conveyancing
Title transfer process
Conveyancing is the legal process of transferring property ownership from one party to another.
The term covers all the paperwork, searches, and formalities required to complete a real estate transaction: The conveyancing took six weeks.
In British usage especially, a conveyancer or conveyancing solicitor handles these transactions professionally.
Act of finishing
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- transferMove between locations
- closingFinal stage of something
sale · purchase · assignment · disposal · acquisition · handover · execution · chain
Formal honorific or name
- deedsActions or legal titles
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- searchesMultiple seeking efforts
- encumbranceHindrance or legal claim
lien · easement · covenant · charge · mortgage · indemnity · defect · requisition
Permanent property title
- leaseholdRented property interest
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- forfeitureLoss due to breach
completion
Act of finishing
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- transferMove between locations
closing · sale · purchase · assignment · disposal · acquisition · handover · execution · chain · gazumping
title
Formal honorific or name
- deedsActions or legal titles
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- searchesMultiple seeking efforts
encumbrance · lien · easement · covenant · charge · mortgage · indemnity · defect · requisition · epitome
freehold
Permanent property title
- leaseholdRented property interest
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- forfeitureLoss due to breach
disbursements
Payments made from funds
- depositPlace for safekeeping
buyer
One who acquires things
contract
Enforceable written agreement
- searchesMultiple seeking efforts
- lawlaw, lawyer, lawyers, attorney, attorneys
- mortgagesfixed-rate mortgage, mortgage broker, adjustable-rate mortgage, mortgage payment, mortgage insurance
- UK Propertyfreehold, leasehold, estate agent, council house, terraced house
- Irish LawHigh Court, barrister, solicitor, judiciary, prosecutor
- legal professionlawyers, attorneys, solicitors, solicitor, barristers
- property transfertransfer of ownership, title, property transfer, lease, mortgage
conveyancingencumbrance
Hindrance or legal claim
foreclosure · property seizure · expropriation · condemnation · injunction
convey, conveys, convoy, conveyance, conveyed, conveyor, conveying, conveyer, convener