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Probate
The grant is the middle of the job, not the end. After it, the personal representatives collect the assets, pay what the estate owes, protect themselves against claims they cannot see, and only then hand over the rest.
Probate
Executors can apply for a grant of probate themselves. The order matters: values first, then the inheritance tax step, then the application. Here is each stage, and what the grant lets you do once it arrives.
Probate
With no valid will, the intestacy rules decide who applies and who inherits. Here is the order of entitlement, the forms, the tax step, the timings and what the grant lets the administrators do.
Leasehold
Seven checks that decide whether a flat is a good buy or a problem you inherit, where each answer is found, and what to do when one of them comes back wrong.
Ownership
What an attorney can and cannot do, what the buyer's conveyancer and HM Land Registry will demand, and where these sales go wrong.
Ownership
Sale, transfer into one name or a deferred sale, and how a court order or an agreement turns into an actual change on the register.
Remortgage
Four to eight weeks is typical, and the legal part is the shorter half. Here is what happens at each stage, whether a conveyancer is needed at all, where remortgages get stuck, and when to start so you do not land on the standard variable rate.
Wills
What happens to your home if you die without one, and the one thing a will cannot override.
Transactions
Most purchases take eight to twelve weeks from an accepted offer to the keys. Here is where the time goes, stage by stage, the four things that decide the pace, and which parts you can speed up.
Probate
What the application itself costs, what drives the rest, and where estates lose months unnecessarily.
Leasehold
Below 80 years the cost of extending rises sharply and the pool of lenders shrinks. Here is why the line exists, the routes still open, what each one costs by name, and when to act.
Probate
A way for beneficiaries to redirect an inheritance after a death, with tax effects that make the timing critical and extra steps where the asset is a property.
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