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Conveyancing in Abbey Wood : Keep it Local

Reasons to use our Abbey Wood conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Retaining the services of a local Solicitor generally means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a large conveyancing firm, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.
  • 2 The Abbey Wood conveyancing practitioners that are listed are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to purchasers, sellers and remortgagors in Abbey Wood
  • 3 Solicitor conveyancing firms have valuable personal links with Abbey Wood selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 Regardless other solicitors advise it just might be necessary to visit your solicitor to execute documents. There are enough parties with an interest in a homemove without having to include the postman into the mix.
  • 5 Abbey Wood lawyers work in partnership with Abbey Wood estate agents, developers, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to clients every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept up to date with progress all the way along

Examples of recent conveyancing in Abbey Wood since November 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Abbey Wood

Do the conveyancing lawyers identified through your search tool execute auction conveyancing in Abbey Wood?

There are a few auction lawyers we can put you in touch with those specialising in auction conveyancing. Abbey Wood is just one of hundreds of areas of where our lawyers cover.

What does a local search tell me regarding the house my wife and I purchasing in Abbey Wood?

Abbey Wood conveyancing often starts with the ordering local authority searches directly from your local Authority or via a personal search company such as Onsearch The local search plays a central part in many a Abbey Wood conveyancing purchase; as long as you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your new home. The search should provide information on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the premises (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of 13 topic areas.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up as part of conveyancing in Abbey Wood?

Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Abbey Wood. 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…’

About to purchase a new build flat in Abbey Wood. Conveyancing is a frightening process 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 conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Abbey Wood

    Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore.

How difficult is it to swap firm as I have to instruct a firm on the The Royal Bank of Scotland conveyancing panel. I was using a local conveyancing solicitor in Abbey Wood five minutes from me but the firm is not accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland

We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Abbey Wood on the The Royal Bank of Scotland panel. Please note that the law firms that we list do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Abbey Wood. In making use of the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this page, you can scrutinise fees for conveyancing solicitors in Abbey Wood and beyond.

Do I cancel my mortgage payments with RBS once a completion date for my sale in Abbey Wood has been set?

You would be well advised to keep paying any mortgage sums to RBS until the mortgage is repaid on completion as part of your Abbey Wood conveyancing.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Abbey Wood regulated by the SRA

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

  • Toltops Solicitors, 41 Manton Road, Greenwich, London, London, SE2 0JE
  • Margaret Olusegun, 3 The View, London, Bexley, SE2 0DX
  • Rees Myers Solicitors, Gunnery House, 9 - 11 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SW
  • Hadfield & Co, 1 Central Avenue, Welling, Kent, DA16 3AX
  • Apex Law Llp, 3 The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5HH

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Abbey Wood regulated by the CLC

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Abbey Wood 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

Planning law solicitors in Abbey Wood regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Abbey Wood specialising in planning law. This will likely include advice on development on contaminated land
  • Hadfield & Co, 1 Central Avenue, Welling, Kent, DA16 3AX
  • Apex Law Llp, 3 The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5HH
  • Beverley Morris & Co, 35 Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Villiage, London, SE3 0TJ
  • Beverley Morris & Co Incorporating Peter Egan & Co, 62 Lewisham High Street, London, London, SE13 5JH
  • Abdullah Solicitors, 56 Mansfield Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 3BD

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

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