Chapter 12 Multiple choice questions

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?

Land registry search

Bankruptcy search

Local land charge search

Land charges search

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?

Land Charges search

Local Land Charge search

Land Registry Index Map search

Bankruptcy search

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?

15 working days.

15 days.

30 working days.

30 days.