TA6 Property information form (6th edition) (2025)

What has changed

• The 6th edition of the TA6 replaces both the 4th and 5th editions. The roll out will follow our transition timeline.
• We’ve updated the structure of the 6th edition. It is now more similar to the 4th edition.
• Questions were added to the 5th edition to comply with material information guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT). These have now been removed.
• The 6th edition has 15 sections in total. This is 10 fewer than the 5th edition. We have removed the following sections from the 6th edition:
  • Council tax
  • Asking price
  • Tenure, ownership and charges
  • Physical characteristics of the property
  • Building safety
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Coastal erosion
  • Accessibility
  • Coalfield or mining area
• We have increased the number of questions where sellers can select ‘not known’. This is in response to feedback from sellers. More questions are also phrased as ‘are you aware…’, where a ‘no’ response is equivalent to ‘not known’.
• We have clarified that ‘you’ and ‘your’ refer to the person completing the form – whether that’s the seller or someone acting as their personal representative, attorney or trustee.  
• Feedback from user testing showed that the explanatory notes were too dense. This discouraged sellers from reading them. We have rewritten the explanatory notes to be clearer and more accessible, with better signposting and more useful examples. 

Preview of the TA6 form

You must not use this preview version with your clients.

We are sharing the preview to help you familiarise yourself with the form.

Find out how to access the full TA6 (6th edition) form.

You can also read the new TA6 (6th edition) explanatory notes.

Why we use third party suppliers

We partner with trusted third-party suppliers so solicitors and conveyancers can be confident that their clients are completing the correct property transaction form.

Our suppliers make property transaction forms accessible through systems many firms already use. This helps ensure secure delivery and more seamless integration.

Suppliers are helping us to deliver one standardised version of the TA6 that is accurate, secure and reliable.

Introductory webinar

Join us on 13 January to learn everything you need to know about the TA6 6th edition.

This online session will help you get to grips with the new form so that you can better support your clients.

Book your place at the TA6 webinar

Using a different version of the form to the other solicitor(s) acting in a transaction

Since the launch of the TA6 (5th edition), firms have successfully been taking a pragmatic approach to situations where sellers' solicitors are using the TA6 (4th edition) and buyers' solicitors want to see the TA6 (5th edition).

In the same way, firms should be able to agree the pragmatic position between them in the best interests of their clients.

Before the TA6 (5th edition) was introduced

Before the TA6 (5th edition) was introduced, the legal position was governed by the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPUTR 2008).

Since then, the CPUTR 2008 have been revoked and replaced by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC 2024).

The primary changes made by the DMCC 2024 are in relation to the enforcement of consumer protection measures by public regulators.

One change that has received attention is a power for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to issue administrative fines for consumer law infringements. Fines can be up to 10% of a company’s global turnover.

However, most of the changes made in relation to substantive consumer protection were relatively minor. The DMCC 2024 contains materially the same provisions as those in the CPUTR 2008.

As the requirements in the DMCC Act prohibit unfair commercial practices, interactions with consumers need to be free from any practice which would constitute, for the purposes of the requirements in the DMCC Act:

• an unfair commercial practice 
• a misleading action 
• a misleading omission 

All three are offences under the requirements in the DMCC Act and the penalties include:

• on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory minimum
• on conviction on indictment to a fine, or
• by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years

Commercial practices that involve ‘misleading omissions’ are prohibited by the requirements in the DMCC Act and must be considered in the context in which they occur. They involve:  

• omitting or concealing material information 
• providing material information that is unclear or ambiguous, or 
• failing to identify its commercial intent unless that is clear from the context

Part of the context in a conveyancing transaction is the relationship between you and your client.

The provision of information which the average customer needs to make an informed decision, according to the context, is taken to mean only what solicitors would be expected to provide taking into account their duty of confidentiality to their clients.

It would also be part of the context that the seller would be able to rely on the principle of caveat emptor, where applicable.

You are therefore not required by the regulations to disclose, without your client’s consent, information that is confidential, or to disclose information to which the caveat emptor principle applies. 

Many of the obligations placed on you as a solicitor under the Consumer Protection Regulations are already covered by your obligations under the SRA Standards and Regulations.

Provided that you treat consumers fairly, you are unlikely to be in breach.

