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  • 1 Using a a family Solicitor in the main results in a more personal touch. Online forums often suggest that in selecting a an online conveyancing factory, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who who progress matters by reading from their computer screens.
  • 2 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these firms are often located hundreds of kilometers away with limited understanding of the factors that affect property transactions in Plumstead
  • 3 Plumstead lawyers have a crucial advantage when it comes to Plumstead conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that will affect your conveyancing
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Examples of recent conveyancing in Plumstead since April 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Plumstead

Me and my partner are buying a flat in Plumstead. My Conveyancer is not on the mortgage company approved list. Is it possible for me to continue with my Plumstead conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the bank panel?

Your options include

  • Carry on with your chosen Plumstead conveyancing practitioner but your bank will no doubt instruct a conveyancer on their conveyancing panel. The net result is additional cost together with likely frustration.
  • Choose a fresh solicitor to act in the purchase, ensuring that they are on the lender conveyancing panel.
  • Convince your solicitor to seek to join the bank panel

I am buying a house for cash in Plumstead. I have lived for the last twelve years in Plumstead. Conveyancing searches are exorbitant. Given that I know the area and road very well must I have all the conveyancing searches?

If you not getting a mortgage, then almost all of the Plumstead conveyancing searches are at your discretion. Your solicitor will ’encourage you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches completed, but she is duty bound to take that path of encouragement . One thing to bear in mind; if you are intend to dispose of the house one day, it will likely be be of importance to your prospective buyer what the searches contain. On occasion premises with day to day issues can still throw up detrimental search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Plumstead will be able to give you some sensible advice here.

Completed the sale of my flat in Plumstead last September yet the purchaser is e-mailing me to say his solicitor needs to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?

Following your disposal your lawyer should send the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your solicitor must also evidence that the home loan has been discharged to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures specific conveyancing in Plumstead.

I am helping my sister sell her house in Plumstead. Does the conveyancer arrange the EPC or should I organise this?

After the demise of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was retained a mandatory part of moving property. An energy performance certificate needs to be commissioned before the property is advertised. This is not something that lawyers normally arrange. Where you are instructing a Plumstead conveyancing solicitor they might be able to arrange energy performance certificates due to their relationships with reputable local providers

We have agreed to purchase a house in Plumstead. An unusual aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Coventry BS have issued a mortgage offer so presumably this is not a concern to them. Why is my solicitor raising questions about the panel?

As you are obtaining a mortgage with Coventry BS your lawyer must follow the formal requirements outlined in Part two of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Coventry BS. The CML Handbook sets out minimum specifications for solar panel roof-space leases, and property lawyers are required to report to Coventry BS where a lease fails to satisfy these provisions. The provisions relate to the installation of panels on properties in England and Wales and is not limited to Plumstead.

I have paid off my mortgage with Bank of Ireland. I assume I don't need a Plumstead lawyer on the Bank of Ireland panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Am I right?

If you have finished paying off your Bank of Ireland mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Bank of Ireland mortgage from the register. Bank of Ireland, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

  1. but are not moving to another property
  2. where Bank of Ireland has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Bank of Ireland has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Bank of Ireland mortgage has been paid off.

Will commercial conveyancing searches disclose planned roadworks that may impact a commercial estate in Plumstead?

Many commercial conveyancing solicitors in Plumstead will conduct a SiteSolutions Highways report as it dramatically cuts the time that conveyancers expend in looking into accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Plumstead. The search result sets out definitive data on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Plumstead.

For every commercial conveyancing transaction in Plumstead it is crucial to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. Failure to identify developments where adoption procedures have not been dealt with adequately could cause delays to Plumstead commercial conveyancing transactions as well as pose a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not conducted for domestic conveyancing in Plumstead.

Myself and my fiance have recently had an offer agreed on a property and had meeting on Monday with Nationwide for the mortgage. They have informed us that when it comes to appointing a solicitor that unless they are on their approved panel of lawyers then we will be subject to an an additional fee of £200. This is is due to the fact that they will then have to instruct a solicitor to act on their behalf in addition to the one we choose to act on our behalf and we will be on the hook for their invoice. I have asked Nationwide to send me with a list so I can obtain quotes only from their approved solicitors but was told they dont have such a list to hand over. Is there a simple way of finding out who is on a lender panel?

You can enquire of Nationwide what their panel criteria is for a conveyancer.Then ask the property lawyer of your choice whether they fit that criteria and have they acted on mortgages for Nationwide before. If the answer to those is yes, then just double check with Nationwide. Another option is to utilise our search facility and we should be able to find you a solicitor in Plumstead on the approved list for Nationwide.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Plumstead regulated by the SRA

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

  • Rees Myers Solicitors, Gunnery House, 9 - 11 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SW
  • A&c Solicitors, 2nd Floor, 7-9 Woolwich New Road, London, SE18 6EX
  • Cook Taylor, 3 Thomas Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6HR
  • H E Thomas & Co, 16 Beresford Square, London, SE18 6AY
  • Anaysse-jacobs Solicitors, First Floor Offices, 33-35 Powis Street, London, London, SE18 6HZ

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Plumstead regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Plumstead with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Plumstead. This should include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Cook Taylor, 3 Thomas Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6HR
  • Anaysse-jacobs Solicitors, First Floor Offices, 33-35 Powis Street, London, London, SE18 6HZ
  • Atlantic Solicitors, Suite 209 Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, London, SE18 6PF
  • James Solicitors, Ground Floor, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF
  • Whitehorse Solicitors, Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF

Domestic Licensed Conveyancers in Plumstead regulated by the CLC

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Plumstead but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Cain Associates Llp, 297 The Broadway, DA6 8DG
  • Suriya & Douglas, Suite B, 7th Floor, Charter House, IG1 1UF
  • T J Ball & Company, 49 Leytonstone Road, E15 1JA
  • Walter Saunders, 382 Brockley Road, SE4 2BY

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

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