Chapter 12 Multiple choice questions

Pre-completion procedures
You are instructed by a client, Trash Clothing Limited, who have exchanged contracts to buy a retail shop in a shopping development in the Centre of Chester. Completion is set by the contract for next Friday. It is a registered leasehold title and your client is a cash buyer. Which of the following searches will you normally make before completion?

You are instructed by a client, Ms Meera Patel, who has exchanged contracts to buy a semi-detached house in Hounslow to the west of London. Completion is set by the contract for next Thursday. It is a registered freehold title and your client is buying with the aid of a mortgage from the Halifax Plc for whom you also act. Which of the following searches will you make normally before completion?

The final pre-completion search in unregistered land gives priority to a purchaser making the search of a fixed period of time. How long is this?

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