Who are Pali?

Pali Ltd (Property and Land Information) was formed in 1999 to provide a one-stop shop for the supply of conveyancing searches and other property-related reports anywhere in England and Wales to property professionals at a competitive price.

Pali has developed a website to enable clients to place orders and view these completed orders giving an effective case management system and a way to check the prices before placing an order. This has generated a lot of business for Pali franchisees.

What Pali Do

Pali (Property and Land Information) facilitates conveyancing searches to help solicitors manage the transfer of property from seller to buyer. Pali don’t actually carry out the conveyancing itself so no licenses or qualifications are required to own this franchise.

What is Conveyancing?

Conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of property from one person to another.

Under English law agreements are not legally binding until contracts are exchanged.

The normal practice is for the buyer to negotiate an agreed price with the seller then organise a survey and have the solicitor (who will use Pali) carry out their searches and pre-contract enquiries.

Conveyancing is usually designed to ensure that the buyer secures title to the land together with all the rights that run with the land, and is notified of any restrictions in advance of purchase.

Market Value

• £150 million of conveyancing searches are carried out each year in the UK.
• Most of these required a Local Authority Search which Pali would have been able to carry out on behalf of the solicitors involved.

Pali Franchise Owners’ Role

The Pali opportunity is essentially a hands-on ‘white collar’ franchise. It is the franchisee’s role to develop the business in such a way that clients will always look to Pali as the preferred provider of property search services.

Advantages of becoming a Pali franchisee

• Run your own small business yet share in many of the advantages and economies available to a larger company.
• The initial training programme compensates for areas of relative inexperience.
• Further training, advice and guidance will also be provided on an ongoing basis.
• The franchisor has spent a considerable amount of time and effort refining the Pali processes
• Franchisees benefit from national and regional advertising campaigns
• Professional marketing assistance is available to Pali franchisees to help run their own high-quality, lead-generating local advertising campaigns.

Pali’s Clients: Who Are They?

Pali are mainly business to business and their core clients are solicitors.

Every time a solicitor is involved in a commercial, residential or land transaction they will invariably require a search of the Local Land Charges Register. The purpose of the search is to identify any charges against the property that could affect it either currently or in the future.

All property transactions requiring outside funding will require a search and it is only when a purchase is totally self-funded that a purchaser may choose to forgo the search process. However, this is extremely unlikely as they may not invest with the vendor.