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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – August and September 2025
Imogen Roberts
The receivers will want to minimise any liability they have in relation to the property sale.
The receivers will usually include a clause in the Contract for Sale and the Transfer confirming that they do not have any personal liability in relation to the sale.
Buyers should ensure they do very thorough research and take certain preparatory steps before completing on a purchase.
There may be outstanding charges which are registered against the property and these will need to be discharged in the usual way on completion. The buyer’s solicitor should ensure they have the relevant undertakings in place prior to completion and that they have all the information required to register these discharges with the Land Registry as it is the buyer’s solicitor’s job to do this.
There are a number of Land Registry requirements which need to be satisfied to register the Transfer of the property on completion. These include requiring certified copies of certain documents and the receiver’s execution clauses being in a specific form. The buyer’s solicitor needs to make sure these requirements have been dealt with prior to exchange or that they have undertakings for them to be dealt with by completion to ensure there are no issues with registration.
Receivers will usually want to deal with a transaction quickly and the process can be competitive so buyers need to be ready to move swiftly. Buyers should make sure they have their solicitors, surveyors and funds lined up when making an offer in order to secure the property.
Buying a property from a receiver can have its benefits but ultimately the buyer will assume a greater risk for this and so they need to understand those risks and be comfortable that they have alleviated them where possible in order to proceed with the purchase.
If you have any questions about any of the real estate issues covered in this blog, please contact Vanessa Rhodes or the Real Estate team.
Vanessa is a partner in the Real Estate team and is experienced in a range of commercial and residential property matters.
We welcome views and opinions about the issues raised in this blog. Should you require specific advice in relation to personal circumstances, please use the form on the contact page.
Imogen Roberts
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