Conveyancing

Building Regulations

What are the Building Regulations? The Building Regulations set minimum standards for the design and construction and alterations to...

Exchange & Completion

Exchange of Contracts and Completion Exchange of Contracts is the moment when the seller and buyer become irrevocably and legally bound...

Surveys

Let the buyer beware - ‘Caveat Emptor’ It is very important for a buyer to have a house or flat professionally surveyed before...

Gifted Deposits

What is a ‘Gifted Deposit’? The first type of ‘gifted deposit’ (which we will call a ‘Seller’s gifted deposit’) is where the seller gives...

Property Searches

What are ‘Searches’? Before you become bound to buy the property on exchange of contracts your conveyancer will make a number of property...

Buying a property with solar panels

We cannot advise on the decision whether to fit panels to an existing property but the comments may help you. If you are thinking of...

EV Charging Points

Buying a property with an EV charging point If you are buying a property that has an electric vehicle (EV) charging point on it there are...

Asbestos in houses

Asbestos in Pre-2000’s properties Asbestos can often be found in pre-2000 properties but use of it was banned after that date. The...

Moving Home, Money Matters

As we head into the New Year, we may have new hopes for the year ahead. A new home is often at the top of people's wish lists. Working...

Avoiding Cybercrime

Cybercrime & conveyancing Conveyancing clients and conveyancers have been targeted increasingly by sophisticated fraudsters over the last...

First-Time Homebuyer? Be Prepared and Stress Less

The legal process of buying a property doesn't have to be complicated or stressful. There are a few things you can do before you have...

Hello

Welcome to My Blog! My name is Joanne Bowmer and I am the owner of Joanne Bowmer Consultant Services. I have worked in the legal...