NLIS offers dozens of searches including Personal Local Authority Searches which are available electronically on the NLIS Ltd website. Personal Local Authority Searches can be paid for online by the casual buyer or an account can be opened for the regular buyer. NLIS is the fastest way to order conveyancing searches online including Personal Local Authority Searches, Drainage & Water Searches, Environmental Reports, Mining Reports and many more!

Ordering searches on NLIS

When you use our quick, easy, user-friendly ordering system to order Personal Local Authority Searches for example, there are only five simple steps before your order is complete. The start of the process involves entering the postcode of the property then our system will automatically find the council. Once you have selected whether the property is residential or commercial, step two involves selecting the searches you wish to order such as Personal Local Searches. Step three entails entering the property details as well as your address for invoice purposes and selecting your method of payment. The fourth step is where you will be able to pay for your searches securly and step five will confirm your order has been placed.

Once you have ordered searches including Personal Local Authority Searches on the NLIS website we are confident that you will never go back to your previous way of obtaining a conveyancing searches.

Personal local authority searches from nlis

NLIS can provide you with Personal Local Authority Searches for all councils in England and Wales. Personal Local Authority Searches are generally required by solicitors & conveyancers acting on behalf of someone wishing to purchase a property. Personal Local Authority searches contain information compiled after an examination of council records and various other procedures. Personal Local Authority Searches provide environmental information on a property such as planning applications, building regulations, traffic schemes, contaminated land, radon gas and Local Land Charges. When you order Personal Local Authority Searches on NLIS, you will receive a search that is Search Code compliant, displays the Search Code logo and are backed by an individual £2m Search Warranty including run-off cover. NLIS Personal Local Authority Searches are also regularly audited by the Property Codes Compliance Board (PCCB) and are members of CoPSO and IPSA.

About NLIS

Our company was formed in 1999 to provide a service to solicitors which included the provision of conveyancing searches throughout England and Wales. In those days the majority of conveyancers and solicitors purchased their searches directly from the councils. This was a laborious, confusing and time a consuming task with over three hundred and fifty separate councils, all with differing systems and prices which is why our service was so popular. Many of the councils were reluctant to develop their online ordering and delivery systems so in the early 2000’s a new system was developed to centralise the ordering, delivery and payment for local authority searches to be known as NLIS.

In February of 2003 we decided that we could do better so NLIS Ltd was formed with the intention of providing a fully electronic system for both ordering and delivering Personal Local Authority Searches with account facilities for payments. As the conveyancing professionals became hungry for more information further searches and reports were made available such as; Drainage & Water Searches, Environmental Reports, Mining Reports and many more.

Many conveyancers disliked the price some councils charged for their searches so we decided to give the option of our own regulated searches know as Personal Local Authority Searches governed by the PCCB, the CoPSO code of practise and carrying indemnity insurance. The ability to choose the various reports from one site, pay after thirty days or instantly and receive all the reports electronically has proved very popular.

We are constantly looking for more reports to add to our selection and encourage our clients to identify further products for us to add. If you are a regular purchaser of any of the items on our product list and would like an account just contact us and we will be delighted to provide the facility. Conversely, if you would like to purchase a one off report, simply enter the address of the property to find a selection of reports available including Personal Local Authority Searches which can be purchased without an account, online, by credit or debit card.