Whose lawyer are you anyway?

Many off plan properties are sold with a legal package included, in the UK a solicitor can not act for both parties because a conflict of interest may arise and everybody will end up shouting “whose lawyer are you anyway”.

 When the purchase is offered including a legal package, the lawyer will be acting for the seller, however, the risk the purchaser takes depends to a large extent on who the seller is and the local system. If you are dealing with a very large established developer in country where the system is far more straight forward than the UKt hen perhaps it’s not such a bad thing.

Getting a lawyer to act for you only is much easier than it sounds, and cost should be no more than 1.5% of property price. Appointing a lawyer is pretty much the same as in UK, when you’ve agreed to purchase a property either get in touch with us and we’ll recommend a local English speaking lawyer who we trust, or if you prefer the countries embassy will often be able to provide a list.

As with the UK, they will get in touch and take you through the process step by step.

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