Choosing your conveyancing lawyer when selling
What a selling lawyer does, what they do not do and questions to ask before you pick one.
- Your lawyer reviews the sale agreement, discharges your mortgage, manages settlement and deals with title issues.What does Settlement mean?Settlement day is the day you pay the balance of the purchase price and the property becomes yours. settled.govt.nz (Te Kāhui Kāinga Ora / REA): Settling on settlement day
- They do not negotiate price or decide whether you should accept an offer. That is your decision with your agent.
- Ask how fast they reply to urgent questions, and get it in writing if it matters to you.
- Ask who will actually do the work, and whether a senior lawyer reviews the agreement.
- Ask about charges for extra work, and what you pay if the sale falls through.
Check the details. Compare two or three lawyers yourself on fees and experience. You can check a lawyer with the NZ Law Society.
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Shortened from a Berry article first written 2026-05-18. Figures we could not check against a public source were taken out. This is general information, not advice.