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Choosing the right solicitor is the most important decision when it comes to your East Yorkshire conveyancing

Reasons to use our East Yorkshire conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Excellent communication and pure property experience are key benefits that you should look for when choosing conveyancing solicitors. East Yorkshire home moves can become a lot more protracted because of poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers listed ensure that the lines of communication are open and act on arising issues and developments instantly.
  • 2 The companies listed on our web pages have a mix of conveyancing solicitors, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases annually.
  • 3 East Yorkshire solicitors have a significant advantage when it comes to East Yorkshire conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can impact your sale or purchase
  • 4 Chances are that the other side’s solicitors are located in East Yorkshire - if so both parties will be on good working terms
  • 5 Regardless other sites advise it may be important to attend your conveyancer to execute contracts. There are various parties with involved in a homemove without needing to include the postman into the pot.

Examples of recent conveyancing in East Yorkshire since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in East Yorkshire

My fiance and I are planning to acquire a flat in East Yorkshire and have instructed a East Yorkshire conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with the expectation that exchange is imminent. Britannia have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our East Yorkshire solicitor is not on their approved list of lawyers. Please explain?

If you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is standard for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the mortgage company. 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 Quality Scheme. Your solicitor 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 don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own East Yorkshire solicitors, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.

I am purchasing a house for cash in East Yorkshire. I have resided for the last 15 years in East Yorkshire. Conveyancing searches are exorbitant. As I have knowledge of the area and road intimately should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?

If you not getting a mortgage, then all but one or two of the East Yorkshire conveyancing searches are at your discretion. Your lawyer will 'advise', no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches done, but she is duty bound to do this. Do take into account; if you are going to dispose of the house in the future, it could be of importance to your prospective purchaser what the searches disclose. On occasion premises with functional issues can still throw up unfavourable search results. A good conveyancing solicitor in East Yorkshire should provide you some practical advice concerning this.

Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in East Yorkshire even if I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for instance where I wish to buy a shop in East Yorkshire with a loan from Chelsea Building Society?

The service is primarily there to locate domestic conveyancing solicitors in East Yorkshire but we have recorded at the end of this page some East Yorkshire commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to enquire with the company directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Chelsea Building Society

My property lawyer in East Yorkshire is not on the Barclays Approved Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my family solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the Barclays panel?

Your options are as follows:

  1. Carry on with your existing East Yorkshire solicitors but Barclays will need to use a conveyancer on their panel. This will result in additional overall conveyancing fees as well as cause frustration.
  2. Get a new lawyer to to deal with the purchase, obviously checking they are Barclays approved.
  3. Try to convince your Barclays based solicitor to try to join the Barclays panel

I used Action Conveyancing a few years past for my conveyancing in East Yorkshire. I now require my papers but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in East Yorkshire of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

As co-executor for the estate of my grandfather I am disposing of a property in Newport but reside in East Yorkshire. My solicitor (approximately 300 kilometers awayneeds me to execute a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing solicitor in East Yorkshire who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you should not be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or qualified solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are located in East Yorkshire

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What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in East Yorkshire?

Licensed Conveyancers specialise in the legalities surrounding purchasing and selling property and cover conveyancing nationwide not just East Yorkshire. When appointed a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you can expect:
  • Receive an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Enjoy the benefit of a high standard of legal services.
  • Receive your matters dealt with using care, skill and legal competence.
  • Receive a high standard of service due to your lawyer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Enjoy the benefit of a service which is accessible and responsive to your individual needs.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • To receive the standard you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Have your specific needs taken into account should a complaint be necessary.
  • Have a timeous, objective and comprehensive service where if a complaint is made about your conveyancing in East Yorkshire.

Typically, East Yorkshire conveyancing for a purchase has some of the following tasks

  • Obtaining instructions from the appropriate parties
  • Checking the title to the premises
  • Undertaking East Yorkshire conveyancing searches with respect to the title
  • Assessing draft contract and other documentation supplied by the vendor’s lawyer
  • Submitting queries with the seller’s lawyer
  • Agreeing the wording of the purchase agreement
  • Analysing replies supplied by the vendor to pre-contract enquiries
  • Agreeing the wording for a Transfer Deed for completion
  • Guiding the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (if applicable)
  • Drawing up and sending the purchaser a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion formalities
  • Preparing and submitting to HMRC the correct stamp duty forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration procedures for the purchase and the mortgage (where relevant) at the HMLR.

Domestic in East Yorkshire is a complex business, both legally and administratively. The exact order of events varies slightly, below are some of the tasks in the process.

  • Obtaining instructions from parties involved
  • Collating the documents evidencing the title to the property
  • Drafting contract and associated papers
  • Supplying draft papers to the solicitor acting for the purchaser
  • Negotiating contracts and answering further questions from the purchaser’s solicitor
  • Finalising the transfer deed
  • Answering requisitions raised by the purchaser’s solicitor
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion formalities
  • Receiving sale proceeds and sending funds to the vendor, the estate agent and paying off the mortgage (if relevant)

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

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