12–16
weeks for an average case today
Law Society / industry data, 2026
We hand your firm files that are already ID-verified, fully packaged, searches ordered, and tied to a committed buyer — so your fee-earners do the legal work, not the chasing. Here's exactly how the process changes on your side of the desk.
Your fee-earners are good at the law. What eats their week is everything around it: chasing missing forms, re-raising enquiries against vague answers, waiting on searches, and doing full files on deals that collapse before completion. We built our system to remove exactly those costs before a case ever reaches you.
Local authority searches and chain coordination account for most of the calendar — not legal work. Your file sits open, WIP ages, and your team chases updates that aren't ready.
Searches: 2–8 weeks of waitingIncomplete or vague answers on property forms trigger rounds of additional enquiries — the most common avoidable delay, and pure admin time your firm can't bill in full.
Enquiry loops: days–weeks eachAround a third of agreed sales fall through. Every collapse is a file your team worked and won't be paid for in full — a cost most firms quietly price into every other client's fee.
~30% of cases at riskID checks, source-of-funds, client care packs, opening the matter from scratch — necessary, repetitive, and largely done before a single point of law is considered.
Onboarding: hours per matterEach stage shows your firm's actual working time against waiting time — and what disappears entirely when the case arrives pre-packaged. This is the real measure of how much lighter each matter becomes.
The hidden cost of a slow file isn't just weeks — it's the volume of calls, emails and update requests your team fields per matter. When the file arrives complete and the buyer is committed, most of that traffic simply never happens.
Indicative per-matter volumes shown to illustrate the difference a complete, committed file makes. Status updates flow through a shared system, so routine "where are we?" traffic is replaced by live visibility.
Buyer and seller ID-checked and onboarded through our platform before the matter reaches you.
Property information and disclosures captured upfront, structured to pre-empt the usual enquiry loops.
Local, water and environmental data initiated at listing — the slowest stage runs before instruction, not after.
A reservation agreement with the buyer's fee at stake — dramatically reducing the chance the file aborts on you.
Title, tenure, flood risk, EPC, council tax and listed-building status compiled and attached from the outset.
Referrals and case status flow through a shared system — no email ping-pong, no lost instructions.
When a buyer or seller pays for a days-not-months completion, that premium funds the work of dropping everything and completing a fully-prepared file at pace. You're paid an agreed expedite fee on those cases — on top of your panel rate — because you're delivering a genuinely faster result on a file that's ready for it.
We're not asking for a discount for its own sake. We're removing two of the three things that make a case expensive to run — abortive work and admin drag — and asking that the saving is shared with the buyer and seller who chose the faster route.
A per-case fee that reflects the genuinely lower cost of running a pre-packaged, low-abort file — set with you, not dictated.
A steady flow of files that arrive ready and rarely abort — plus an expedite uplift on every fast-tier completion you deliver.
The buyer and seller complete in days to weeks. You look outstanding to a client you never had to chase. We keep the pipeline full.
Tell us your current average case time, your typical fee, and your abort rate — and we'll show you, case by case, exactly what changes when the files arrive prepared. If the maths works for your firm, we'll agree a panel rate and start sending you cases.
Or email contact@purchasesecured.com — we'll come back to you within one working day.
Timings, completion figures and volumes cited on this page are national averages drawn from published 2026 UK conveyancing data (Law Society / industry data, Pine, Propelr, HomeOwners Alliance) and indicative operational estimates. Individual matters vary by property type, tenure, chain and local authority search turnaround. Working-time and communication estimates illustrate where a prepared file removes non-legal effort and are not a representation of any specific firm's actual figures. Any panel arrangement, including expedite fees, is agreed per firm and subject to your own SRA/CLC compliance and independent professional judgement; all referral relationships are disclosed to clients.