Whether buying to let or to sell, you will need a solicitor who is well versed in property conveyancing. Viceroy Invest will be happy to recommend solicitors to act for you, but you are under no compulsion to use them. If you have a pre-existing relationship with a particular firm, you may well prefer to continue with them. There are some intricacies involved in buying off plan, however, which many solicitors will not have experienced before, such as gifted deposits, assignable contracts, and stage payments, though they are not particularly hard to master.

Once you start to search for tenants you need to be aware of the legislation governing tenancy agreements. For this reason alone, a number of landlords use letting or managing agents simply to ensure everything is as it should be.