If your offer is accepted
Once your offer has been accepted, if you haven’t done so already, instruct your solicitor and give their details to your estate agent. You need to make sure your solicitor is aware of the speed issue as this is the stage of the process where many buyers are gazumped. (View information on our Goodwill Charter - designed to prevent gazumping and gazundering.)
Provide the solicitors with any paperwork as soon as you can. Also, if you are using a financial advisor, request they submit your mortgage application. You also need to make arrangements for the survey (which again your financial advisor will do).
The solicitor will then proceed and start the necessary searches which include a local authority search, land registry search as well as looking into stamp duty and other legal paperwork. They transfer the title deeds into the buyers names and organise the mortgage deed.
Stay in regular contact with your estate agent and your solicitor so you are aware of everything that is going on with the purchase.