Conveyancing: Process, Searches, Importance and Recent Cases

Running head: CONVEYANCING
Conveyancing
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1CONVEYANCING
Conveyancing is the process by which legal and registered ownership of fixed
property, that includes land, firms, houses, residential or commercial as well as registration of
bonds and different other rights to properties that include servitude are obtained. It involves
the process of transfer from the time the sale deed is signed to the time the payment or the
consideration amount and the deed is delivered. A conveyancing transaction involves two
substantial stages; first, where the contracts are exchanged and the equitable interests are
being created and second, where the contracts are settled by merging the equitable rights with
the legal title1.
A conveyancing search would include various searches, varying from one property to
another, like:
 Local Authority Search is the primary search done to a property to know whether it
has any pending charges or restriction on it.
 For confirming the authenticity of the ownership and the boundary of the property, the
‘title register’ and ‘title plan’ at the Land Registry needs to be checked.
 There are several other checks like the Flood risks near coastal area, Water authority
searches, British Waterways search, Mining searches, Environmental search, and
etcetera.
 Depending on the locality, there can be several other geographical location based
searches, which might be essential for a particular property. A Conveyancer would
best advise it.
1 Deakin, Mark, and Robert Dixon-Gough. "Property Transactions in the UK: A Situation of Institutional
Stability or Technical Change?." The Ontology and Modelling of Real Estate Transactions. Routledge, 2017.
67-82.