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Reasons to use our St Helens conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 No matter what any alternative solicitors may claim it could be important to attend your conveyancer to sign documents. There are various parties with engaged in a homemove without needing to add the postman into the equation.
  • 2 Our site offers most comprehensive residential conveyancing directory service identifying bank approved law practices conducting conveyancing in St Helens governed by the SRA or Council of Licensed Conveyancers.
  • 3 Our site is the only site offering you the ability to ensure that your property ownership legalities in St Helens will be carried out by a law firm on your mortgage lender’s member panel.
  • 4 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in St Helens is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) sometimes falls short of the level of professionalism you will expect.
  • 5 St Helens conveyancers work in partnership with St Helens estate agents, house builders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to home movers every step of the way, never losing sight of the time-critical nature behind your conveyancing transaction

Examples of recent conveyancing in St Helens since November 2025*

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of apartment Charles Street WA10 1LP, at buying sum of £97,500. Leasehold conveyancing included: obtaining official copies of the title, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

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Purchase

of apartment Albion Street WA10 2HA, acquired for £127,500. Leasehold conveyancing work included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the vendor for execution in preparation for completion, agreeing completion date with parties

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Acquisition

of flat Albion Street WA10 2HA, purchased for £88,000. Leasehold conveyancing due diligence included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, preparing statement detailing charges

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Purchase

of apartment Hollybank Grove WA9 1EH, purchased for £146,000. Leasehold conveyancing legalities included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in St Helens

Our god-son is buying a newly built flat in St Helens with a home loan from Coventry BS. His conveyancer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. Who needs to receive the form?

The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Coventry BS conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

We see that you have a search directory listing firms on the Skipton conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I retain them for our conveyancing in St Helens?

We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Skipton conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in St Helens.

My Conveyancer in St Helens is not listed on the Barnsley Building Society Approved Panel. Is it possible for me to use my family solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the Barnsley Building Society list of approved lawyers?

Your options are as follows:

  1. Carry on with your preferred St Helens lawyers but Barnsley Building Society will need to instruct a solicitor on their list of acceptable firms. This will inevitably rack up the total conveyancing charges and cause delays.
  2. Get an alternative solicitor to act in the conveyancing, not forgetting to check they are Barnsley Building Society approved.
  3. Try to convince your Barnsley Building Society solicitor to attempt to join the Barnsley Building Society panel

I am due to move house in May. Will my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the day of completion. Incidentally, can you put forward a removal company in St Helens. Conveyancing solicitor was chosen prior to coming across this site.

On the day of completion you will need to pick up the house keys from the property agent but this can only be done once the vendors conveyancers inform the agent that the monies to complete are in and the keys can be released. After that you should advise the removal company that they can start moving you in. As a matter of policy we do not suggest a particular removal organisation but can assist you in finding a residential property solicitor in St Helens or a lawyer that specialises in conveyancing in St Helens.

My solicitor has informed me that flying freehold insurance is needed on my purchase. What is the level of cover for St Helens conveyancing?

The right level of flying freehold indemnity insurance should be dictated by who your lender. It would differ for example between Birmingham Midshires and Virgin Money. Conveyancing solicitors as opposed to members of the public take out such policies.

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

A lender would not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Clydesdale to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in last month in what was supposed to be a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. St Helens is where the house is located. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in St Helens are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside St Helens you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds diligently. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in St Helens may determine 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.

When it comes to my conveyancing in St Helens should I be paying VAT on the following: (1) Land reg fee on purchase (2) Pre - completion search fee (3) SDLT E submission on purchase (4) Bank TT fee

(1) Land reg fee on purchase - No (2) Pre - completion search fees -No, (such conveyancing searches are HMLR ones and means £4 and possibly £2 bankruptcy per name on your mortgage) (3) SDLT E submission on your purchase - There is no VAT on Stamp Duty. However if the firm is charging a stamp duty e-submission fee as part of their services - some St Helens conveyancers do - that will incur VAT(4) Bank transfer fee - Yes it is for the conveyancing practitioner's time in submitting the funds this way.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in St Helens regulated by the SRA

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

  • 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
  • J Keith Park Solicitors, Claughton House, 39 Barrow Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RX
  • Nicholas John Hall Limited, Barrow House, 26 Barrow Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1RX

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in St Helens

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list 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 Rent Act Protected, Assured and Assured Shorthold tenancies

  • 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

St Helens commercial property solicitors draw on a wide range of commercial expertise offering advice on a variety of issues across all aspects of commercial property law

    Offices, retail or industrial units Telecommunications and broadcast mast sites Property realisations and advice for insolvency practitioners Subletting, licences and sharing occupation Formation of commercial management companies Hotels, public houses and restaurants

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

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