It is the buyer’s solicitors responsibility to investigate the title of the property and undertake searches when acting for the buyer in a transaction.
Caveat emptor is the principle that the buyer must ‘beware’ i.e. he is responsible for ensuring he is purchasing what was contracted. So to do this, the buyer’s solicitor will investigate in depth.
On the #LPC, we go through various searches and enquiries raised, what the results reveal and what follow up queries the solicitor will raise. Below is the table I created when revising for this topic:
