Purchasers Checklist

Have you

• Recieved Home Information Pack
• Instructed your solicitor
• Paid your solicitor the local search fee? (not applicable after 1st June 2007)
• Applied for your mortgage and therefore paid the valuation or survey fee to your bank or building society?
• Are you having a full structural survey? If yes, has this been organised?
• Organised life assurance to cover your mortgage? If yes, have you filled in the relevant forms?

Before you can exchange contracts you will need...

• Your mortgage offer.
• Your deposit monies to be with your solicitor in the form of 'cleared funds' (bankers draft, building society cheque etc.)
• To have signed your contract and agreed the fixtures and fittings list provided by the vendor.
• Your survey report.
• Your solicitor to have had a satisfactory local search , replies to enquiries, documentation relating to property you are buying (not applicable after 1st June 2007).
• To have agreed a date for completion with your vendor and if you are involved in a chain all parties must agree the same date for moving. This must be agreed before your solicitor can exchange contracts and is not normally arranged for a weekend, bank holiday or other public holiday.