If I am buying a house from family, with a mortgage involved, do I
still need to employ a solicitor / conveyancer to do work. I know the
house, and will not be having surveys etc ?
Simon.

In message .com,
writes
If I am buying a house from family, with a mortgage involved, do I
still need to employ a solicitor / conveyancer to do work. I know the
house, and will not be having surveys etc ?
Simon.


If there is a mortgage you will be having a valuation and the lender
will require a solicitor to protect their interests - so you might as
well make sure it is a solicitor of your choosing rather than theirs.

--
Richard Faulkner

If there is a mortgage you will be having a valuation and the lender
will require a solicitor to protect their interests - so you might as
well make sure it is a solicitor of your choosing rather than theirs.
Would it be cheaper to have the same solicitor for the buying and
selling of this
family house ? There is adverserial situation as it is family.
I guess a solicitor might not be required for the selling itself.
Simon.

wrote in message
oups.com...
If I am buying a house from family, with a mortgage involved, do I
still need to employ a solicitor / conveyancer to do work. I know the
house, and will not be having surveys etc ?
Simon.

Technically you can do it yourself. There are a few books available. "House
Buying, Selling, and Conveyancing" by Bradshaw
"The Conveyancing Fraud" By Joseph. He actually got the law changed
exposing the whole charade. A "Which" book is available too.

Many solicitors use conveyancing as a fallback income, making this fallback
all for themselves over the past 150 years. In the UK conveyancing take a
long time, and they made sure it takes that long too. The average domestic
lawyer who deals with divorces and the likes, knows just as much about
conveyancing as the average person. He just picks up books too. Most employ
a clerk to do the conveyancing, by just taking up one desk, a phone, and a
poorly paid clerk.

Doctor Drivel wrote:

wrote in message
oups.com...

If I am buying a house from family, with a mortgage involved, do I
still need to employ a solicitor / conveyancer to do work. I know the
house, and will not be having surveys etc ?
Simon.


Technically you can do it yourself. There are a few books available.
"House Buying, Selling, and Conveyancing" by Bradshaw
"The Conveyancing Fraud" By Joseph. He actually got the law changed
exposing the whole charade. A "Which" book is available too.

Many solicitors use conveyancing as a fallback income, making this
fallback all for themselves over the past 150 years. In the UK
conveyancing take a long time, and they made sure it takes that long
too. The average domestic lawyer who deals with divorces and the likes,
knows just as much about conveyancing as the average person. He just
picks up books too. Most employ a clerk to do the conveyancing, by just
taking up one desk, a phone, and a poorly paid clerk.

This is all perfectly true, and I'm certainly no big fan of solicitors,
but you need to remember that you are also paying for them to take
responsibility for the legal side, so if something goes wrong, now or in
the future, they take the fall (and hopefully, even prevent something
going wrong in the first place?)

David

wrote:
If I am buying a house from family, with a mortgage involved, do I
still need to employ a solicitor / conveyancer to do work. I know the
house, and will not be having surveys etc ?
Simon.


AIUI, buying houses from family is almost guaranteed to cause family
break-up.
But best look on the bright side.


john2