Step by Step Guide to Selling Your Home
If you are selling a property, the Conveyancing team here at Vincents are on hand to help you through the process to ensure a smooth sale through to completion.
We provide a reliable, efficient, friendly service to all our clients and we won’t charge the earth for it.
What is the process when selling a property?
We’ve set out below what the stages of selling a property are and what we’ll be doing to ensure that completion of your sale happens when you want it to. We can also handle all the conveyancing if you’re buying a new property, to make sure that both happen seamlessly on the same day.
Step By Step Guide to Selling your home
Most clients sell their property through an agent. When a sale is agreed, it is at this point you will need to appoint us.
We will ask you to complete several forms relating to the property. These forms will also deal with the fixtures and fittings. We will also require your identification documents and your deeds (this is extremely important if the property has not been registered at the Land Registry).
When we have received everything from you, we will prepare the draft contract and send this together with any deeds and documents to the buyer’s Solicitor.
If you have a mortgage secured on the property you are selling, we will also ask for the account number and we will obtain from your lender a statement setting out what you currently owe on the mortgage.
The buyer’s Solicitor will review, approve the contract, and order the searches. At this point the buyer’s Solicitor will raise any enquiries they or the buyer may have. We will deal with as many questions as we can but some may require assistance from you.
We will also ask you to sign the draft contract.
When the buyer’s Solicitor has received all the replies, the searches, and mortgage offer (if required), we will discuss exchange of contracts. A date for completion will need to be agreed in advance of exchange, between all the parties in the chain.
When a completion date is agreed we will exchange contracts. This means that you are legally bound to sell the property to the buyer. If you pull out of the transaction after this point you will incur financial penalties.
Prior to completion you will be asked to sign a Transfer Deed (TR1). This is the Deed confirming that you will transfer ownership over to the buyer. We will hold this until we receive the money from the buyer’s Solicitor on the day of completion.
On the day of completion we will receive the balance of funds for the purchase. If you have a mortgage, we will repay this in full using the funds along with our fees and the cost of any other disbursements as well as sending you the balance of the sale proceeds.
Clear advice feels better so if you have any queries regarding Selling a Property please contact our Conveyancing Solicitors department on 01772 555 176 or enquire online completing Request a Callback form at the top of this page.
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Good morning,
I just wanted to send an appreciation email! People are often quick to complain but not as quick to give appraisal.
This is the second time that I have used Vincent’s solicitors and I have yet again been very happy with the service received. Any queries I had were always answered efficiently & I never felt that I asked too many questions (or that they were silly to ask!). Nothing was too much trouble. Joe, also a great point of contact with again great communication and always very helpful.
Thank you so much for making this a stress free process, and I will continue to recommend Vincent’s Solicitors & the team there.
Happy Monday & have a great week!
Kind regards,
Jessica
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Nicole, Sarah, Daisy
A belated thank you from me for all your support , patience and hard work on getting the purchase over the line.
As ever, a first rate service from you all – you are by far the best conveyancing team I have ever experienced and as this was property transaction no 18 for me that gives you some context !
Kind regards
Alison
Clear Advice Feels Better
Following completion on my property sale I just wanted to show my appreciation for Vincents conveyancing services and in particular the support provided by Kerry Rankine.
Kerry was efficient, responsive and proactive throughout the transaction, her efforts made what could have been a stressful process straightforward and stress free, please pass on my personal thanks.
Now that this property has been sold we need to sort out our Wills & LPAs and I would appreciate an introduction to a suitable contact within Vincents, our preference would be to visit the Garstang office.
Regards
Adrian
Highly Recommended
I highly recommend Vincent’s solicitors for their exceptional conveyancing services. June and her team were not only friendly but also displayed extensive knowledge, delivering an excellent service for the selling and purchase of my new property.
Efficient and Reliable
We have used Vincents now on two occasions and cannot fault them. They are efficient, reliable as always. And as for solicitors, I will not use anybody else going forward. Amazing service and would recommend them to anybody!
Extremely Responsive
My wife and I have used Vincent solicitors for conveyancing since 2005 and for every property I’ve bought they have provided a consistently great service. They are always extremely responsive which helps enormously to speed the transactions along and they have always shown a high level of expertise. That expertise was especially useful in our most recent house purchase, which saw us move from a city centre property in the South East, to rural Cumbria. For this purchase June Caunce was our conveyancer and she helped guide us through the intricacies of easements, septic tanks, boundary issues and more! These are all elements we had not encountered before and so having a local and knowledgeable firm helping us was vital in covering off those elements, ensuring the purchase went smoothly.
Clear Advice Feels Better
Good morning,
I just wanted to send an appreciation email! People are often quick to complain but not as quick to give appraisal.
This is the second time that I have used Vincent’s solicitors and I have yet again been very happy with the service received. Any queries I had were always answered efficiently & I never felt that I asked too many questions (or that they were silly to ask!). Nothing was too much trouble. Joe, also a great point of contact with again great communication and always very helpful.
Thank you so much for making this a stress free process, and I will continue to recommend Vincent’s Solicitors & the team there.
Happy Monday & have a great week!
Kind regards,
Jessica
Clear Advice Feels Better
Nicole, Sarah, Daisy
A belated thank you from me for all your support , patience and hard work on getting the purchase over the line.
As ever, a first rate service from you all – you are by far the best conveyancing team I have ever experienced and as this was property transaction no 18 for me that gives you some context !
Kind regards
Alison
Clear Advice Feels Better
Following completion on my property sale I just wanted to show my appreciation for Vincents conveyancing services and in particular the support provided by Kerry Rankine.
Kerry was efficient, responsive and proactive throughout the transaction, her efforts made what could have been a stressful process straightforward and stress free, please pass on my personal thanks.
Now that this property has been sold we need to sort out our Wills & LPAs and I would appreciate an introduction to a suitable contact within Vincents, our preference would be to visit the Garstang office.
Regards
Adrian
Highly Recommended
I highly recommend Vincent’s solicitors for their exceptional conveyancing services. June and her team were not only friendly but also displayed extensive knowledge, delivering an excellent service for the selling and purchase of my new property.
Efficient and Reliable
We have used Vincents now on two occasions and cannot fault them. They are efficient, reliable as always. And as for solicitors, I will not use anybody else going forward. Amazing service and would recommend them to anybody!
Extremely Responsive
My wife and I have used Vincent solicitors for conveyancing since 2005 and for every property I’ve bought they have provided a consistently great service. They are always extremely responsive which helps enormously to speed the transactions along and they have always shown a high level of expertise. That expertise was especially useful in our most recent house purchase, which saw us move from a city centre property in the South East, to rural Cumbria. For this purchase June Caunce was our conveyancer and she helped guide us through the intricacies of easements, septic tanks, boundary issues and more! These are all elements we had not encountered before and so having a local and knowledgeable firm helping us was vital in covering off those elements, ensuring the purchase went smoothly.
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