Conveyancing

Are you thinking of purchasing or selling a property in Scotland? We can help.

John Macleod, Ewan Donald and Chris Stuart are the Directors handling conveyancing transactions. In addition we have a team of experienced, qualified, paralegals who attend to much of the day to day work. You can be assured that our aim is to guide you through your transaction and make it as trouble free as possible.

We can also assist with Commercial Property

Purchase

• Noting Interest
• Instructing a Survey
• Making an Offer
• Examining Title Deeds
• Concluding Missives
• Obtaining Funds
• Stamp Duty Land Tax
• Registration of Deeds

Let us guide you through your Purchase

Sale

• Obtaining Title Deeds
• Checking deeds
• P16 Report on boundaries
• Dealing with Interested parties
• Handling Offers
• Concluding Missives
• Obtaining Search Reports
• Paying off secured loans
• Getting funds to you

Let us guide you through your Sale.

Re-Mortgage

• Obtaining Title Deeds
• P16 Report on boundaries
• Obtaining Search Reports
• Repayment of old loan
• Obtain funds for new loan
• Registration of deeds

Let us guide you through your Re-mortgage.

Changes to Scottish Property Law

There have been numerous changes to the law of land and property in Scotland in recent years. Even seemingly simple house sale and purchase transactions have now become more complex.

We can help to guide you through the process of your property transaction and advise you of various matters you should be thinking about.

Some of the more recent Legislation

• Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003
• Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003
• Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004
• Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006

Some things to watch out for on the horizon

• ARTL (automated registration of title to land)
• Home Reports - from 1st December 2008 a seller will require to provide a Home Report. For more information refer to Estate Agency