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Logical reasons to let us assist you select a high street conveyancing solicitor in Babbacombe

  • 1 Babbacombe lawyers have a significant advantage when it comes to Babbacombe conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can impact your sale or purchase
  • 2 Solicitors accustomed to conveyancing in Babbacombe have a grasp oflocal issues specific to Babbacombe and therefore you may benefit from better guidance and faster conveyancing.
  • 3 Over the years Babbacombe conveyancer have developed very good connections with Babbacombe local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of undertaking your house sale or purchase in Babbacombe.
  • 4 Our site is the first site that enables you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Babbacombe will be conducted by a conveyancer on your lender’s member panel.
  • 5 There is a better than average chance that the other side’s solicitors are based in Babbacombe - if so sets of conveyancers are likely to be on good working terms

Examples of recent conveyancing in Babbacombe since January 2025*

Disposal

of semi property, Perinville Road, TQ1 3PD completing on 27/01/2025 at a price of £142,500. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties

Sale

of apartment St Marychurch Road TQ1 3HL, at the agreed amount of £135,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, obtaining official copies of the title, preparing statement detailing charges

Acquisition

of apartment Higher Warberry Road TQ1 1SL, at a price of £120,000. Leasehold conveyancing legalities included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, agreeing completion date with parties

Acquisition

of apartment Higher Erith Road TQ1 2RJ, acquired for £67,000. Leasehold conveyancing due diligence included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, agreeing completion date with parties

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Babbacombe

Me and my fiancee are acquiring our first home. Our solicitor has calledto see if we wish to purchase extra conveyancing searches. We are really unsure what's relevant for conveyancing in Babbacombe

The number and type of Babbacombe conveyancing searches depends entirely on the premises, the location, the possibility of any of these risks, your familiarity of the locality and risks, your overall approach to risk. What matters is that you properly comprehend what information each search could provide. Then you can make a decision if you personally think you need that search. If in doubt, ask your lawyer to explain.

We're in Babbacombe, First time buyers buying with a mortgage (lender is Leeds Building Society , and our lawyer is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no solicitor 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.

Have just purchased a repossessed house at auction in Babbacombe. Conveyancing is required. What happens now?

Having legally committed yourself to purchase you will need to hire the services of a conveyancing practitioner soon as you will have a tight deadline in which to complete the purchase. All auction property will ordinarily have an associated legal set of papers. This will include evidence of title and search results. In the case of leasehold premises the conveyancing papers may provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing documentation pertinent to leasehold premises. You should pass this on to your appointed conveyancing solicitor ASAP. Do make sure that your finances are in order to complete on the on the contractual date .

Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unexperienced as FTB of a two bedroom flat in Babbacombe. Do I pick up the keys to the property on the completion date from my solicitor? If so, I will appoint a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Babbacombe?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will electronically transfer the completion advance to the seller's conveyancers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to pick up the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.

I happen to be the only recipient of my late grandmother’s estate and I have everything in my name now, including the house in Babbacombe. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in February. I now wish to sell up. I understand that there is a Mortgage Lenders six month 'rule', meaning my proprietorship could be treated the same way as if I'd bought the property in February. Is the property unsalable for six months?

The CML handbook mandates solicitors to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." By the strict wording you might be caught by that. Some lenders would take a pragmatic view as this provision is primarily there to identify subsales or the quick reselling of properties.

A relative recommended that if I am purchasing in Babbacombe I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Babbacombe conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Babbacombe around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Babbacombe.

I used Stirling Law several years past for my conveyancing in Babbacombe. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. What do I do?

You should contact 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 Babbacombe of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

Should I be concerned if there is an issue with one of the searches for my conveyancing in Babbacombe?

Ordinarily, the majority of adverse entries that arise in Babbacombe conveyancing search responses can be addressed in advance of completion or title insurance could possibly be obtained. You need to remember that regardless of the fact that you are acquiring the property and might be content to live with the search results, your lender may not, and when all said and done have the final decision.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Babbacombe regulated by the SRA

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

  • Darby & Darby, Tudor Chambers, Fore Street, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4PR
  • Somerville & Savage Solicitors T/a Allens Conveyancing, 16a Fore Street, St Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4NA
  • Somerville & Savage Solicitors, Alderbourne, Greenway Road, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4NJ
  • Somerville & Savage, Alderbourne, Greenway Road, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4NJ
  • Almy & Thomas Limited, 71 Abbey Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5NL

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Babbacombe

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Babbacombe practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Darby & Darby, Tudor Chambers, Fore Street, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4PR
  • Almy & Thomas Limited, 71 Abbey Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5NL
  • Wollen Michelmore Llp, Carlton House, 30 The Terrace, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1BS
  • Boyce Hatton Llp, 58 The Terrace, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1DE
  • M L Pope Solicitor, Nutshell Business Hub, Harmsworth House, Barton Hill Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 8JN

Planning law solicitors in Babbacombe regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Babbacombe with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including planning applications and appeals
  • Phoenix Solicitors And Advocates Ltd, 272 Union Street, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5QY
  • Wollen Michelmore Llp, Carlton House, 30 The Terrace, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1BS
  • Boyce Hatton Llp, 58 The Terrace, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1DE
  • Wbw Solicitors Llp, Church House, Queen Street, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2QP

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

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