Residential Instruction Form – Sale and Purchase

Please use the form below to help us get things started. The details you give will be used to draft legal documents so it is important that they are accurate and should match the details in your identification documents. If you are joint sellers, buyers or borrowers please also include the other person’s details in the ‘second client’ section. Where information is identical for both of you (e.g. address) please select ‘same.’

Are you joint sellers, buyers, or borrowers?

Section 1 - Contact Details

First Client

Title*Required

Forename*Required

Middle name/s

Surname*Required

Date of Birth*Required

Address Line 1*Required

Address Line 2

Town/City*Required

County*Required

Postcode*Required

Email*Required

Preferred Contact Number*Required

National Insurance Number*Required

Occupation*Required

Second Client

Title*Required

Forename*Required

Middle name/s

Surname*Required

Date of Birth*Required

Address Line 1*Required

Address Line 2

Town/City*Required

County*Required

Postcode*Required

Email*Required

Preferred Contact Number*Required

National Insurance Number

Occupation*Required

Other Contacts

What is the name of the person at Roythornes that you are dealing with?*Required

Please confirm who recommended you to Roythornes or the reason for your instruction*Required

Section 2 - Property being purchased

Are you buying jointly with someone else?

Address Line 1*Required

Address Line 2

Town/City*Required

County*Required

Postcode*Required

Price Agreed*Required

Estate Agent name and branch

Estate Agent Telephone Number

Are you having a mortgage?

What is the use / reason for purchase?

Have you paid a reservation deposit?

Is there a deadline for exchange of contracts?

Section 3 – Property being sold

Are you selling jointly with someone else?

Address Line 1*Required

Address Line 2

Town/City*Required

County*Required

Postcode*Required

Agreed Sale Price*Required

Estate Agent name and branch

Estate Agent Telephone Number

Commission Agreed (Please also state if this includes or excludes VAT)*Required

Are we authorised to pay Estate Agent

Do you currently have a mortgage?

Do you have any other loan charged to your property

If sold privately, please provide name and address of purchaser

Section 4 – Other Occupiers

Other than yourselves please give the names of all persons over 17 years of age who live with you, or who will live with you in your new home:

Occupier 1

Occupier 2

Occupier 3

Occupier 4

Section 5 - Source of Funds and Wealth

As a law firm we operate within the money laundering regulated sector and as such we are required to undertake checks into a client’s source of funds and source of wealth in order to be satisfied that our clients’ financial and other assets have not been obtained through criminal activity. Please understand this is a regulatory obligation on our part and complete details of your source of funds and source of wealth below.

Source of Funds

The funds for your transaction can come from a number of sources such as savings, an inheritance, a gift from a relative, company dividends, the sale of another property, shares or a compensation award. Please provide evidence of the source of your funds / “source of balance” including copy bank statements and/or savings statements.

Please note we will be unable to accept any funds into our client account until we are in receipt of satisfactory evidence of your source of funding

Purchase Price*Required

Sum borrowed under mortgage (if applicable)*Required

Proceeds of any related sale*Required

Balance*Required

Source of Balance*Required

Please upload all evidence of source(s) of balance

Balance Evidence 1*Required

Balance Evidence 2 (optional)

Balance Evidence 3 (optional)

Balance Evidence 4 (optional)

Do you have any funds from a third party?

Monies from a third party*Required

Full Name*Required

Address Line 1*Required

Address Line 2

Town*Required

County*Required

Postcode*Required

Relationship to you*Required

If from a third party, please select the reason below*Required

Source of Wealth

Your source of wealth relates to how you acquired your total wealth not just the funds for this transaction for example, what activity has generated or contributed to the accumulation of your financial or other assets.

Please categorise details of your source of wealth below, by ticking the applicable source(s) and providing the details:

Inheritance

Investments

Ownership of a business

Salary from employment

Other

Declaration

Please sign to confirm that we may contact the third-party provider of this money as we have obligations to carry out Money Laundering Checks on all persons providing funds, and to recommend where appropriate that they seek independent legal advice.

