Housing and Property

Housing and Property

The buying and selling of property is one of the most stressful events clients encounter. Here at CMS we try and make the conveyancing process as simple, speedy, efficient and, more importantly, as helpful as we can. We deal with all types of property, freehold, leasehold, houses, maisonettes, flats and apartments. We offer competitive charges - please contact  rosie.cowley@chamberlainmartin.com at our Bognor office or susan.rutherford@chamberlainmartin.com or sarah.mcgee@chamberlainmartin.com at our Littlehampton office for a quote.  The phone numbers are for our Bognor office 01243 825211 or our Littlehampton office 01903 713814

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All purchase transactions are different, but they do have certain stages that can be identified:

  1. Taking instructions and providing initial advice.
  2. Verifying your identity
  3. Checking finances are in place to fund the purchase.
  4. Receipt of the contract documents, checking them and providing initial advice.
  5. Requesting the searches.
  6. Obtaining any supplementary planning documents.
  7. Check through the mortgage and any conditions that are imposed.
  8. Report to you on the contract and searches including sending out the contract documents for signing by you.
  9. Advising on joint ownership.
  10. Drafting the Land Registry Transfer document
  11. Liaising with parties to agree a completion date.
  12. Carrying out ore completion searches
  13. Exchanging contracts.
  14. Requesting mortgage funds and requesting any balance due from you.
  15. Completing the purchase.
  16. Notifying the lender that the matter has completed.
  17. Paying the stamp duty land tax.
  18. Submitting the purchase documents to the Land Registry for registration.

Clients often ask how long will the purchase take. This depends on a number of factors, but you are dependent on other parties in the chain doing their bit. The average time is between 6 and 9 weeks,  but leasehold purchases, shared ownership leases, new build properties or lease extensions are examples of matters that most likely will take longer than the average.

Our work includes:

  • Sale and Purchas of freehold property
  • Sale and Purchase of leasehold property
  • New build purchases
  • Rights of way/Easements
  • Mortgages
  • Equity release
  • Shared ownership
  • Transfers of Part
  • Right to Buy purchases
  • Acting for Landlords
  • Lease Extensions

The conveyancing team is made up of two CILEX Legal Executives, Rosie Cowley & Emma Murphy with excess of 10 years experience.   Plus two Solicitors, Sarah McGee with an excess of 5 years experience and Susan Rutherford with over 22 years experience.

DISCLAIMER PLEASE BE AWARE OF CYBER-CRIME. OUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS WILL NOT CHANGE DURING THE COURSE OF A TRANSACTION. CHAMBERLAIN MARTIN SOLICITORS WILL NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU TRANSFER MONEY TO A WRONG ACCOUNT.