Buying or selling a Home Under a Power of Attorney - All you need to know
Usually it is a parent. Sometimes a husband or wife. Now and then it is someone who has moved abroad and simply cannot be here to sign. Whoever it is, you are about to sell or buy a home on another person's behalf, and your conveyancer is going to ask you more questions than you expected. Some will feel a little personal. One or two may even feel as though you are being doubted. You are not. Or rather, it is not really about you at all. It is about the person whose home it is, who may not be in a position to speak up if something goes wrong, and it is about you too, because those same questions are what protect you if anyone ever asks what happened later. If you take one thing from this article, let it be this, tell your conveyancer about the power of attorney on the very first call. Not at the memorandum of sale stage. Not when the contract arrives. The first call. Whose home is it, anyway? The person who owns it. That sounds too obvious to say, but it shapes everything that follo...
