Buying or Selling a home
Our experienced conveyancers can help you with your house sale or purchase.
Property Purchase
Buying a home is often the largest purchase you will make in your lifetime, let J W Hughes & Co Solicitors guide you through the process.
Our experienced conveyancers offer fast, efficient, professional, expert, and personal service to ease the stress of your move.
We are experienced in all types of property transactions, for example:
- Buying Freehold Property
- Buying Leasehold Property (Wales)
- Buying New Build Property
- First Time Buyer
- Buy-to-Let Property
- Shared Ownership Scheme
- Auction Property
- Properties with Restrictive Covenants
We recommend that you contact us as soon as possible after you have decided to embark upon a transaction. We can give you independent advice in connection with surveys and valuations, mortgages, deposits, and many other matters which you will need to consider.
Leasehold Property in England – Please note that due to the implications of the Building Safety Act 2022 we are unable to assist with matters relating to residential properties in a building of more than four stories or higher than 11 metres. This is due to mortgage lenders not lending against such flat purchases. Thank you for your understanding.
Property Sales
Selling property can be stressful and it is easy to become overwhelmed by the process because there are lots of forms to complete and questions to be answered.
Our experienced conveyancers at JW Hughes & Co. offer an efficient and professional service. We will advise you at the outset what is required from you as the seller and the information you will need to provide to the buyer. You will likely have received some of this information when you purchased the property. Whether you are a cash buyer or are part of a selling chain, we can guide you through the logistics at every stage with our clear advice.
We recommend you contact us as soon as you have had an offer agreed on the sale so we can take steps to get the ball rolling ensuring that the process runs as smoothly as possible.
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Contact Our Conveyancers
Contact our conveyancers for a free no obligatory quote on 01492 874774 (Llandudno) or 01492 596596 (Conwy)
Rhys Lewis
Alaw Pari
Kim Wilkinson
Sarah Hope
Sapphire Hughes
Nathan Jones
FAQ's
A property chain is a common term used for a group of buyers and sellers that are linked together because their purchase or sale depends on others. For example, Joe is purchasing a house and has had his offer accepted. However, Joe must first sell his own flat to raise capital for this purchase. Mark and Sally have agreed to purchase Joe's flat, however, Mark and Sally must also sell their bungalow to raise capital to purchase Joe's flat.
The longer the chain, the more likely it is that something can go wrong. When this happens, the purchase or sale of a property may fall through.
You must pay Land Transaction Tax (Wales) or Stamp Duty Land Tax (England & Northern Ireland) if you buy a property or land over a certain price.
For more information please see Calculate Land Transaction Tax | GOV.WALES or Stamp Duty Land Tax: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Local Authority search – planning, building control, highway and pollution issues
- Environmental search – flooding, landslide, subsidence, contamination issues
- Water and drainage search – this will show whether it is connected to a public water supply, its location and whether the supply is metered or rateable, and who owns and maintains the sewers, drains and piping.
- Flooding search – provides a flood risk report
- Chancel search – Checks if a property is liable for the cost of repairs for the local parish church.
- Title searches – the title register will show any charges or debts against the property, details of any rights of way and the title plan will show the property boundaries.
The searches can take anything from 6-10 weeks. The Local Authority search tends to take the longest to receive back.
Once the searches are received, we will discuss the results with you and explain what they might mean for your new purchase.
The conveyancing process can take a number of weeks to complete and is dependent on various factors but, as a guideline, it can take anything between 8 -12 weeks.
Here are some examples that may cause delay to the process:
- Being in a property chain – if a person in a property chain experiences problems or pulls out at a late stage in the process it can cause delay to the other parties in the chain.
- Bad survey report – extra time might be needed for re-negotiation and further expert advice following a bad survey result.
- Mortgage Offer – sometimes there may be issues in obtaining a mortgage on a particular property or that a mortgage offer has expired and needs reapplying for.
- Searches – some searches take longer than others to come back.
- Delay in receiving paperwork for whatever reason.
Remember until exchange of contracts you are not legally bound to the property purchase or sale and can change your mind.