How long does conveyancing take?

Impossible to say, how long is a piece of string? If you are buying an empty property and have the cash available we could complete the conveyancing process in a week or two if the Sellers' solicitors were able to cooperate. If you need a mortgage you cannot exchange until you have a mortgage offer.

If you have a property to sell does your buyer need a mortgage offer? This forms the start of the property "chain". You could be very well organised and arrange for a mortgage offer to be issued within a few days of agreeing to purchase the property. Unfortunately, this may be wasted effort on your part if your buyer is less well organised and has not made a prompt application. In other words, this chain would not be ready to exchange until the slowest person in the chain is ready to proceed which is normally when his mortgage offer arrives.

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