My wife and I are looking to acquire a property in Camden Town and are in fact using a Camden Town conveyancing practice. Within the last couple of days our property lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. Alliance & Leicester have this evening contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our Camden Town conveyancer is not on their conveyancing panel. Is this a problem?
If you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is usual for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the bank's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Camden Town solicitors, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.
IfI was to buy a simple residential homein Camden Town for cash and have no survey and no conveyancing searches how much could I expect to to save on my conveyancing in Camden Town?
The sole saving you would make on is the Camden Town conveyancing searches. Your conveyancing practitioner is obliged to do the vast majority of work - money laundering, liaising with your sellers conveyancing practitioner, stamp duty return, register the title etc. A slight saving might be made by not needing to register a charge but it will not be significant.
What is the difference between a licensed conveyancer and conveyancing solicitor in Camden Town
Two types of professional can execute conveyancing in Camden Town namely licenced conveyancers or solicitors. Both professionals provide the legal services that required to complete the sale or acquisition of property. They are both obliged to carry out Camden Town conveyancing on similar standards and guidelines so you may be sure that your conveyancing will be professionally carried out and that all necessary procedures should be accurately adhered to.
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Kent Reliance. I assume I don't need a Camden Town solicitor on the Kent Reliance panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Am I right?
If you have finished paying off your Kent Reliance mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Kent Reliance mortgage from the register. Kent Reliance, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Kent Reliance has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Kent Reliance has instructed the Land Registry to do so
I had an offer accepted on an apartment in Camden Town on 8/9/2025, valuation was booked five days after, all came back fine. Property lawyer appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Nationwide and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. Are Nationwide entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Nationwide to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I have justdiscovered that Wolstenholmes have been shut down. They conducted my conveyancing in Camden Town for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 18 months ago. How can I establish that my home is in my name in the name of the former proprietor?
The easiest way to see if the property is in your name, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Camden Town conveyancing specialists.
I am looking into buying my first house which is in Camden Town and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Camden Town. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Camden Town area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Camden Town. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found
I am looking for a conveyancing solicitor in Camden Town for my home move. Is there any facility to check a solicitor's record with the legal regulator?
One may read presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions stemming from investigations from 2008 onwards. Go to Check a solicitor's record. To find information Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors record, call 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. For callers outside the UK, dial +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA could monitor telephone calls for training purposes.