Interactive UK property auction pre-solicitor checklist with an educational red-flag index. It records what the user has checked but does not upload, read, verify, or interpret legal-pack documents. Use it to prepare questions for a solicitor before bidding.
Auction legal pack pre-solicitor checklist
Interactive UK property auction pre-solicitor checklist with an educational red-flag index. It records what the user has checked but does not upload, read, verify, or interpret legal-pack documents. Use it to prepare questions for a solicitor before bidding.
Calculation formula and denominator
No diagnostic score is produced. The checklist records present, missing and unresolved pack items before a solicitor reviews the documents.
How to Use This Checklist
- Confirm tenure (freehold or leasehold) and any leasehold terms, ground rent, and service charge history.
- Read the special conditions of sale carefully: buyer's premium, additional fees, completion period, vendor obligations.
- Review local authority search results for planning, enforcement, road schemes, and contaminated land notices.
- Check title for restrictive covenants, easements, rights of way, and any third-party rights.
- Review any existing tenancies, deposit registration, arrears, and notices served.
- Confirm planning history, building regulations completion, and any unauthorised works.
- Estimate auction-specific costs (buyer's premium, completion deadlines, bridging finance) and bake them into your bid limit.
- Discuss every red flag with your solicitor before bidding.
Worked example
A missing local search remains an unresolved question even when the title and special conditions are present; do not tick it as safe or infer the legal outcome.
Method and sources
Reviewed: 26 August 2026
- List the documents supplied.
- Record special-condition fees and deadlines.
- Give the pack and questions to an auction-experienced conveyancer before bidding.
Sources
Assumptions and limitations
- Bricks & Yield does not upload, read or interpret the pack.
- Only your solicitor can advise on the legal effect of the documents.
