What happens between exchange and completion?
25/11/2022
(Last Updated: 15/11/2023)
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What happens between exchange and completion depends on who you are in the chain. The seller, buyer and their respective solicitors all have jobs to do that need to be finalised before completion. We have a to-do list for everyone involved so you know what everyone needs to do.
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Written by:
Andrew Boast
Andrew started his career in 2000 working within conveyancing solicitor firms and grew hands on knowledge of a wide variety of conveyancing challenges and solutions. After helping in excess of 50,000 clients in his career, he uses all this experience within his article writing for SAM, mainstream media and his self published book How to Buy a House Without Killing Anyone.

Reviewed by:
Caragh Bailey
Caragh is an excellent writer in her own right as well as an accomplished copy editor for both fiction and non-fiction books, news articles and editorials. She has written extensively for SAM for a variety of conveyancing, survey and mortgage related articles.
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