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If you have reached us by Googling ‘Conveyancing in Needham Market’ follow your intuition — you will have a better house move where you instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Needham Market.

Reasons to use our Needham Market conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Needham Market lawyer are the key to a successful Needham Market conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 2 The hallmark of our conveyancing solicitors in Needham Market 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.
  • 3 The Needham Market conveyancing practitioners that we work with are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Needham Market
  • 4 Experience means that Needham Market solicitor have developed excellent connections with Needham Market local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of handling your house sale or purchase in Needham Market.
  • 5 Needham Market lawyers have a crucial edge when it comes to Needham Market conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your conveyancing

Examples of recent conveyancing in Needham Market since January 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Needham Market

I have given 8 weeks notice to my current landlord and must vacate my let out property in Needham Market by the end of next month. Conveyancing for my house purchase has just started. How realistic is it to complete in 4 weeks as I wish to avoid having to find short term accommodation?

The normal practice is not to provide notice on a rental until your lawyer suggests that you should. Assuming that you have not previously done so, contact to your solicitor and request that they seek the assistance the other side, try to get a realistic time scale from them that everyone will look towards

Can I use your services to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Needham Market even if I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for example where I want to acquire an office in Needham Market with a mortgage from Virgin Money?

Our search tool is predominantly utilised to find domestic conveyancing solicitors in Needham Market but we have listed towards the end of this page a selection of Needham Market commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the firm directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Virgin Money

My property lawyer in Needham Market is not on the Britannia Conveyancing Panel. Can I still use my prefered solicitor even though they are not on the Britannia approved list?

The limited options open to you here include:

  1. Complete the purchase with your existing Needham Market solicitors but Britannia will need to instruct a conveyancer on their list of acceptable firms. This will inevitably rack up the total conveyancing charges as well as cause frustration.
  2. Get an alternative practitioner to to deal with the conveyancing, not forgetting to check they are Britannia approved.
  3. Try to convince your Britannia based solicitor to seek to join the Britannia panel

I am purchasing a house and the lawyer has mentioned Chancel Repair to which the house may be obligated to pay because it falls into the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this really necessary for conveyancing in Needham Market

Unless a prior acquisition of the house took place post 12 October 2013 you can expect solicitors conducting conveyancing in Needham Market to remain encouraging a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.

I was advised by a few property agents in Needham Market to find a conveyancer on your site. Is there a financial inducement for Estate Agents to recommend your services over alternative conveyancing organisations?

We refuse to give any commission for directing people in our direction. We found it would be just too difficult a fee because members of the public would think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I receiving any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.

I was told by my bank that their panel lawyers work on no move no charge basis for conveyancing in Needham Market. I had a purchase abort yet the lawyers want search fees! They are claiming that the fees are seperate!

Needham Market conveyancing search fees are separate expenses not solicitors fees as these are paid to independent parties.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Needham Market regulated by the SRA

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

  • Gudgeons Prentice, Buttermarket, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1ED
  • Haywards, 7-9 Tavern Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1PJ
  • Ross Coates Solicitors, Unit 5 - 7, Alpha Business Park, Whitehouse Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5LT

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Needham Market

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Needham Market with expertise in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Gudgeons Prentice, Buttermarket, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1ED
  • Ross Coates Solicitors, Unit 5 - 7, Alpha Business Park, Whitehouse Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5LT

Selling a home in Needham Market is a complex business, both legally and administratively. The exact order of events varies slightly, below are some of the tasks in the process.

  • Property lawyer instructed by the seller once the offer has been accepted
  • Collating the documents evidencing the title to the property
  • Drafting contract and related documents
  • Supplying draft papers to the lawyer representing the purchaser
  • Negotiating contracts and responding to further questions from the buyer’s lawyer
  • Negotiating the transfer document
  • Responding to requisitions submitted by the buyer’s lawyer
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then preparing for completion
  • Receiving sale proceeds and sending funds to the vendor, the estate agent and redeeming the home loan (if relevant)

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

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