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SELLING
If you are selling, or even considering selling, the transaction
can be considerably simplified and costs reduced if you can
first deal with a number of preliminary matters:
TITLE DEEDS
Unless we already hold the Land Registry Certificate or title
deeds for you, these should be sent to us so that a draft
contract can be prepared in advance. The deeds or certificate
should either be with you, your bank, building society or
other lender.
Alternatively, please let us have the building society's
roll number or the bank's address and reference to enable
us to obtain either the title documents direct, or the necessary
information relating to them.
SEARCHES
Consider asking us to institute local authority and other
searches, which are required to ensure that the property is
not subject to some Local Authority scheme, development or
other adverse matter. These will be required by the buyer
and it can speed the sale if you instruct us to institute
these searches at the outset. On your behalf, we can then
offer to sell these searches to the buyer's solicitor and
thus save time. As searches normally only have a useful life
of about two months, you must take a view on what may prove
to be an abortive cost.
PRELIMINARY ENQUIRIES
Generally, only the seller with his personal knowledge of
the property can provide the answers to the buyer's formal
Preliminary Enquiries. These will be contained in a standard
form which we will send you to check and return.
PLANNING PERMISSION: GUARANTEES
We will need copies of all planning permissions, damp proofing
and woodworm guarantees and any other relevant correspondence,
documents or notices affecting your property, as they are
likely to be required by a buyer.
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