local searches for planning conditions or other conditions of ownership. These will involve checking that the street, pavement and drains are maintained by the local authority.
• Create a draft contract of sale.
• Arranging for any stamp duty to be paid and registering or recording the change of title to the property, and the mortgage deed, with the Land Registry.
• Assist in co-ordinating the sale. If a property chain exists delays or breaks in the chain can result in delays to the intended complation date or even cause a sale or purchase to fall through.

What does Leasehold mean?

Leasehold means that somebody else has title to the land and that you will therefore have to pay a ground rent and possibly also a service charge to the freeholder (owner of the freehold title). It is normally possible to buy the freehold title at a later date as a separate purchase transaction.

It therefore follows that the valuation of two identical properties, one being leasehold and the other freehold, would result in a lower value being applied to the leasehold property.

It is important to check the length of time remaining on the lease (Commonly the leases would have been originally issued with a 99 year life span). If not much time is remaining on the lease it may be difficult to obtain a mortgage, unless the freehold can also be purchased subsequently.

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