5 Key Conveyancing Myths & How to Clear Them Up

Introduction

Clients often make wrong assumptions and think everything should be obvious and easy. They think they have ‘consumer rights’ when buying a property, which they don’t.

Conveyancers try their best to explain the complexities of property transactions but sometimes the message does not get through. This results in complaints and claims.

This webinar will consider 5 common myths in conveyancing and how you can explain these to your clients.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Boundaries - Land Registry Practice Guides say that the red line on the Land Registry plan is rarely the legal boundary. Some of the land in the red line may not be in your title and the title may include land outside the red line! But that is not because the plan is wrong - it’s correct!
• Contaminated land that is not 'Contaminated Land’. How to interpret the search result fairly and tell your client the true picture of historic contamination. What the environmental risks are in reality and what to tell the client
• Completion notices. ‘It's 2.01pm and we haven't got the completion money in so we serve a completion notice on the seller - right?’ Not so fast - there could be a nightmare backfire on your client. What a completion notice does, what to tell the client, and the tricky position in chain situations
• Title insurance solves everything? Does life insurance stop anyone dying? No to both questions. What title insurance does not do, when it might be better to look at other approaches and what the client needs to realise. Also, often overlooked duties as an 'Ancillary Insurance Intermediary' under the Insurance Distribution Directive. The insurance company gets the premium and the risk stays with you
• SDLT - when is residential not residential? Not so fast - the rate could be anything from 5% to 18% on the same property. What the recent tribunal and appeal court decisions tell us about what is 'wholly residential' may be more complex and you may need to obtain specialist advice lest you end up paying the tax!

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 27th May 2026

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