arch.ia

A solution aimed at purchasers of investment-ready residential property, built for your future by solving tomorrow’s problems today.

Buying an investment property is one of the biggest decisions we might make in our lifetimes, but often it is one of the most stressful.
Arch.ia has been designed to take this stress away, delivering legal solutions differently.
This solution is suitable for:
• investment property purchases
• development opportunities

Arch.ia offers a unique, affordable and efficient conveyancing solution, perfect for UK and international purchasers in search of a seamless process for their investment purchase.

The arch.ia team are specialists in conveyancing at scale.

By acting for multiple purchasers, simultaneously, we ensure every buyer receives a first class service at a fraction of the cost.

By working closely with development sales teams, we’re able to gain a thorough understanding of the Developer’s documentation – building confidence from the start. This early engagement means due diligence is under way even before a plot is under offer.

A fully digital onboarding process ensures clients have sight of every step of the process, wherever they are in the world.

We recognise working proactively rather than reactively with a law firm will be unfamiliar for many of our clients. Through our investment in technology, we are able to drive forward the process of investment acquisition, ensuring all parties in the transaction benefit from an efficient and frictionless experience. We consistently achieve exchange within 28 days.

How are we different?
  • We look at the sale and purchase process as a solution that we provide to our clients.
  • We do our due diligence early – saving seller and purchaser time and money.
  • Dedicated teams for conveyancing and client management ensure continuous communication and client care.

In order to deliver that solution effectively, we combine the right legal advisors with the best technology:

1. Save time with an experienced team and intelligent legal solutions
Familiarisation with the Developer’s standard
documentation:

All too often lawyers can leave the leg work of thoroughly reviewing the client’s legal title until far too late in the conveyancing process. This creates delay and frustration for everyone involved. Our team invests the time, up front, to thoroughly understand the title to the property and how it may impact on both the seller and the purchaser.

This allows us to deliver a far quicker and more efficient process – we are satisfied that the purchase will be able to progress far quicker than normal – in short, we solve problems before you even know that there is a problem.

An established team specialising in
residential property work:

Our team of lawyers have worked together for a number of years, specialising in residential property work – with several years experience of delivering over 1,000 completions per year we have the knowledge and skill set to deliver effectively and eff ciently for our clients.

2. Investing in our technology
Client Onboarding

We recognise that this is often a pain point for our clients – the process of checking identity for anti money laundering purposes as well as just engaging with a firm of solicitors is often far more cumbersome than it needs to be.

We have streamlined this process massively to the benefit of our clients.

Our onboarding partner, Legl, will work with our clients to digitally conduct all checks that are required within days of sending out the onboarding link. Through this process, our client will be cleared both for anti money laundering and identity checking but also will be able to formally engage Arch Law Limited as their solicitors through electronic signature. This process with Legl is also applied to identifying source of funds later in the transaction when the client is looking to complete.

Matter Management System:

We recognise that in order to process a purchase quickly and efficiently, a workflow needs to be designed and built into the best technology platform. We work with our clients on each development to agree the most appropriate workflow and then build this into our preferred matter management system, Redbrick. This ensures that we are able to progress the matter as quickly and efficiently as possible.

An established team specialising in
residential property work:

At the start of each transaction our clients complete a mandate which allows us to deduct our pre-agreed payments as we go along rather than our clients worrying about whether they are up to date or not. This provides full visibility and clarity on both sides.

An established team specialising in
residential property work:
3. Continuous communication
SMS Notification
We recognise that there is nothing more frustrating than not knowing what is going on with a purchase. Our SMS notification service allows our clients to be notified on their mobile phone each time we hit a milestone in their purchase.
Online Access
Our clients can also obtain online access through our App to understand where their purchase is up to on any given day which allows for real time monitoring and feedback.
An established team specialising in
residential property work:

Our SMS notification service means you’ll know immediately you hit a milestone in your purchase process.

Lender panels
Some of our clients require mortgages to complete their purchases. We work with The Lender Exchange Network and LMS, two of the leading panel managers in the UK, to ensure that we can work with the vast majority of UK based lenders to enable access to funds for our clients.
Quality Assurance
The Law Society operate an accreditation scheme called the Conveyancing Quality Scheme which provides a recognised quality standard for residential conveyancing practices. We are accredited through this scheme which provides assurance of quality to our clients.
An established team specialising in
residential property work:
A little about us

At arch.law we combine leading edge technology with
high quality lawyers and advisors to deliver legal
solutions differently for our clients.

 

We recognise that law is not simply a service – our
client need a solution that allows them to rectify their
problem or maximise their opportunity.

What we do

Delivering legal solutions, differently

Our clients’ needs continue to develop in this ever-changing fast-moving world. Their needs are rarely the same – they have issues and opportunities which need solutions rather than services.

Buying a house is one of the biggest decisions that we all make in our lifetimes but often it is one of the most stressful. arch.convey has been designed to take this stress away, delivering these solutions, differently.

Combining the right type of resource with technology to achieve the best results for our clients we provide support to all types of clients who are looking to invest in real estate investment opportunities.

We recognise working proactively rather than reactively with a law firm, will be unfamiliar for many of our clients. Through our investment in technology, we are able to drive forward the process of investment acquisition, ensuring that all parties in the transaction benefit from an efficient and frictionless experience. We work collaboratively with our clients to ensure they receive the best solutions delivered in the most appropriate way.

Our team

Martin McQueen

Head of arch.ia – arch.portfolio member.

Martin heads Arch Investment Acquisitions, a specialist team of lawyers and legal advisors providing property investment acquisition services to world-wide Buy-to-Let investors in the UK. Martin is dual qualified in Scotland and England, so can provide a one-shop stop for clients who wish to invest in or develop Property on either side (or both sides) of the border.  Relentlessly commercially-focused, Martin and his team will always tailor their approach to your transactional aims. A proud husband and father, Martin’s wider interests include coaching, mentoring and workplace mental health (having become a qualified Mental Health First Aid practitioner in 2018).

Lindsey McQueen

Operations Director of arch.ia – arch.portfolio member

Lindsey is the Operations Director at Arch Investment Acquisitions. Arch I.A. is a property investment acquisition solution, where we combine leading edge technology with high quality lawyers and advisors to deliver legal solutions differently for our clients. We recognise that law is not simply a service but a platform to give our clients the solution that allows them to rectify their problem or maximise their opportunity. Having practised law at a senior level for over 18 years, her focus at Arch I.A. is to develop long term operational strategies by providing a different approach to client property transactions from the traditional law firm. Arch I.A. is built to give our clients the service they need, the way they want it.

Find out more

www.arch.law

delivering legal solutions, differently