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Reasons to use our Berkeley conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Berkeley lawyers work in partnership with Berkeley estate agents, developers, surveyors, mortgage companies and other professionals to ensure that the highest level of service is offered to clients every step of the way, never losing sight of the time-critical nature behind your conveyancing transaction
  • 2 Using a local Solicitor in the main means that you will receive a more personal touch. Sometimes when dealing with a an online conveyancing factory, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who who progress matters by reading from their computer screens.
  • 3 The practices shown on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing lawyers, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases annually.
  • 4 Berkeley lawyers have a significant edge when it comes to Berkeley conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your sale or purchase
  • 5 Experience means that Berkeley lawyer have developed very good connections with Berkeley 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 house sale or purchase in Berkeley.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Berkeley since December 2024*

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of semi-detached property, Orchard Leaze, GL11 6HY completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £308,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in readiness for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client

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of terraced property, Stinchcombe Hill, GL11 6AQ completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £1,790,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, ordering official copies of the title, agreeing completion date with parties

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Transfer

of terraced property, Everside Close, GL11 5JH completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £200,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the vendor for signature in readiness for completion

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of terraced residence, Garden Suburb, GL11 4EL completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £215,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, ordering official copies of the title, sending title deeds and executed transfer to purchaser’s conveyancer

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Berkeley

I am buying a house for cash in Berkeley. I have resided for the last dozen years in Berkeley. Conveyancing searches are exorbitant. Given that I have knowledge of the road and vicinity intimately should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?

In the absence of a mortgage, then all but one or two of the Berkeley conveyancing searches are non-obligatory. Your solicitor will ’encourage you, perhaps strongly, that you should have searches done, but he is duty bound to do this. Do bear in mind; if you are intend to sell the house at a future date, it could be of interest to your future purchaser what the searches reveal. There are plenty of instances where houses with no practical issues can still throw up negative search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Berkeley will provide you some constructive guidance here.

I am buying a property and need a conveyancing solicitor in Berkeley who is on the Barclays approved. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Barclays in certain locations such as Berkeley. We dont recommend any particular firm.

We are purchasing a house and the lawyer has mentioned Chancel Repair for which the house could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. She has suggested insurance. Is this strictly warranted for conveyancing in Berkeley

Unless a previous acquisition of the house completed post 12 October 2013 you could take it that solicitors conducting conveyancing in Berkeley to remain recommending a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

How does conveyancing in Berkeley differ for newly converted properties?

Most buyers of new build premises in Berkeley approach us having been asked by the developer to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the property is finished. This is because new home sellers in Berkeley tend to acquire the site, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct property lawyers as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are accustomed to new build conveyancing in Berkeley or who has acted in the same development.

I am downsizing from my home. My former solicitors has retired. I would be grateful for any recommendation of a conveyancing firm. Im based in Berkeley if that makes a difference.

Please use our search tool to help you choose a solicitor for your conveyancing in Berkeley. We have connected thousands of home buyers and sellers with lender approved solicitors to ensure that the legalities of their house move runs with a minimum of fuss.

Completion is due on the sale of our £175,000 apartment in Berkeley on Tuesday in a week. The freeholder has quoted £300 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and 3 years statements of service charge. Is the landlord entitled to charge exorbitant fees for a flat conveyance in Berkeley?

Berkeley conveyancing on leasehold maisonettes normally necessitates fees being levied by freeholders :

    Answering pre-contract enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Berkeley Copies of the building insurance and schedule Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale
Your conveyancer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Berkeley leasehold property is £350. For Berkeley conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are obliged to provide the information.

Berkeley Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - Sample of Questions you should consider Prior to buying

    What restrictions exist in the Berkeley Lease? Best to be warned whether changing the roof or some other significant cost is coming up that will be shared by the leaseholders and may well materially increase the the maintenance fees or necessitate a one off invoice.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Berkeley regulated by the SRA

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

  • Pitman Blackstock White Limited, 6 Cavendish Buildings, Hill Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 5HD

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

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Berkeley but also conveyancing throughout England and Wales.
  • Dean Conveyancing, 1 Regents Walk, GL15 5RF

Typically, Berkeley conveyancing for a sale has some of the following tasks

  • Conveyancing practitioner instructed by the vendor once the offer has been accepted
  • Collating the documents evidencing the title to the property
  • Drawing up the contract and associated papers
  • Supplying draft papers to the lawyer retained by the purchaser
  • Negotiating contracts and answering additional enquires from the purchaser’s lawyer
  • Finalising the transfer document
  • Replying to requisitions submitted by the buyer’s lawyer
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then preparing for completion
  • Accepting the sale proceeds and transferring funds to the owner, the estate agent and paying off the mortgage (if applicable)

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

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