The Insider finds selling property in a dodgy area a tricky prospect
The Insider has been involved in the buying and selling of property for nearly 20 years now, and not (thank goodness) in a professional capacity. Will it shock you, gentle reader, if I reveal that I was a complete duffer at conveyancing, that I could garble a Deed of Transfer until even the Rosetta Stone could not aid in deciphering it, and that my idea of slow torture would be to have to spend my days amid stacks of foosty old documents, creating an Epitome of Title when (frankly) they might as well have been written in Aramaic for the amount of sense I made of them?
Well, it's true and there's no sense denying it; at least I am one step ahead of the game in that I have recognised this basic blind spot in my legal knowledge and steered well away from conveyancing as a professional pastime ever since.
Judging by the disciplinary pages of the Law Society's Gazette (to which I
