Conveyancing is the legal process carried out by solicitors that transfers shared equity or property from one owner to another. Your shared conveyancing will be carried out by conveyancing solicitors specialist employed by one of the CMS panel solicitors / licensed conveyancer.  All of our panel solicitors are approved for shared equity transfer and regularly checked by CMS.  All solicitors 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 conveyancing solicitors who undertake solicitors legal shared transfer sign a legal agreement to abide by the equity 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 solicitors will be qualified, experienced, pro-active and IT literate.  The CMS solicitors panel is constantly under review.

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.