Instruct your solicitor.

Send you a client care letter.

Sign and return the letter along with proof of your identity and detail of your current mortgage (if applicable).

Send you:

• Fixtures & fittings form
• Property information form
• Leasehold property info form

Fill out these forms as best you can (your solicitor will help you) then send them back along with:

• Any building work guarantees you have.
• Planning Permissions or Building Consents you've been granted.

Obtain your:

• Title Deeds.
• Land Registry Office Copies.

• Last 3 years service charge accounts.
• Their projected expenditure for the next 12 months.
• Building insurance details.
• A copy of the lease.

Instruct your solicitor.

Prepare the draft contract.

Compile a contract pack & send it to your buyer's conveyancing solicitor.

Answer questions from your buyer's conveyancing solicitor about the contract pack.

Chase for confirmation that your buyer's mortgage application has been approved.

Help your solicitor to answer these questions fully.

Negotiate a target completion date with all parties & have this written into the contract.

Provide input on the completion date negotiation.

Receive acknowledgment from your buyer's solicitor that he & his client are happy & ready to proceed.

Send you the finalized contract.

Check the contract and if happy, sign & send it back.

Swap signed contracts with your buyer's conveyancing solicitor.

Collect and hold your buyer's deposit.

Have a glass of champagne because you've just EXCHANGED!!

You are now legally committed to the sale.

Confirm with your lender a settlement figure for the redemption of your current mortgage.

Receive, check & forward to you a transfer deed from your buyer's conveyancing solicitor.

Sign the transfer deed and return it as quickly as possible.

Receive from your buyer's mortgage lender (via the buyer's solicitor) full payment for the purchase of your home.

Send the title deeds & transfer deed to your buyer's solicitor.

Pay himself, your Estate Agent (if you use one) & the redemption settlement owed to your current mortgage lender.

Vacate your property and organize to hand over the keys to the new owners.

Have another glass of champagne because you've just COMPLETED!!

Forward any money leftover from the sale to you.

(If you are simultaneously buying) Forward the money to your vendor's solicitor.

Receive the title deeds & transfer deed for your new house.

You collect the keys for your new home, move in & finish what's left of the champagne.

Registers you as owners of your new home at H.M. Land Registry.

Forward your new title deeds to you or your lender (if you purchased with a loan).

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