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Top reasons to let us assist you choose a high street conveyancing solicitor in Ivybridge

  • 1 Ivybridge conveyancers have a crucial advantage when it comes to Ivybridge conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that can affect your sale or purchase
  • 2 Over the years Ivybridge property lawyer have developed very good connections with Ivybridge local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and house builders enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of dealing with your home move in Ivybridge.
  • 3 Ivybridge lawyers work in partnership with Ivybridge estate agents, property finders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to buyers and sellers every step of the way, offering all the legal expertise and help you need
  • 4 Property lawyer conveyancing firms have very good personal connections with Ivybridge estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 5 This site is the only site offering you the ability to ensure that your conveyancing in Ivybridge will be conducted by a property lawyer on your mortgage lender’s approved panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Ivybridge since December 2025*

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Disposal

of house property, Crescent Gardens, PL21 0BS completing on 12/12/2025 at a price of £395,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities

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Transfer

of terraced premises, Savery Close, PL21 0JR completing on 14/12/2025 at a price of £332,500. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, setting up the completion formalities

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Sale

of detached residence residence, The Spinney, PL21 9TU completing on 12/12/2025 at a price of £520,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending the transfer to the vendor for execution in preparation for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s solicitor

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Sale

of house premises, Boringdon Park, PL21 9TY completing on 12/12/2025 at a price of £219,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in readiness for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Ivybridge

My husband and I are looking to purchase a home in Ivybridge and have instructed a Ivybridge conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our property lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. Norwich and Peterborough Building Society have this morning contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Ivybridge lawyer is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?

When purchasing a property with the benefit of a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' lawyers to also represent 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 property lawyer should contact your mortgage company 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 and you may continue to use your own Ivybridge solicitors, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.

I am need of leasehold conveyancing for an apartment in a relatively new development (6 years built) in Ivybridge. The vast majority the properties have already been occupied. Do I need carry out the local searches as part of conveyancing in Ivybridge?

You are opening yourself up to an unnecessary risk in failing carrying out Ivybridge conveyancing searches. Without searches you have no clarity over flooding, environmental etc which may mean you walk away due to potential problems down the line. If you are buying without a mortgage there is no legal necessity to have them, but we would strongly advise in no uncertain terms that your lawyer conducts them. Where timings and expenses are primary issues you should discuss with your solicitor about the viability of search insurance

It is is a decade since I acquired my property in Ivybridge. Conveyancing solicitors have now been instructed on the sale but I can't locate my title documents. Will this cause complications?

You need not be too concerned. Firstly the deeds may be kept by the lender or they may be in the possession of the solicitor who acted in the purchase. Secondly the chances are that the property will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you are the registered owner by your conveyancing solicitors obtaining current official copies of the land registers. Nearly all conveyancing in Ivybridge relates to registered property but in the rare situation where your property is not registered it adds to the complexity but is not insurmountable.

I am purchasing a flat and require a conveyancing solicitor in Ivybridge who is on the Chelsea Building Society solicitor. Can you recommend a local conveyancing firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Chelsea Building Society in certain locations such as Ivybridge. We dont recommend any particular firm.

I have recentlyfound out that Wolstenholmes have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Ivybridge for a purchase of a leasehold flat 12 months ago. How can I establish that my home is in my name in the name of the former proprietor?

The quickest way to check if the property is in your name, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Ivybridge conveyancing specialists.

Our conveyancer in Ivybridge has identified a a legal deficiency with the lease for the apartment we are buying in Ivybridge. The seller’s lawyers have put forward title insurance as a workaround. We are content with insurance and will pay for it. Our lawyer has advised that as he is on the lender conveyancing panel he must be satisfied that the lender is happy with this solution. Are we the client or is the bank?

The short answer to your last question is that, notwithstanding the potential for a conflict of interest, you and the bank are the client. A precondition to being on the mortgage company approved panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook conditions require your lawyer to disclose issues such as defects will the lease so that the lender can be afforded the opportunity to check with their valuer as to the extent that the value of the property is affected . Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Ivybridge

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Ivybridge practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Court proceedings for possession

  • Kings - Solicitors, 24 Fore Street, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21 9AB

What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in Ivybridge?

Licensed Conveyancers specialise in the legalities surrounding purchasing and selling property and cover conveyancing countrywide as well as Ivybridge. When appointed a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you should:
  • Receive an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Receive a high standard of legal services.
  • Be supplied with your matters dealt with using care, skill and legal competence.
  • Be supplied with a high quality of service due to your conveyancer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Receive a service which is accessible and responsive to your specific requirements.
  • You should not consider yourself discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • Not receive a service which is below the level you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Ensure your specific needs taken into account should a complaint be necessary.
  • Enjoy the benefit of a swift, impartial and comprehensive service when making a complaint about your conveyancing in Ivybridge about your conveyancing in Ivybridge.

Typically, Ivybridge conveyancing for a sale has some of the following tasks

  • Lawyer instructed by the vendor on acceptance of the offer
  • Collating the documents evidencing the title to the property
  • Drafting contract and related papers
  • Submitting draft papers to the conveyancing practitioner acting for the purchaser
  • Finalising the wording for contracts and replying to further queries from the buyer’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Agreeing the transfer deed
  • Answering requisitions submitted by the purchaser’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion of the sale
  • Accepting the sale proceeds and sending funds to the owner, the estate agent and other relevant parties (where appropriate)

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

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