My best friend’s sister is a property lawyer. I anticipate that I'll be able to get friends and family rates for conveyancing, but if not, what level of figure should I be paying for conveyancing in Bexhill?
Do contrast pricing. Make use of our comparison tool on this site. You will notice that charges will vary but the service one can expect differ between solicitors as is true with most professions.
We were just about to exchange contracts for a freehold house in Bexhill. We encountered a snag. Our mortgage offer with HSBC Bank expires on 24/2/2026 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 26/2/2026. Can one extend the mortgage offer?
The best person to deal with your question is your conveyancer who should calculate if he or she is corresponding with the bank, seller’s conveyancers, selling agents or possibly all parties taking into account what has happend in your house move to date.
Do the Building Society Association intend to launch a searchable register to list law firms on the Earl Shilton BS conveyancing panel for instance in Bexhill?
We would not expect to be advised of any plans on the part of the BSA to develop such a search facility.
My relative suggested that if I am purchasing in Bexhill I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Bexhill conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Bexhill around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Bexhill Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Bexhill.
I used Action Conveyancing several years ago for my conveyancing in Bexhill. Now, I need the documents but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should call 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 Bexhill of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
In my capacity as executor for the will of my grandfather I am disposing of a property in Monmouth but live in Bexhill. My conveyancer (based 260 miles awayhas requested that I execute a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Bexhill to attest this legal document for me?
Technically speaking you should not be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are Bexhill based