After the TA6 (6th edition) is introduced

We do not believe that the legal position regarding potential liability for solicitors has changed as a result of:

• the introduction, then withdrawal, of the NTSELAT guidance, or
• the new updates contained in the TA6 (6th edition)

Sellers' solicitors

For those acting for sellers, there is no additional liability.

Depending on the retainer, contractual or tortious liability could arise under normal principles applied in the usual way in relation to any additional material information provided or omitted.

For the seller, that might be misrepresentation.

For the seller's solicitor, that might occur where, as a matter of professional obligation, there was a duty to advise the client properly regarding proper disclosure, but the solicitor failed to provide that advice. That is not an extension of liability.

In terms of criminal liability, this is very unlikely to be an issue, other than in the highly unlikely scenario in which a solicitor acting for a seller behaves towards the buyer in a way which would fall within the definition of an “unfair commercial practice”.

An example of that would be by engaging in an aggressive or threatening behaviour against a purchaser, particularly a vulnerable one.

In those circumstances, it would not matter that there is no contractual relationship between the seller's solicitor and the buyer.

Such behaviour would, in any event, be in breach of the DMCC 2024 as well as the SRA Principles and SRA Code of Conduct, mainly:

• Principle 2 (upholding trust in the solicitor's profession)
• Principle 5 (integrity)
• paragraph 1.2 of the code (not taking unfair advantage of clients and others)

Buyers' solicitors

We do not believe additional liability for those acting for buyers arises as a result of the amendments to the TA6 form.

As before the update to the TA6 form, criminal liability would only ever arise in blatant cases of aggressive behaviour or sharp practice towards either the buyer or seller, but this is most unlikely to be an issue.

The sections above address the legal position.

Seller responses to the questions in the TA6 (6th edition)

The TA6 form provides instructions to sellers to answer the questions “truthfully, completely and as accurately as you can from your own knowledge (or from information held by the owner if you are their representative)”.

If the sellers do not know about the issues covered in the TA6, they are not obliged to respond.

If sellers are only to respond using their own knowledge, how much should I help them to complete the responses?

A seller's solicitor should approach the TA6 form in the same manner as they did in respect of the previous editions.

That is, to advise the client in accordance with the “instructions for sellers” at the start of the form.

Preview of the TA7 form

You must not use this preview version with your clients.

We are sharing the preview to help you familiarise yourself with the form.

Find out how to access the full TA7 (5th edition) form.

Actioning your feedback

Your feedback highlighted the range of unique needs and challenges faced by conveyancers.

These challenges vary greatly depending on the firm you work for, which part of the country you're working in and what stage of your career you're at.

While many conveyancers recognised our intention to address the NTSELAT guidance, they felt the TA6 (5th edition) fell short of achieving this. Many also raised concerns about the form's usability.

We have learnt a lot through the consultation process. We’ve used what you told us to develop a simpler, more user-friendly form. This will help make the TA6 process as straightforward as possible for conveyancers and their clients.

Our transaction forms need to evolve to meet the changing demands of regulators, the law and market practices. We take this responsibility seriously.

But we acknowledge that we should have consulted more members about the changes to the TA6 form well in advance.

The TA6 form will continue to evolve, and we’re committed to doing better in the future. That means involving our conveyancing members in the changes that impact them right from the start.

Our commitment to members

• More consultation and advance notice before the introduction of future editions 
• Better communication, information and training on how to use new versions of the form 
• User testing and feedback for new editions of the form 
• Key changes such as improving explanatory guides 
• Better consumer education

Download our TA6 research commentary and response (PDF 332 KB)

Download the full 2CV research report (PDF 2.9 MB)

Consultation process

• August 2024: We asked conveyancing professionals to sign up to take part in the consultation. 1,232 signed up to take part.
• September 2024: 2CV Ltd carried out member engagement exercises to capture views on the wider policy changes in residential conveyancing and the TA6 form. They also spoke to participants about their experiences of using the form.
• October 2024: We delivered a series of deep dive webinars. These explored key areas of concern, including liability and digitisation. 2CV Ltd also ran online large-scale consultation workshops and external stakeholder roundtables.
• November 2024: 2CV Ltd concluded the consultation of conveyancers and sellers and delivered its independent findings.
• December 2024: 2CV Ltd concluded the consultation of decision makers and key stakeholders in the conveyancing market. We worked with 2CV to carefully analyse the huge amount of rich and detailed feedback. We will use the findings to develop a new, improved TA6 form.