I / We hereby authorise Roythornes to contact the party providing part of my purchase money:

Signed:*Required

Section 6 - SDLT Liability

How many residential properties will you own (anywhere in the world) at the end of the day of Completion of this purchase (including any residential properties owned by your spouse/civil partner)?*Required

Is this property purchase intended to replace your main residence which is being sold simultaneously with the purchase?*Required

If this purchase is intended to replace your current main residence which has not yet been sold, the higher rate SDLT is payable on completion of your purchase. A refund of the difference between the normal rates and the additional Higher Rate SDLT can be claimed from HMRC provided the sale of your former main residence completes within 3 years of your purchase.

To be eligible for First Time Buyer relief up to £425,000 can you confirm all purchasers have NOT at any time had an interest in any property anywhere in the world. This includes previous acquisitions by inheritance or gift, or by a financial institution on behalf of a person under an alternative scheme. The property must also be occupied as your residence to claim the relief.

Please confirm that you are eligible*Required

If you’re not present in the UK for at least 183 days (6 months) during the 12 months before your purchase, you are ‘not a UK resident’ for the purposes of SDLT.

Please confirm you are a UK Resident*Required

Declaration

Please read the statement below and tick the checkbox to confirm:

I/We certify that the above information is correct and that Roythornes Limited may utilise this information when preparing the SDLT return on my/our behalf and submitting SDLT payment on completion:

Signed:*Required

Verification of Identity

Our professional rules require us to undertake verification of identity checks for which we need to collect certain information from you. In order to securely and efficiently complete this process you will receive an email from Roythornes Solicitors with the e-mail . This e-mail will contain a link inviting you to provide details and evidence of ID. The process is quick and easy to use and can be completed on a computer or mobile phone.

When you click on the link you will be taken to the Legl system, which will guide you through the process. For more information please see Protecting your identity - Roythornes Solicitors.

Section 7 - Security

Please enter a “Safe” word below. We will use this to verify your identity if during the transaction we request sensitive information from you such as your bank details.

Security “Safe” Word:

Section 8 – Terms and Conditions of Business

Please read the statements below and e-sign the declaration and agreement

The Lawyer dealing with your case is qualified to advise you on property law. You will need to consult other appropriately qualified professionals for advice on non-legal matters such as the structural condition of a property, its services and market value and tax liabilities. For advice on separate legal issues such as matrimonial settlement or making a Will please ask and we will arrange for the appropriately qualified lawyer to contact you.

Confidentiality

Everything we discuss with you is dealt with in the strictest confidence. However, in property transactions certain information must be passed to other parties involved. Your instructions to us will be taken as your authority to communicate such information when we consider it appropriate, to ensure the successful implementation of your instructions.

Section 9 - Declaration and Agreement

I/We confirm that the information given in this Instruction Form is correct to the best of my / our knowledge

I/We instruct Roythornes Limited to carry out the legal services on my/our behalf in accordance with the Roythornes standard Terms and Conditions of Business

I/We authorise Roythornes Limited to provide copies of my/our proof of identity to the developer (if any) or our lender if necessary

I/We authorise Roythornes Limited to obtain my/our property title deeds (sale / re-mortgage cases only)

Where a property is to be held jointly, we the undersigned agree and authorise Roythornes Limited to accept and act on the instructions from any joint owners of the property and we agree to be bound by those instructions.

I/We authorise Roythornes Limited to contact my/our Mortgage Lender to obtain a redemption figure

Signed:

*Required

Next Steps

Once completed, this form is automatically sent to our Residential Conveyancing Team for processing. In addition, our Business Support Team will also carry out the necessary checks to verify your ID. Please note it may be necessary for further checks to be carried out in which case additional identification or information may be required.

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Complaints Procedure

Our aim is to provide you with a service you should be fully satisfied with. We genuinely welcome your comments and any recommendations you may have to improve our service. In the unfortunate event that you are dissatisfied with our service, and you cannot resolve matters with the person dealing with your transaction, please ask to speak to their supervisor who will explain our complaints procedure and deal with your complaint.

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