It might be that your purchase is a newly built house or flat on a new development by a housebuilder. Here, the price of the house or flat will likely be fixed, and no noting of interest or closing date procedure will be involved. Instead the housebuilder will send an offer in the form of a standard contract (called a builders’ missive) to your solicitor and expect you to sign up to this with no alteration of its terms. Your solicitor will explain these terms to you and seek to negotiate any necessary variations on your behalf.
Once terms have been agreed, the contract will then be finalised in the normal manner. The property will still need to be surveyed, and you will still need to arrange your loan, have the titles checked, have title to the property transferred to your name, complete the purchase, and insure the property in much the same way as described above.
However, there may be other important differences which you will need to consider: The new house or flat may not yet be built and so the date of entry may not be a specific date. If you are selling an existing property, you may have to buy your new property before you have sold your existing property, alternatively you may have to find temporary accommodation while your new property is being prepared. It is important to discuss with the builder the likely dates and consider what you will do if that date moves either forward or backward.