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Examples of recent conveyancing in Pevensey since December 2024*

Disposal

of house property, Coast Road, BN24 6AH completing on 27/01/2025 at a price of £240,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of flat Grenville Road BN24 6BT, at buying sum of £185,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in preparation for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

Transfer

of terraced premises, Castle View Gardens, BN24 5HR completing on 07/01/2025 at a price of £325,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and signed transfer to purchaser’s conveyancer

Disposal

of semi-detached property, Castle View Gardens, BN24 5HS completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £305,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending the transfer to the vendor for signature in readiness for completion, agreeing completion date with parties

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Pevensey

I am purchasing a property mortgage free in Pevensey. I have lived for the previous dozen years in Pevensey. Conveyancing searches are exorbitant. As I know the road and vicinity very well must I have all the conveyancing searches?

If you not getting a mortgage, then all but one or two of the Pevensey conveyancing searches are optional. Your conveyancer will 'advise', no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches completed, but he has a professional duty to do this. Do take into account; if you are likely to sell the house in the future, it will be of relevance to your future purchaser what the searches reveal. There are plenty of instances where properties with functional issues can still reveal negative search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Pevensey will be able to give you some constructive advice here.

As a first time buyer what is the most important advice you can give me concerning purchase conveyancing in Pevensey?

Not many law firms or advisers will tell you this but conveyancing in Pevensey and elsewhere in England and Wales is often a confrontational process. Put another way, when it comes to conveyancing there exists plenty of room for confrontation between you and other parties involved in the legal transfer of property. For example, the vendor, property agent and on occasion your mortgage company. Appointing a lawyer for your conveyancing in Pevensey an important selection as your conveyancer is your adviser, and is the SOLE person in the legal process whose responsibility is to protect your legal interests and to protect you.

There is a worrying increase in the "blame" culture- someone must be blamed for the process being so protracted. We recommend that you your first instinct should be to trust your solicitor ahead of all other players in the conveyancing process.

My wife and I have recently appointed a conveyancing solicitor in Pevensey. I need to find out if they are on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society approved list of lawyers. Could you help?

The first thing you should do is call your solicitor and enquire if they can act for the bank. Alternatively you can call Norwich and Peterborough Building Society who may be able to confirm.

I just acquired a property at auction in Pevensey. Conveyancing is necessary. What happens now?

Now that you are to all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you should choose a conveyancing solicitor soon as you are faced with a tight deadline in which to complete the transaction. An auction property will have a bespoke legal set of papers. This should include evidence of title and search results. Where you are dealing with leasehold property the conveyancing papers should provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork relating to leasehold premises. You need to pass this on to the lawyer working for you ASAP. You also need to ensure that you have funds in place to complete the transaction on the set completion date.

We are due to move home in April. Should my conveyancing solicitor update the removal company on the day of completion. Incidentally, can you put forward a removal company in Pevensey. Conveyancing solicitor was organised prior to coming across this website.

On the day of completion you can pick up the keys from your property agent but this should only be done once the previous owners solicitors advise the agent that the monies to complete are in and the keys can be passed over. Subsequently you can inform the removal company that you are ready to move in. As a matter of policy we do not suggest a specific removal company but can assist you in choosing a residential property solicitor in Pevensey or a firm that specialises in conveyancing in Pevensey.

I recently had an offer agreed on a house in Pevensey. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their property lawyer. I paid an on account payment of £175. Shortly after, the conveyancing practitioner contacted me to say that they were not on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Kent Reliance panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Pevensey. I now require my file however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

You should contact 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 Pevensey of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I'm purchasing a new build house in Pevensey with the aid of help to buy. The sellers would not reduce the amount so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The property agent told me not disclose to my conveyancer about this deal as it may affect my mortgage with Halifax. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Pevensey regulated by the SRA

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

  • Barry & Co, Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, Pevensey, East Sussex, BN24 6EE
  • Gaby Hardwicke, 33 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3YD
  • Daltons Solicitors, 16 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3YD
  • Barwells Legal Limited, 6 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PN
  • Stephen Rimmer Llp, 28-30 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PX

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Pevensey regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Pevensey specialising in commercial conveyancing in Pevensey. This may include advice on buying or selling a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit
  • Barry & Co, Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, Pevensey, East Sussex, BN24 6EE
  • Gaby Hardwicke, 33 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3YD
  • Daltons Solicitors, 16 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3YD
  • Barwells Legal Limited, 6 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PN
  • Cornfield Law Llp, 47 Cornfield Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4QN

Home selling conveyancing in Pevensey normally entails the following:

  • Conveyancer instructed by the vendor on acceptance of the offer
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Preparing contract and related documents
  • Supplying draft papers to the lawyer acting for the purchaser
  • Negotiating contracts and replying to further enquires from the buyer’s lawyer
  • Negotiating the transfer document
  • Answering requisitions raised by the purchaser’s lawyer
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion formalities
  • Receiving sale proceeds and wiring funds to the seller, the estate agent and other relevant parties (if applicable)

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

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