Golden-hour aerial of a completed new-build estate — solicitors for buyers of new homes in Norfolk and Suffolk

Buying a New Home

Buying a new home is exciting, but a new build often turns out to be more involved than people expect.

There’s far more paperwork than an ordinary purchase, the developer works to tight deadlines, and because the property is brand new, its title may not even be registered yet. It’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed, especially if it’s your first home. That’s exactly where we come in.

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How we make a new build feel manageable.

We unpick the detail

New-build purchases are our specialism, whether your developer recommended us or you found us yourself. We unpick the development title, the planning and the stack of documents that come with a new home, then explain in plain terms exactly what you’re buying and what you’re agreeing to. New builds come with a lot of covenants, and our job is to make sure you understand them in good time to ask questions and to meet the deadline for exchange.

We work for you, not the developer

Even when we’ve been recommended by your developer, we work for you and your lender. If you have a concern or a question, you have a real person to talk to. We keep things moving at the pace a new-build deadline demands, often progressing several parts of the purchase at once, without ever losing sight of your interests.

We make the early steps painless

We’ve also made the early steps as painless as we can. The identity and source-of-funds checks every solicitor now has to carry out can feel daunting, so we break them down and let you choose how you work with us: online through a portal that guides you, on paper, or face to face. And we’re not a conveyancing factory. Instead of a brief, automated report, you get a genuinely thorough one and someone who knows your purchase and the legal issues behind it.

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Many of our buyers are purchasing their very first home, and a complicated one at that, so patient, jargon-free guidance is simply part of what we do.

If you’re buying a new build, or just thinking about it, get in touch and we’ll talk you through what to expect. You can also see our New Homes page for the bigger picture.