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Main reasons to let us help you select a high street conveyancing solicitor in Holborn

  • 1 Holborn conveyancer are the linchpin to a successful Holborn conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 2 Holborn lawyers work in conjunction with Holborn estate agents, property finders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to buyers and sellers every step of the way, ensuring the smoothest, most stress-free process possible
  • 3 Lawyer conveyancing lawyers have valuable personal links with Holborn selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 The Holborn conveyancing practitioners that are listed are committed to supplying the most cost, efficient and transparent conveyancing service to borrowers, sellers and remortgagors in Holborn
  • 5 Holborn conveyancers have a crucial advantage when it comes to Holborn conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your home move

Examples of recent conveyancing in Holborn since June 2022*

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Transfer

of flat Bedford Row WC1R 4LL, at buying price of £563,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, setting up the completion formalities

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Sale

of apartment Bedford Row WC1R 4LL, at purchase consideration of £525,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in readiness for completion, obtaining official copies of the title

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Acquisition

of apartment Bow Street WC2E 7AA, at a price of £2,307,000. Leasehold conveyancing work included: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, obtaining official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

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Sale

of apartment Millman Street WC1N 3EG, at sale amount of £700,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, ordering official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Holborn

My previous conveyancer has given a fee estimate just over a thousand pound for freehold conveyancing in Holborn. I am hoping to sell a purpose built house for £200,000. Is this over the top? Is it above the norm for conveyancing in Holborn?

The costs illustration is slightly on the high side. If you shop around you could get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by as much as £125. On the other hand, you mightlive to rue opting for an an unknown lawyer. If is important to be sure the conveyancer can act for your bank. Do utilise our search tool to find a Holborn conveyancing firm on the lender’s approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Holborn.

Last July we completed a house move in Holborn. We have since encountered a number of issues with the house which we consider were omitted in the conveyancing searches. Is there anything we can do? What searches should? have been carried out as part of conveyancing in Holborn?

The query is not clear as to the nature of the problems and if they are specific to conveyancing in Holborn. Conveyancing searches and investigations initiated during the legal transfer of property are carried out to help avoid problems. As part of the process, a seller fills in a document called a SPIF. answers turns out to be misleading, you may have a misrepresentation claim against the vendor for any losses that you have suffered. The survey should have identified any problems with the structure of the property. Assuming a detailed survey was carried out and the issues were not identified, you may have a claim against the surveyor. However, if you did not have a full survey, you may be responsible for fixing any defects that have now been noted. We would always encourage buyers to take every possible step to ensure they are completely aware of the condition of a property before purchase regardless of whether they are buying in Holborn.

Completed the sale of my flat in Holborn last February yet the purchaser is SMS messaging every few hours to moan that their conveyancer is waiting to hear from mysolicitor. What are the post completion sale legalities now that I have sold?

Following your house sale your lawyer is duty bound to deliver the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. If applicable, your solicitor should also confirm that the home loan has been paid off to the buyers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks peculiar conveyancing in Holborn.

My aunt passed away last year and as sole heir and executor I was left the property in Holborn. The house had a relatively small loan remaining of approximately £8000. I want to transfer the title deeds into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Leeds Building Society, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?

Given you intend to re-mortgage then Leeds Building Society will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Leeds Building Society mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.

I used Stirling Law several years ago for my conveyancing in Holborn. I now require my papers but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Holborn of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I am buying a new build flat in Holborn. 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 conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Holborn

    Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? 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? Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Holborn regulated by the SRA

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

  • Scott-moncrieff And Associates Limited, 88 Kingsway, London, London, Greater London, WC2B 6AA
  • Mdr, Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH
  • Mishcon De Reya Llp, Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH
  • Dawson Cornwell, 15 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4QT
  • Farrer & Co Llp, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Holborn

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Holborn specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Court proceedings for possession

  • Scott-moncrieff And Associates Limited, 88 Kingsway, London, London, Greater London, WC2B 6AA
  • Mdr, Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH
  • Mishcon De Reya Llp, Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH
  • Gulbenkian Andonian Solicitors, Suite 4.1, Fourth Floor, Sicilian House, Sicilian Avenue, London, London, WC1A 2QH
  • Dawson Cornwell, 15 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4QT

Planning law solicitors in Holborn regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The solicitors listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Holborn specialising in planning law. This could include advice on development on contaminated land
  • Mishcon De Reya Llp, Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH
  • Farrer & Co Llp, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH
  • Fladgate Llp, 16 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DG
  • Olswang Llp, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6XX
  • Teacher Stern Llp, 37-41 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4JH

Neighboring Locations

Holborn
St Giles
High Holborn
Covent Garden
 Aldwych

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

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