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Main reasons to let us assist you find a local conveyancing solicitor in St Helens

  • 1 Experience means that St Helens solicitor have developed very good working relationships with St Helens local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of handling your conveyancing in St Helens.
  • 2 Retaining the services of a local Solicitor in the main means that you will receive a more bespoke service. Sometimes when dealing with a an online conveyancing factory, your matter is dealt with by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by reading from their computer screens.
  • 3 Lawyer conveyancing solicitors have very good personal links with St Helens selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 The St Helens conveyancing firms that are identified are committed to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to purchasers, sellers and remortgagors in St Helens
  • 5 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these organisations are often based hundreds of miles away with little appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in St Helens

Examples of recent conveyancing in St Helens since December 2024*

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Acquisition

of apartment Creswell Street WA10 2PN, acquired for £65,000. Leasehold conveyancing investigations included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, setting up the completion formalities

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Transfer

of apartment Borough Road WA10 3TA, at buying consideration of £80,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, securing official copies of the title, agreeing completion date with parties

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Transfer

of apartment Drake Street WA10 4JG, at purchase amount of £107,500. Leasehold conveyancing included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in readiness for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

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Disposal

of apartment Exeter Street WA10 4HR, at the agreed sum of £50,500. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in St Helens

Is there a reason why leasehold purchase conveyancing in St Helens costs more?

The conveyancing charges on a leasehold premises in St Helens is frequently greater as compared to a freehold property. This is because there is an amount of additional time necessary in corresponding with the freeholder and managing agents to collate the evidence concerning whether the rent and service fee have been cleared and whether there are any large sums expected to be spent in the near future on repairs or maintenance of the block.

We are aiming to move house in June. Should my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the day of completion. On a separate note, can you recommend a removal company in St Helens. Conveyancing solicitor was found prior to coming across this page.

On the afternoon of completion you can pick up the house keys from your selling agent but this can only be done once the previous owners solicitors advise the agent that they have the completion monies and the keys can be released. You will need to advise the removal company that they can start moving you in. As a matter of policy we do not suggest a particular removal company but can assist you in finding a conveyancing in St Helens or a legal practice that specialises in conveyancing in St Helens.

I had a mortgage agreed in principle with Nottingham. St Helens conveyancing practitioners have been chosen. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Nottingham?

Some lenders take longer than others. Have Nottingham conducted the valuation? Have you advised Nottingham as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Nottingham conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.

I recently had an offer agreed on a house in St Helens. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their property lawyer. I paid an upfront payment of £150. Shortly after, the property lawyer called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the UBS 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 UBS 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.

My friend suggested that where I am purchasing in St Helens I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard St Helens conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about St Helens around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, St Helens Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding St Helens.

I'm purchasing my first flat in St Helens with the aid of help to buy. The builders refused to move on the amount so I negotiated 6k of extras instead. The sale representative advised me not inform my solicitor about this side-deal as it will affect my mortgage with the lender. Is this normal?.

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.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. St Helens is where the house is located. What do you suggest?

Flying freeholds in St Helens are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside St Helens you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds diligently. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in St Helens may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

In what way can the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 affect my commercial offices in St Helens and how can you help?

The particular law that you refer to provides protection to business leaseholders, granting the dueness to apply to court for a new tenancy and continue in occupation at the end of an expired lease. There are limited grounds where a landlord can refrain from granting a lease renewal and the rules are complex. We are happy to direct you to commercial conveyancing firms who use the act for protection and assist with commercial conveyancing in St Helens

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in St Helens

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in St Helens practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Claims for damages for illegal

  • Haygarth Jones, 109-111 Corporation Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1SX
  • Tickle Hall Cross, Carlton Chambers, 25 Hardshaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RP
  • Frodshams Solicitors Limited, 17/19 Hardshaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RB
  • St Helens Law Limited, 19-27 Shaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DF
  • Barrington Lewis Law Ltd, Allied Business Centre, 1 Potter Place, Pimbo, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 9PW

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in St Helens regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in St Helens specialising in commercial conveyancing in St Helens. This will likely include advice on granting a lease to a commercial tenant
  • Haygarth Jones, 109-111 Corporation Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1SX
  • Barrow And Cook Solicitors Limited, 5-7 Victoria Square, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1HH
  • Tickle Hall Cross, Carlton Chambers, 25 Hardshaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RP
  • Frodshams Solicitors Limited, 17/19 Hardshaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RB
  • St Helens Law Limited, 19-27 Shaw Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DF

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

  • Solicitor instructed by the buyer once the offer has been accepted
  • Checking the title to the premises
  • Conducting St Helens property searches with respect to the title
  • Assessing draft sale agreement and other papers collated by the owner’s property lawyer
  • Raising queries with the vendor’s property lawyer
  • Agreeing the wording of the purchase contract
  • Assessing replies prepared by the seller to pre-contract enquiries
  • Agreeing the wording for the Transfer Deed for completion
  • Guiding the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (if relevant)
  • Drawing up and sending the purchaser a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then preparing for completion
  • Preparing and submitting to HMRC the appropriate Land Tax forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration procedures for the transfer of ownership and the home loan (if appropriate) at the HM Land Registry.

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

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