On the eve of exchange of contracts, as a house buyer, what tasks should I check have been completed?
• The draft contract for the hose sale has been agreed and one of your copies has been returned unsigned to the hose seller. • Satisfactory replies have been received in the house seller’s Seller’s Property Information Forms or Enquiries before Contract. • You are satisfied with the replies you received to the forms you sent to the council, what you learned on your fact-finding tour and to your water company and enviromental search. • If the Office Copies revealed anything such as a caution or a Matrimonial Home charge, the house seller has obtained cancellation of the registration of such a charge or notice. • You have got a firm offer of a mortgage for buying a house. • If it applies, you have your own house sale tied up. If a deposit cheque bounces, the house sale contract is automatically washed out. • You have checked that everyone over the age of 18 who lives in the house is prepared to move, whether their names appear on the register or not, by getting them to sign a statement t
