Equity conveyancing is the legal process that transfers equity release from one owner to another. Your transfer of equity or equity release conveyancing will be carried out by conveyancing equity release solicitors specialist employed by one of the CMS panel solicitors/ licensed conveyancer.  All of our panel firms are approved for equity transfer and regularly checked by CMS.  All firms are members of the Law Society or Council for Licensed Conveyancers (you will find their contact details in our Links section) and all carry at least £1,000,000 worth of indemnity insurance for the protection of their clients.

All of our fully qualified equity release solicitors who undertake equity release sign a legal agreement to abide by the equity release quotes we provide, not to charge "hidden extras" and also to provide the level of service published in our Service Charter - which you will find in the left hand menu. In a nutshell good conveyancing equity release solicitors will be qualified, experienced, pro-active and IT literate.

From 25.3.10 until 25.3.12 First Time Buyers buying a property at less than £250,000 will be exempt from stamp duty.  Please note that your quote will still display and include the stamp duty BUT if you are a first time buyer then stamp duty will not be charged.  If you are buying a property in excess of £1,000,000 the stamp duty rate will increase to 5% for all property purchases completed after 6th April 2011.