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Conveyancing in Foots Cray : Keep it Local

Logical reasons to use our service to help you find a high street conveyancing solicitor in Foots Cray

  • 1 No matter what any other sites tell you it may be important to attend your lawyer to sign documents. There are various parties with involved in a conveyancing transaction without needing to include Royal Mail into the equation.
  • 2 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Foots Cray is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) sometimes falls short of the level of professionalism you would hope for.
  • 3 The practices listed on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing practitioners, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases annually.
  • 4 Property lawyer conveyancing lawyers have valuable personal connections with Foots Cray selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 5 Personal touch and pure property local knowledge are key benefits that you should seek when selecting conveyancing solicitors. Foots Cray home moves can become a lot more protracted as a result of lack of transparency between all the parties. The lawyers we work with endeavour to make sure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments quickly.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Foots Cray since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Foots Cray

Why would I instruct a Foots Cray conveyancing practice when online conveyancers are cheap by comparison?

By all means make sure that you scrutinise conveyancing costs in Foots Cray and you should seek a reasonable quote but don’t become consumed with getting the lowest priced Foots Cray conveyancer. Appointing the right conveyancer can mark the difference between a seamless and a stressful home move. You need to ensure that you have expert advice from a trusted solicitor. Emails can't replace a phone discussion and can never replicate a one to one appointment. Our partner firms will find you a qualified and top rated conveyancing solicitor that will deal with your conveyancing from start to finish, giving the sort of continuity that you are unlikely to received from an internet conveyancer. Our lawyers will inform you on progress and keep you informed. Should it ever be necessary to phone the office you will be sure who to ask for and we'll endeavour to make sure that you are kept fully informed.

All was ready to complete my purchase in Foots Cray next Friday. I have now been asked to send a copy of my building insurance schedule by my solicitor as as she informs me that she is duty bound to validate that it is in order for the bank. What does the insurance need to cover?

Any lawyer on acting for lenders would need to check that the following risks are covered fire; lightning; aircraft; explosion; earthquake; storm; flood; escape of water or oil; riot; malicious damage; theft or attempted theft; falling trees and branches and aerials; subsidence; heave;landslip;collision;accidental damage to underground services;professional fees, demolition and site clearance costs; and public liability to anyone else. There are some other issues such as the level of excess that are set out in a lender’s Part 2 requirements. These requirements are not unique to conveyancing in Foots Cray.

I have been recommended a conveyancing solicitor in Foots Cray. I need to find out if they are on the Nottingham Building Society conveyancing panel. Could you advise?

The first thing to do is e-mail your lawyer and ask them whether they are on the lender panel. Alternatively you should call Nottingham Building Society who may be able to help.

This question may be naive but I am new to the home moving as FTB of a two bedroom flat in Foots Cray. Do I pick up the keys to the premises on the completion date from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will instruct a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Foots Cray?

On the day of completion you will not be required to attend the conveyancers office in Foots Cray. Conveyancing lawyers for you will transfer the purchase money to the owner’s lawyers, and once they have received this, you will be able to receive the keys from the selling Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this occurs early afternoon.

My aunt advised me that in purchasing a property in Foots Cray there could be a number of restrictions affecting the ability to carry out external alterations to a property. Is this right?

We are aware of a number of properties in Foots Cray which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to perform external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Foots Cray should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.

We had selected solicitors locally in Foots Cray on the Leeds Building Society solicitor approved list. They have just invoiced me a supplemental sum for the legal aspects of the Leeds Building Society mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee set by Leeds Building Society?

Provided it is contained in their Terms and Conditions or estimate then yes your property lawyer may charge a fee for this. The charge is not dictated by Leeds Building Society but by your Foots Cray conveyancing practitioner. Plenty of firms on the Leeds Building Society panel will charge ’dealing with mortgage’ fee but some practices incorporate it on their overall fee.

About to purchase a new build apartment in Foots Cray. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Foots Cray

    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. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. 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. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

To what extent are Foots Cray conveyancing solicitors duty bound by the Law Society to issue transparent conveyancing costs?

Contained within the Solicitors Code of Conduct are specific rules and regulations as to how the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) allow solicitors to publicise their fees to clients.The Law Society have practice note giving advice on how to publicise transparent charges to avoid breaching any such rule. Practice notes are not legal advice issued by the Law Society and is not to be regarded as the only standard of good practice a conveyancing solicitor should adhere to. The Practice Note does, nevertheless, constitute the Law Society’s perspective of acceptable practice for publicising conveyancing charges, and accordingly it’s a recommended read for any solicitor or conveyancer in Foots Cray or further afield.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Foots Cray regulated by the SRA

It is important to note that the listed firms do not limit their work for conveyancing in Foots Cray but also conveyancing throughout England and Wales.

  • Braund & Fedrick, 13 Market Parade, High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6EP
  • Strube & Co, 70 St James Way, Sidcup, Kent, London, Kent, DA14 5HF
  • Renier Gillies Limited, 25 High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6ED
  • Klr Solicitors Limited, 63a High Steet, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6DW
  • Woolsey Morris & Kennedy, 100 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7DT

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Foots Cray

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Foots Cray specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Braund & Fedrick, 13 Market Parade, High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6EP
  • Renier Gillies Limited, 25 High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6ED
  • Woolsey Morris & Kennedy, 100 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7DT
  • Pishon Gold Limited, Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6LH
  • Cader Solicitors, Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6LH

Planning law solicitors in Foots Cray regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The practices listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Foots Cray with expertise in planning law. This will likely include advice on making sure people do what the planning regulations say
  • Hadfield & Co, 1 Central Avenue, Welling, Kent, DA16 3AX
  • Apex Law Llp, 3 The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5HH
  • Batchelors, Charles House, 35 Widmore Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1RW
  • Wellers Law Group Llp, Tenison House, Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 3NF
  • A E Short, 144 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 6PG

Neighboring Locations

Lamorbey
Sidcup
Foots Cray
Ruxley
St Paul's Cray
St Mary Cray

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