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Reasons to use our Victoria conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Victoria lawyers work in partnership with Victoria estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to clients every step of the way, with the aim of reducing administrative burdens and transaction times
  • 2 Retaining the services of a high street Solicitor on the whole means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, your transaction is dealt with by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by reading from their computer screens.
  • 3 There is a better than average chance that the other side’s lawyers are located in Victoria - if so sets of solicitors are likely to be familiar
  • 4 The organisations listed on our directory have a variation of conveyancing lawyers, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases each year.
  • 5 You can gain comfort when you select the very best, most recommended conveyancing solicitors. Victoria has a number to pick from, but for a truly dependable and reliable service many local people have been use the endorsement of this site.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Victoria since August 2023*

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Conveyance

of flat Alderney Street SW1V 4HH, purchased for £813,260. Leasehold conveyancing investigations included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities

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Transfer

of semi-detached property, Westmoreland Terrace, SW1V 4AQ completing on 29/08/2023 at a price of £2,100,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, sending title deeds and executed transfer to purchaser’s conveyancer

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Conveyance

of flat Sloane Street SW1X 9PA, at a price of £4,600,000. Leasehold conveyancing investigations included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities

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Sale

of apartment Lower Sloane Street SW1W 8BJ, at buying amount of £1,250,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Victoria

Much to our surprise we have been told by our financial adviser that my Victoria lawyer is not on the bank Conveyancing panel. What can I do to be sure if this is correct?

The first thing you need to do is to contact your Victoria conveyancer. It is reasonable to expect your lawyer to advise you of the situation. Where they are not on the panel they may be able to suggest a Victoria conveyancing firm that is on the approved list of lawyers for your bank.

My nephew is in the process of securing a newly built flat in Victoria with a home loan from Coventry BS. His lawyer has advised him of a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. This document is news to me - what is it and who needs sight of it?

The document is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the purchase. 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.

Is it correct that all Victoria CQS (Conveyancing Quality Scheme) solicitors are on the Nationwide conveyancing panel?

Some major lenders now make use of CQS as the starting point for Panel approval such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS membership however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. Nevertheless,the CML have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for solicitor practices wishing to join their approved list of conveyancing solicitors.

I have paid off my mortgage with Barclays. I assume I don't need a Victoria conveyancer on the Barclays panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your Barclays 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 Barclays mortgage from the register. Barclays, 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 Barclays has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Barclays has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Barclays mortgage has been paid off.

I have decided to exercise my right to buy my property in Victoria off the council. I have a mortgage offer with UBS. Conveyancing is not something I have any knowledge of. Can I proceed without a solicitor easily? I think we can but we keep being told I should have one. Any advice?

It is not advisable to proceed with a house purchase without a solicitor. The council's solicitor are not acting for you. You need a solicitor for a number reasons. One of which is to verify what plans the Council have for repairs and refurbishment for the next five years. Many leaseholders have been stung for contributions of thousands of pounds. In any event, if you are getting a mortgage with UBS, you will need to appoint a solicitor on the UBS conveyancing panel.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified during conveyancing in Victoria?

Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Victoria. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Victoria. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Set out below are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Victoria

    If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore.

I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing lawyer in Victoria for my purchase. Is it possible to review a solicitor's record with the profession’s regulator?

One can search for documented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions resulting from investigations commenced on or after 1 January 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. For details Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. International callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator sometimes monitor call for training reasons.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Victoria regulated by the SRA

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

  • B D Laddie, 2nd Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5RS
  • Bd Laddie Ltd, 2nd Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5RS
  • Woodroffes, 7 Beeston Place, London, SW1W 0JJ
  • Haslam & Payne, 14-15 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, SW1W 0EX
  • Keystone Law Limited, Second Floor Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HX

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Victoria regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Victoria specialising in commercial conveyancing in Victoria. This should include advice on buying or selling a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit
  • B D Laddie, 2nd Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5RS
  • Bd Laddie Ltd, 2nd Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5RS
  • Woodroffes, 7 Beeston Place, London, SW1W 0JJ
  • Haslam & Payne, 14-15 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, SW1W 0EX
  • Keystone Law Limited, Second Floor Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HX

Domestic Licensed Conveyancers in Victoria regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please note that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Victoria but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Stratega Law Ltd, Sutherland House, W1F 7TE
  • R & C Property Lawyers Llp, 10A Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7PG
  • Walter Saunders, 382 Brockley Road, SE4 2BY
  • Stratega Law Ltd, Bldg 3 Chiswick Park, W4 5YA
  • Ldn Conveyancing Ltd, 3 Acton Hill Mews, W3 9QN

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

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