Conveyancing Explained

July 11, 2008

Your conveyancing solicitor should provide you with a copy of the plan of the property held at the Land Registry, showing the land which you are going to purchase. You need to check this carefully against the property on the ground to make sure that you will receive what you are actually expecting to and that the seller is not purporting to sell land to you that he/she does not own.

I’ve seen this happen before, where the seller had decided to fence off some land next to the property that actually belonged to the Council. No one had objected in the two years that had passed since, but the seller still didn’t legally own the land and therefore, what appeared to be a property situated on a large corner plot was actually a lot smaller. Something to be wary of!