• Drawing on the authors' extensive experience in legal practice, this book offers a detailed and rigorous overview of both residential and commercial conveyancing making it essential reading for LPC students, trainee and qualified practitioners, and licensed conveyancers alike
• Relevant sample documentation featured throughout introduces the precedent documents, forms and clauses likely to be encountered in practice ensuring that the reader is fully prepared for life in practice
• Key point summaries and practical checklists provide additional learning support enabling the reader to easily identify key information or quickly refresh their knowledge of essential points
• Accompanied by a free Online Resource Centre offering additional teaching support via a test bank of fully customizable multiple choice questions which can be used to test students' understanding of the topics covered in the book
• For students, the Online Resource Centre provides additional examples of specimen forms and links to websites which contain further useful and relevant information

New to this edition

• This eleventh edition has been fully revised to include the latest developments in this area including new requirements relating to Home Information Packs, changes introduced by the Land Registration Act 2002 (Amendment Order) 2008 and further developments relating to e-conveyancing
• Selected forms contained in the appendices have been completed to provide realistic worked examples of how such forms should be completed in practice

Readership: Suitable for students undertaking the compulsory property law and practice module as part of the Legal Practice Course. Also a useful source of reference for practitioners of property law or licensed conveyancers.

Robert Abbey, Professor of Legal Education and Practice, University of Westminster, and Mark Richards, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster

Review(s) from previous edition

"This is an excellent text. It provides a superb account of the conveyancing procedures. The useful precedents, practical checklists and key points mean that the confusions conveyancing can cause are quickly overcome! - Student Law Journal

"Effective written communication is a skill possessed by only a few. The writers of this book have that skill. The subject is logically separated and then presented in a writing style that is clear, concise and informative." - Customer review of a previous edition, Amazon.co.uk

1.: Introduction
2.: Taking instructions and other initial matters
3.: The draft contract
4.: Pre-contract searches and enquiries, town and country planning
5.: Deduction and investigation of title
6.: Exchange of contracts; death or insolvency of contracting parties between exchange and completion
7.: The purchase deed and mortgage
8.: Pre-completion procedures and completion
9.: Post-completion procedures: delays and remedies
10.: Leaseholds and commonholds
11.: New properties
12.: Commercial conveyancing
13.: Business tenancies and the Landlord and Tenact Act 1954, Part II