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Main reasons to let us assist you choose a high street conveyancing solicitor in Knotty Ash

  • 1 Knotty Ash solicitors work in partnership with Knotty Ash estate agents, house builders, surveyors, mortgage companies and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to home movers every step of the way, with the intention of reducing administrative burdens and transaction times
  • 2 The practices listed on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing lawyers, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases each year.
  • 3 Knotty Ash conveyancers have a significant advantage when it comes to Knotty Ash conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that can affect your conveyancing
  • 4 Our site is the first site that enables you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Knotty Ash will be conducted by a solicitor on your mortgage lender’s authorised panel.
  • 5 The hallmark of our conveyancing solicitors in Knotty Ash is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) often falls short of the level of professionalism you will expect.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Knotty Ash since January 2025*

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of house property, Grange Lane, L25 5LD completing on 31/01/2025 at a price of £187,500. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, securing official copies of the title

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Knotty Ash

How do I find the right lawyer to provide a 1st class service for my conveyancing in Knotty Ash?

First ask your friends and family who they would recommend.

Second, look on the web for conveyancing in Knotty Ash. Ring a couple or more firms listed and request that they forward you their conveyancing fees and discuss your needs with the solicitor who will oversee your legal process ahead ofcommitting.

Third is to use this site to help you find the right solicitors taking into account your individual requirements including the type of property,deadlines, complications and who your intended mortgage company is. Avoid the trap of appointing £99 conveyancing in Knotty Ash

I am assisting my niece sell her flat in Knotty Ash. Will the conveyancing solicitor commission an energy performance certificate or it is for me to coordinate?

After the abolition of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was kept a compulsory element of moving house. An EPC should be to hand in advance of the property being marketed. It is not something that law firms normally organise. If you are using a Knotty Ash conveyancing practitioner they may help arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established local accredited person

My bid for a property was accepted at auction in Knotty Ash. Conveyancing is required. What is next?

Given that you are now exchanged you must instruct a conveyancing lawyer quickly as you will have a tight a fixed date to complete the conveyancing. An auction property will ordinarily have a corresponding auction pack. This will include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. If you have purchased leasehold premises the auction pack may contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing paperwork pertinent to a leasehold property. You must hand this to the solicitor working for you at the earliest opportunity. Do make sure that that you have the requisite funding in order to complete the transaction on the set completion date.

About to purchase apartment in Knotty Ash. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.

They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Knotty Ash conveyancer is on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel.

My colleague suggested that where I am purchasing in Knotty Ash I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Knotty Ash conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Knotty Ash around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Knotty Ash.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a property I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what should have been a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. Knotty Ash is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in Knotty Ash are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Knotty Ash you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Knotty Ash may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold property.

I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing lawyer in Knotty Ash for my purchase. Can I see a firm’s record with the profession’s regulator?

You can see presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations stemming from investigations from 2008 onwards. Go to Check a solicitor's record. To find information about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's record, call 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. International callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator may monitor call for training purposes.

Should one remove a deceased person's details from the title deeds for a house in Knotty Ash?

Where a Knotty Ash property is jointly owned and one of the owners dies, their name will not automatically be removed from the title deeds. You are not required to amend the title as when it comes to a sale you would simply be required to supply proof why the other proprietor is missing from the conveyance, normally this takes the form of the probate documents.

With a view to making the sale conveyancing smoother for the sale of the property you may apply to have the deceased name erased from the title by applying to HMLR with proof of the death. There is no fee from the Registry for this service.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Knotty Ash regulated by the SRA

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

  • Neil Colville Specialist Motoring Lawyer, 56 Baldwin Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside, L16 3GD
  • Dominic & Co Solicitors Ltd, 67 Moss Pits Lane, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 6XE
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • J. A. Simon & Co Ltd, 14 Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 7JB

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Knotty Ash

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Knotty Ash practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Court proceedings for possession

  • Mackrell And Thomas Limited, 144 Liverpool Road, Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside, L36 3RG
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • J. A. Simon & Co Ltd, 14 Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 7JB
  • Levins Solicitors, The Willows, 2 Rupert Road, Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside, L36 9TF

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Knotty Ash regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Knotty Ash practicing in commercial conveyancing in Knotty Ash. This will likely include advice on buying or selling a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit
  • Joanna Connolly Solicitors, 33 Cheadle Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside, L13 3AE
  • Dominic & Co Solicitors Ltd, 67 Moss Pits Lane, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 6XE
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • Bmd Law, 111 High Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 8JS
  • Victor Welsh Solicitor & Notary Public, Suite 1, Gladstone House, 2 Church Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L15 9EG

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

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