The conveyancer who helped my former purchase has given a fee estimate £1150 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Greenwich. I’m hoping to downsize from a newly refurbished detached home for £250,000. Is this too much? Is it above what I should be paying for conveyancing in Greenwich?
The estimate does seem marginally overpriced. If you are happy to invest time comparing prices you might reduce the fees marginally by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you maylive to regret opting for an an untested solicitor. If is important to check the conveyancer can represent your bank. Do use our comparison tool to get a quote a Greenwich conveyancing company on the lender’s member panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Greenwich.
I am acquiring a property mortgage free in Greenwich. I have resided for the previous dozen years in Greenwich. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. Given that I have knowledge of the area and road very well should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?
Provided that you do not need a home loan, then all but one or two of the Greenwich conveyancing searches are at your discretion. Your lawyer will 'advise', no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches carried out, but he has a professional duty to do this. Do bear in mind; if you are going to dispose of the house one day, it could be of importance to your future buyer what the searches determine. Sometimes premises with apparent issues can still show up unfavourable search results. A good conveyancing solicitor in Greenwich should provide you some helpful advice here.
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Greenwich. My financial adviser suggested a property lawyer. I paid an advanced payment of £225. A few days later, the property lawyer contacted me to say that they were not on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Coventry BS panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
My offer was accepted on a property in Greenwich on 11/3/2026, valuation was booked 3 days later, all came back fine. Solicitor retained, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Leeds Building Society and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. Are Leeds Building Society entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Leeds Building Society to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
My offer on a detached house in Greenwich has been agreed to, the vendors do nevertheless have an associated purchase. The vendors have offered on somewhere, but it’s not been accepted yet, and are looking at other apartments in the pipeline. I have chosen a local conveyancing solicitor in Greenwich. What should be my next step? At what point do I apply for the mortgage with TSB?
It is normal to have apprehensions where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket prematurely (mortgage application is approx one thousand pounds, then survey, Greenwich conveyancing search charges, etc). First, you must ensure that your lawyer is on the TSB approved list. Concerning the next stages this very much dictated by the circumstances of your transaction, attraction to the property and on the state of the market. During a buoyant market some home buyers would apply for the mortgage with TSB and arrange for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their property lawyer to press on with the conveyancing in Greenwich.
My friend recommended that if I am buying in Greenwich I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Greenwich conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Greenwich around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Greenwich Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Greenwich.
I’m about to sell my garden apartment in Greenwich. Conveyancing is yet to be initiated, however I have just had a half-yearly maintenance charge demand – should I leave it to the buyer to sort out?
Your conveyancing lawyer is likely to suggest that you should clear the service charge as normal as all ground rent and service charges will be apportioned on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer unless the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. Having a clear account will assist your cause and will leave you no worse off financially.
Following months of dialogue we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Greenwich. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
Where there is a missing landlord or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the LVT to calculate the amount due.
An example of a Lease Extension case for a Greenwich residence is 73 Walerand Road in August 2012. the result of the findings of the Tribunal led to a premium to be paid for the extended lease in respect of Flat 73 in the sum of £10,040. The premium applicable in respect of Flat 85 was £5,710. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 72 years.
I previously advised by my bank that their approved solicitors work on no move no fee basis for conveyancing in Greenwich. I had a purchase fall through yet the solicitors want search fees! They say the fees are seperate!
in promising "no completion no fee" Greenwich conveyancing lawyers are waiving their charges for any work done. We must stress this is NOT an insurance scheme. Disbursements aren’t covered – where the conveyancer have to pay money out to other people, for example Greenwich local search fees