New Build Purchases: Top Tips for Residential Conveyancers

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Why Attend?

New build purchases present a wide range of risks for Conveyancers and their clients. As a busy property lawyer, you need to identify red flags quickly and give clear advice to your clients.

So, this presentation is designed to provide you with a vital overview of key risks and essential guidance for navigating the evolving challenges of new build property transactions.

This focused, practical session will bring you up to speed with the latest legal and procedural pitfalls, including a range of headaches that can arise before exchange and post-completion, such as—

1. Land Registry guidance on new-build purchases and registrations
2. Has the planning permission been properly implemented? Have pre-commencement and pre-occupation planning conditions been complied with?
3. Does a Professional Consultant’s Certificate provide adequate protection for purchasers?
4. Risks for buyers where the estate roads are to remain unadopted
5. Changes to the estate plan and issues arising from a replacement deed plan
6. Estate Rentcharges: are the Transfer provisions satisfactory?
7. Community Infrastructure Levy: what could happen if post-completion instalments are not paid?
8. Affordable housing: planning obligations and adjoining owner-occupier concerns
9. Section 106 agreements: have the planning obligations been discharged?
10. Key elements of the New Homes Quality Code and emerging issues arising from New Homes Ombudsman rulings
11. Matters that might not be resolved until after completion