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Reasons to use our Northumberland Heath conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Northumberland Heath property lawyers have a crucial edge when it comes to Northumberland Heath conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your home move
  • 2 Northumberland Heath solicitors work in conjunction with Northumberland Heath estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to buyers and sellers every step of the way, offering all the legal expertise and help you require
  • 3 Solicitor conveyancing lawyers have excellent personal connections with Northumberland Heath selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 Northumberland Heath solicitors will be familiar with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and selling agents
  • 5 No matter what any alternative companies say it just might be important to attend your conveyancer to sign legal papers. Too many 3rd parties are already engaged in a homemove without needing to add Royal Mail into the equation.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Northumberland Heath since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Northumberland Heath

Is there a reason to appoint a Northumberland Heath conveyancing company given that web based alternatives are less overpriced?

By all means make sure that you scrutinise conveyancing costs in Northumberland Heath and you should seek a competitive fee calculation but don’t expend your energy getting the cheapest Northumberland Heath conveyancer. Appointing the right conveyancer can mark the difference between a seamless and a frustrating house move. You need to ensure that you have expert guidance from an experienced solicitor. Emails can't be as helpful as a phone conversation and can never replicate a face to face meeting. The firms that we work with will appoint you a qualified and experienced conveyancing solicitor that will deal with your conveyancing from beginning to end, providing a level of continuity that you are unlikely to received from an web based conveyancer. Our lawyers will keep you updated on any developments making sure that you are regularly updated. Should you need to contact the office you will be sure who to ask for and they will ensure you're not left wondering what's going on.

We are planning to acquire a house and require a conveyancing solicitor in Northumberland Heath who is on the Santander approved panel. Can you recommend a local solicitor?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Santander . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Northumberland Heath.

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

Now that you have to all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you will need to choose a conveyancing lawyer soon as you will have a pending a fixed date to complete the deal. All auction property will ordinarily have a bespoke legal pack. This will likely include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. In the case of leasehold property the conveyancing pack should include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing paperwork relating to a leasehold property. You must give this to the solicitor working for you at the earliest opportunity. Do make sure that your finances are in place to complete on the date specified in the contract.

This question may be naive but I am unseasoned as a first time purchaser of a two bedroom flat in Northumberland Heath. Do I receive the keys to the premises on the completion date from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will find a local conveyancing solicitor in Northumberland Heath?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Conveyancing lawyers for you will transfer the completion advance to the vendor’s solicitors, and once they have received this, you will be called to pick up the keys from the property Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this occurs early afternoon.

Are all Northumberland Heath Conveyancing Quality Solicitors on the Santander conveyancing list of approved firms?

It is true that some banks and building societies now make use of CQS as the starting point for Panel approval such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS membership however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. That being said,the CML have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for solicitor practices wishing to remain on their panels.

My relative advised me that if I am buying in Northumberland Heath I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is usually included in the estimate for your Northumberland Heath conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Northumberland Heath around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Northumberland Heath Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Northumberland Heath Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Northumberland Heath.

I am employed by a busy estate agent office in Northumberland Heath where we have witnessed a few leasehold sales derailed due to leases having less than 80 years remaining. I have been given conflicting advice from local Northumberland Heath conveyancing firms. Can you shed some light as to whether the seller of a flat can initiate the lease extension formalities for the purchaser on completion of the sale?

Provided that the seller has owned the lease for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to commence the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. This means that the proposed purchaser need not have to sit tight for 2 years for a lease extension. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment has to be done prior to, or simultaneously with completion of the sale.

An alternative approach is to extend the lease informally by agreement with the landlord either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the purchaser.

Following months of dialogue we cannot agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Northumberland Heath. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

Most definitely. We are happy to put you in touch with a Northumberland Heath conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Northumberland Heath residence is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case was in relation to 13 flats. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 76 years.

Threeweeks into a sale of a flat in Northumberland Heath. Conveyancing lawyers are doing their job but we are being charged an extortionate amount by the managing agents. To date we have forked out £237 for a leasehold management information and then another £134.40 for responses to queries raised by the buyers property lawyer.

You will not have control over the level of the bill for this information however the typical fee for the information for Northumberland Heath leasehold premises is £395. For Northumberland Heath conveyancing sales it is customary for the owner to cover the costs. The freeholder or their agents are not duty bound to answer these questions most will be content to do so - albeit often at high prices out of proportion to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. There is no set time frame by which they are obliged to provide the information.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Northumberland Heath regulated by the SRA

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

  • Apex Law Llp, 3 The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5HH
  • Margaret Olusegun, 3 The View, London, Bexley, SE2 0DX
  • Richard R Thomas Limited, C/o T G Baynes, Broadway House, 208 Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7BG
  • Michael A Clark Limited, C/o T G Baynes, Broadway House, 208 Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7BG
  • Simon C Potts Limited, C/o T G Baynes, Broadway House, 208 Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7BG

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Northumberland Heath

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Northumberland Heath with expertise in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Claims for damages for illegal

  • Dorcas Funmi & Co, 12 Brook Street, Erith, Kent, DA8 1JQ
  • Caroline Mathews Solicitors, 57 Perry Street, Crayford, Dartford, Kent, DA1 4RB
  • Apex Law Llp, 3 The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5HH
  • Augustine Clement, 1st Floor 3 Market Place, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7DU
  • Margaret Olusegun, 3 The View, London, Bexley, SE2 0DX

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Northumberland Heath regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Northumberland Heath but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Cain Associates Llp, 297 The Broadway, DA6 8DG
  • Ducat Law Ltd, TMS House, BR5 3QB

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

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