Conveyancing Timeline: What Happens and When

Your offer was accepted, the solicitor is instructed, and now everything goes quiet and nobody tells you what is happening. Give the tenure, agreed price and lender, and you get the conveyancing timeline mapped stage by stage: draft contract, searches, mortgage offer, exchange and completion, with what each stage means and who is doing it. For buyers who hate being kept in the dark.

My offer has been accepted on a {FREEHOLD_OR_LEASEHOLD} property at {AGREED_PRICE}. I've instructed a solicitor and my mortgage in principle is with {LENDER_NAME}. I want to understand exactly what happens next.

Map out the full conveyancing timeline from offer acceptance to completion. For each stage, draft contract, searches, mortgage offer, exchange, and completion, explain what is happening legally, who is responsible, what can cause delays, and roughly how long each stage takes. Highlight the key risk windows where deals most commonly fall through and what I can do to keep things moving. Indicate where my own action is required versus waiting on others.