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Top 5 reasons to use our service to help you find a local conveyancing solicitor in Grays

  • 1 The Grays conveyancing practitioners that are identified are dedicated to supplying the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Grays
  • 2 Grays lawyer are the key to a successful Grays conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your move
  • 3 Property lawyer conveyancing solicitors have excellent personal links with Grays selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 There is a better than average chance that the other side’s conveyancers are located in Grays - if so sets of conveyancers are likely to be less confrontational
  • 5 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these firms are often located hundreds of miles away with limited appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in Grays

Examples of recent conveyancing in Grays since June 2022*

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Transfer

of semi premises, Hove Close, RM17 6PD completing on 30/06/2022 at a price of £450,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, setting up the completion formalities

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Disposal

of terraced property, Kent Road, RM17 6DE completing on 08/07/2022 at a price of £405,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, preparing statement detailing charges

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Disposal

of semi-detached residence, Parker Road, RM17 5YW completing on 23/06/2022 at a price of £373,050. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, agreeing completion date with parties

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Sale

of terraced residence, Moss Bank, RM17 5EF completing on 04/07/2022 at a price of £630,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, ordering official copies of the title

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Grays

My fiance and I are hoping to purchase a home in Grays and have instructed a Grays conveyancing practice. Within the past 48 hours our lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with the expectation that exchange is imminent. Chelsea Building Society have this afternoon contacted us to inform me that there is now an issue as our Grays lawyer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?

When purchasing a property with the benefit of a mortgage it is conventional for the purchasers' lawyers 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 Quality 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 solicitors to act. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Grays lawyers, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.

Would the conveyancing solicitors listed on your site handle right to buy conveyancing in Grays?

We have identified a variety of conveyancing firms carrying out right to buy conveyancing Please get in touch with us to secure a conveyancing quote.

What is the optimum way to investigate if the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Grays is on the lender’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Nationwide Building Society thus spending £187.00 plus VAT in supplemental legal invoice.

Feel free to make the most of the search tool on this web page. Please choose the lender and type ‘Grays’ or your location and you will see numerous conveyancers offices in Grays or by proximity to you.

The deeds to my property are lost. The solicitors who conducted the conveyancing in Grays 4 years ago have long since closed. What are my next steps?

As long as you have a registered title the information relating to your ownership will be held by the Land Registry with a Title Number. It is easy to carry out a search at the Land Registry, find your house and order current copies of the Registered Entries for a small fee. Where the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will also normally retain a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be retrieved for £20 inclusive of VAT.

I am buying a new build flat in Grays. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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 Grays

    There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. The Vendor must covenant to keep unoccupied units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? 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.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £195,000 and found one close by in Grays I like with amenity areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it's only got 51 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Grays in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you require a mortgage that many years will likely be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the property for at least 2 years you could request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer about this matter.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Grays regulated by the SRA

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

  • Cumming & Riley, 11a High Street, Grays, Essex, RM17 6NB
  • Attwood & Co, 20 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • M. Reynolds Partnership Solicitors, 24 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • Hattens Solicitors, 90 Orsett Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5ER
  • Patrick Lawrence, 5 Railway Place, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 1AP

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Grays

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Grays specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on Leasehold Valuation Tribunal proceedings

  • Cumming & Riley, 11a High Street, Grays, Essex, RM17 6NB
  • Attwood & Co, 20 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • M. Reynolds Partnership Solicitors, 24 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • Hattens Solicitors, 90 Orsett Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5ER
  • Rex Cowells Solicitors Limited, Old Rectory Business Centre, Springhead Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8HN

Whether you are going through a divorce or breakup or simply wish to transfer your property to someone else, transfer of equity conveyancing in Grays has some of the following tasks:

  • Obtaining instructions from the appropriate parties
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Acting on behalf of the mortgage company (where applicable)
  • Agreeing the terms of the transaction
  • Drafting Transfer or approving draft Transfer
  • Negotiating amendments to the draft Transfer
  • Communicating with parties with regards to the Transfer
  • Agreeing and preparing for completion
  • Receiving and releasing funds to the appropriate parties
  • Preparing and submitting to HMRC the correct SDLT forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration formalities for the change in ownership and the home loan (where relevant) at the HMLR.

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

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