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Reasons to use our St Austell conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 The practices identified on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing practitioners, legal executives and support staff handling thousands of conveyancing matters annually.
  • 2 St Austell lawyer are the linchpin to a successful St Austell conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your move
  • 3 No matter what any other lawyers may claim it could be necessary to attend your solicitor to execute documents. There are enough parties involved in a homemove without needing to add the postman into the pot.
  • 4 Using a a family Solicitor generally results in a more personal touch. Online forums often suggest that in appointing a large conveyancing firm, your transaction is dealt with by a team of people who who update you by reading from their computer screens.
  • 5 This site is the first site offering you the ability to check that your property ownership legalities in St Austell will be conducted by a property lawyer on your lender’s approved panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in St Austell since January 2025*

Sale

of terraced premises, Longpark Way, PL25 3UJ completing on 30/01/2025 at a price of £193,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, agreeing completion date with parties

Transfer

of terraced property, Portmellon Park, PL26 6XD completing on 29/01/2025 at a price of £127,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, preparing statement detailing charges, sending title deeds and executed transfer to buyer’s lawyers

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in St Austell

What is the best way of finding a reasonably priced conveyancing in St Austell?

First ask connections whom they would seek assistance from.

Option 2 is to look on the web for conveyancing in St Austell. Call a couple or more firms from the list and invite them to forward you their conveyancing fees and speak to the lawyer who will oversee your conveyancing in advance ofcommitting.

Third is to make use of this site to help you find the right solicitors for you based on your unique requirements including area of the property,speed, complications and who the proposed mortgage company is. Resist the temptation to go for £99 conveyancing in St Austell

We're in St Austell, First timers purchasing with a mortgage (lender is Nottingham , and our lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no lawyer should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.

I am assisting my aunt sell her flat in St Austell. Does the conveyancing solicitor arrange an energy assessment or it is for the owner to see to?

After the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments was maintained a required element of moving property. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned prior to the property being advertised. It is not as aspect of the sale process that lawyers normally organise. If you are instructing a St Austell conveyancing lawyer they might be able to arrange energy performance certificates given their relationships with reputable St Austell energy assessors

I am due to exchange contracts on my house. I had a double glazing fitted in February 2006, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My purchaser’s mortgage company, HSBC are being pedantic. The St Austell solicitor who is on the HSBC conveyancing panel is recommending indemnity insurance as a solution but HSBC are requiring a building regulation certificate. Why do HSBC have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?

It is probably the case that HSBC have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why HSBC may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.

I was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Santander. Is it usual for Santander to only issue the offer once my solicitor in St Austell is approved on their conveyancing panel? Santander have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their PI Insurance.

Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Santander to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Santander conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

Do I need to take out insurance to address the risk of chancel repairs when purchasing a house in St Austell?

Unless a previous purchase of the property completed after 12 October 2013 you can assume that lawyers delivering conveyancing in St Austell to continue to recommend a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in St Austell. I now require my file but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

Do call 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 St Austell of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

My wife and I purchased a leasehold flat in St Austell. Conveyancing and Halifax mortgage are in place. A letter has just been received from someone claiming to own the freehold. Attached was a ground rent demand for rent dating back to 1998. The conveyancing practitioner in St Austell who previously acted has now retired. Any advice?

First make enquiries of HMLR to make sure that the individual claiming to own the freehold is indeed the new freeholder. You do not need to incur the fees of a St Austell conveyancing firm to do this as it can be done on-line for less than a fiver. Rest assured that in any event, even if this is the legitimate freeholder, under the Limitation Act 1980 no more than 6 years of rent can be collected.

Leasehold Conveyancing in St Austell - Sample of Queries before buying

    Does the lease have onerous restrictions? What is the length of the lease?

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in St Austell regulated by the SRA

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

  • Charles French & Co Limited, 9a Fore Street, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5PX
  • Coodes Llp, St Austell Business Park, Carclaze, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4FD

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in St Austell regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in St Austell with expertise in commercial conveyancing in St Austell. This may include advice on re-mortgaging commercial property
  • Charles French & Co Limited, 9a Fore Street, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5PX
  • Brains Solicitors, Sydney House, 44 South Street, St. Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5BN
  • Coodes Llp, St Austell Business Park, Carclaze, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4FD

Domestic conveyancing in St Austell ordinarily entails the following:

  • Obtaining instructions from parties involved
  • Checking the title to the property
  • Conducting St Austell searches with respect to the title
  • Considering the draft contract and other papers received from the vendor’s lawyer
  • Submitting questions with the owner’s lawyer
  • Negotiating the purchase agreement
  • Assessing replies provided by the vendor to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Negotiating the Transfer Deed for completion
  • Guiding the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (if relevant)
  • Drafting and sending the purchaser a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion formalities
  • Completion of and submitting to HM Revenue and Customs the appropriate Land Tax forms and payment
  • Registering the buyer and the home loan (if relevant) at the Land Registry.

Neighboring Locations

Cornwall
Bodmin
Lostwithiel
St Columb
St Austell
Fowey
Par
Mevagissey

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

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