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Reasons to use our Bow conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Regardless other solicitors advise it may be important to attend your conveyancer to execute legal papers. Too many 3rd parties are already with an interest in a homemove without having to include the postman into the equation.
  • 2 Bow conveyancers will acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 3 Bow property lawyers have a crucial advantage when it comes to Bow conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that will impact your home move
  • 4 Bow conveyancers work in partnership with Bow estate agents, developers, surveyors, mortgage companies and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to clients every step of the way, ensuring the smoothest, most stress-free process possible
  • 5 Lawyer conveyancing lawyers have excellent personal connections with Bow estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Bow since January 2025*

Disposal

of flat Lion Mills E2 7ST, at buying amount of £680,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the vendor for signature in readiness for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

Acquisition

of flat Maltby Street SE1 3GP, purchased for £999,000. Leasehold conveyancing due diligence included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, ordering official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of apartment Goodwood Road SE14 6FE, at the agreed amount of £490,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending the transfer to the seller for execution in readiness for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties

Transfer

of house premises, Sansom Street, SE5 7RD completing on 30/01/2025 at a price of £970,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, ordering official copies of the title, sending title deeds and executed transfer to buyer’s lawyers

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Bow

I plan on purchasing a flat in Bow. My Solicitor is not listed on the bank conveyancing panel. Can I still appoint my Bow conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are not on the mortgage company list of approved lawyers?

Various options include

  • Carry on with your chosen Bow solicitor but your mortgage company will need to retain a property lawyer from their approved panel. The net result is additional fees together with potential frustration.
  • Get a fresh solicitor to conduct the conveyancing, obviously checking they are on the lender conveyancing panel.
  • Convince your lawyer to attempt to join the lender panel

In the event thatI were to buy a straightforward housein Bow for cash and dispense with a survey and no conveyancing searches how much could I expect to to save on my conveyancing in Bow?

Any savings you would gain will be limited to the disbursement for searches. A conveyancing practitioner is required to do the vast majority of work - money laundering, communicating with the sellers conveyancing practitioner, stamp duty return, register the ownership etc. A slight saving might be made by not having to register a charge but it will not be significant.

What will a local search tell me regarding the house my wife and I purchasing in Bow?

Bow conveyancing often commences with the submitting local authority searches directly from your local Authority or via a personal search company for instance Onsearch The local search is essential in every Bow conveyancing purchase; as long as you don’t want any unpleasant once you have moved into your new home. The search will supply data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications applicable to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen topic sections.

I am buying a new build apartment in Bow. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Bow

    The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose?

I am looking for a ground for flat up to £235,500 and identified one round the corner in Bow I like with amenity areas and transport links nearby, the downside is that it's only got 49 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Bow in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you need a mortgage that many years may be a potential deal breaker. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for at least 2 years you could ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the existing lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor regarding this.

My 20yr old son is about to join the property ladder, the home loan was agreed last week in principle. After the offer was accepted on house we telephoned the mortgage institution to issue the formal offer. I was shocked to discover that mortgage companies do not accept all solicitor, they have to be on a list, is this right?

Lenders ordinarily restrict either the type or the number of conveyancing practices on their panel. A common example of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that banks have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any Bow lawyer on their panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, conveyancing is not their speciality. To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime? Presumably not.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Bow

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Bow with expertise in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on Rent Act Protected, Assured and Assured Shorthold tenancies

  • Waterfields Solicitors, 445 Roman Road, Bow, London, E3 5LX
  • Shahid Rahman, 160 Mile End Road, London, E1 4LJ
  • Alcott Solicitors Limited, 172 Mile End Road, London, E1 4LJ
  • Adams Solicitors, Adams House, 129 Mile End Road, London, E1 4BG
  • Shanaz & Partners Solicitors, Unit 8, Quebec Wharf, 14 Thomas Road, London, London, E14 7AF

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Bow regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Bow with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Bow. This could include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Waterfields Solicitors, 445 Roman Road, Bow, London, E3 5LX
  • Shahid Rahman, 160 Mile End Road, London, E1 4LJ
  • Adams Solicitors, Adams House, 129 Mile End Road, London, E1 4BG
  • Shanaz & Partners Solicitors, Unit 8, Quebec Wharf, 14 Thomas Road, London, London, E14 7AF
  • Kingdom Solicitors, 53a Mile End Road, First Floor, London, E14tt, London, England, E1 4TT

Planning law solicitors in Bow regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The practices listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Bow specialising in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including tree preservation orders
  • Adams Solicitors, Adams House, 129 Mile End Road, London, E1 4BG
  • Allen & Overy (holdings) Limited, One Bishops Square, London, E1 6AD
  • Aosphere Llp, One Bishops Square, London, E1 6AD
  • Squire Patton Boggs (uk) Llp, 7 Devonshire Square, London, London, EC2M 4YH
  • Clyde & Co Llp, The St. Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AR

Neighboring Locations

Old Ford
Bow
Bromley
Mile End
Stepney
Limehouse

*Source acknowledgement: House price data produced by Land Registry as well data supplied by Lexsure Ltd.

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