A quick list of tasks for the buyer's Solicitor in Northern Ireland are:

• examination of ownership documents
 
• examination of contract
 
• making disclosure requests from the sellers Solicitor
 
• requesting and on receipt examining all necessary reports on:
  • planning status
   
  • building control Issues
   
  • roads
   
  • sewers
   
  • water
   
  • energy performance certificates
    
   
  • rights of way, access and usage
   
  • bankruptcy and court judgement details against the seller
   
  • searches in Land Registers against the property and the seller
 
• reporting to the buyer and settling details on:
  • valuation, timber and structural survey reports
   
  • fixtures, fittings and contents proposals
   
  • title details
   
  • contract proposals
 
• drafting and preparing for signature
  • transfer documents
   
  • mortgage deeds
   
  • stamp duty land tax self assessment tax returns
    
 
• having the buyer sign the
  • mortgage deed
   
  • contract
   
  • fixtures, fittings and contents lists
   
  • stamp duty land tax return (and possibly associated Power of Attorney)
 
• protecting lenders interests by checking:
  • the buyers identity
   
  • the buyer's life insurance protection is on risk
   
  • reporting to the lender on title details
   
  • reporting any adverse problems to the lender
 
• requesting
  • the deposit from the buyer and paying to the seller's solicitor
   
  • mortgage funds from the lender
   
  • the balance funds from the buyer
 
• effecting completion
  • paying the funds over on completion
   
  • paying the stamp duty land tax to the Inland Revenue
   
  • key arrangements
 
• registering in the land registry
  • ownership transfer documents
   
  • lenders mortgage documents
 
• finalising
  • closing searches on completion of registrations
   
  • collating all ownership documents and sending to lender to keep as security
   
  • closing the Solicitor's file and storing it for twelve years in case of future dispute