Purchasing a property (especially if you are purchasing for the first time) can be both exciting and daunting. Our residential property team are here to help guide you through the process and to ensure you are successful in achieving a successful outcome. We understand the importance of communicating with everyone involved in the process, the importance of acting quickly to minimise delays and most importantly in providing a quality and value for money service. A purchase may involve a chain of transactions which extends beyond your and our immediate control. Timing, negotiation and sometimes a sense of humour all play a vital part in the process. If you are both buying and selling, we will help co-ordinate the necessary timescales. To ensure the most efficient purchase we advise that you contact us immediately prior to placing the property on the market, this allows us to provide you with impartial advice at the earliest possible stage in the transaction and will reduce the risk of problems occurring in the later stages. Having a realistic assessment of the costs and timescales involved in the process at the outset helps to minimise anxiety and uncertainty later on. Staying informed throughout the process is essential to your understanding of the timescales involved and we provide all clients with an online tracking service which allows you to monitor your transaction from your own computer and at your own convenience.

In the current uncertain financial climate we would strongly advise that you should contact an independent mortgage broker who can fully research the mortgage market on your behalf and identify a product which best suits your requirements. We work closely with the Mortgage Store in St Albans and Milton Keynes. They are an independent broker who can act for you either in relation to a purchase or a remortgage. They do not charge an arrangement fee in respect of the work they do for you. In addition to mortgage advice they also offer a full range of insurance products including life, critical illness and buildings/contents cover. If you require further information in respect of their services then we would suggest you log onto their website www.the-mortgagestore.co.uk.

The residential property team consists of Andrew Orriss and Haqib Iqbal in our Luton office; Ian Simpson, Jane Joseph, Mandy Cowen and Trevor Kidd in our Harpenden office; Caroline Hume, Nicola Green and Carly Inskip in our Milton Keynes office; and Caroline Hume and Nadia Mirza in our Northampton office.