Find a Lender-Approved Local Conveyancer in Buckingham

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Cheap conveyancing in Buckingham does not necessarily mean low quality - but the odds are stacked against you

Reasons to use our Buckingham conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 On the balance of probabilities the other side’s conveyancers are based in Buckingham - if so both parties will be less confrontational
  • 2 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Buckingham is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) sometimes falls short of the high standards of professionalism you will expect.
  • 3 Conveyancer conveyancing firms have valuable personal connections with Buckingham selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 Buckingham conveyancer are the key to a successful Buckingham home move, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 5 Solicitors accustomed to conveyancing in Buckingham regularly deal withlocal issues peculiar to Buckingham and therefore you may benefit from better advice and expeditious conveyancing.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Buckingham since July 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Buckingham

Is there a search tool that I can utilise to check that the solicitor handling my conveyancing in Buckingham is on the lender’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Bank of Ireland thus paying £187.00 plus VAT in another set of conveyancing costs.

Please do take advantage of the search tool on this page. Pick the lender and type ‘Buckingham’ or your location and you will see numerous conveyancers located in Buckingham or near you.

Can you help - my lawyer says that restrictive coveneant insurance is needed on my purchase. What is the level of cover for Buckingham conveyancing?

The appropriate level of restrictive coveneant indemnity insurance should be dictated by who who your lender is. It would differ for example between HSBC Bank and Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. Conveyancing solicitors as opposed to borrowers take out such insurances.

When it comes to lenders such as Nottingham, do Buckingham lawyers incur a yearly amount to be on the conveyancing panel?

We are not aware of any mortgage company fees to register on their list of approved firms, although some do levy an administration fee to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.

We are getting the release of further monies on our home loan from Lloyds as we wish to carry out alterations to our house in Buckingham. Are we obliged to select a bricks and mortar Buckingham solicitor on the Lloyds conveyancing panel to handle the legals?

Lloyds do not ordinarily appoint a member of their conveyancing panel to deal with the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Lloyds list.

A colleague suggested that where I am buying in Buckingham 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 quoted for as part of the standard Buckingham conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Buckingham around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local 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 regarding Buckingham.

We're new to the buying process - had an offer accepted, but the selling agent told us that the owners will only move forward if we use their preferred conveyancers as they need a ‘quick sale’. Our preferred option is to instruct a high street conveyancer used to conveyancing in Buckingham

We suspect that the seller is unaware of this requirement. Should the owner require ‘a quick sale', turning down a genuine purchaser is is going to put the whole deal at risk. Speak to the vendors direct and explain that (a)you are motivated purchasers (b)you are ready to progress, with mortgage lined up © you do not need to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you will continue to use your preferred Buckingham conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will provide the negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing targets demanded by head office.

Completion is due on our sale of a £250,000 maisonette in Buckingham in six days. The managing agents has quoted £384 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years service charge statements. Is the landlord entitled to charge such fees for a leasehold conveyance in Buckingham?

For the majority of leasehold sales in Buckingham conveyancing will involve, queries regarding the management of a building inevitably needing to be answered directly by the freeholder or its agent, this includes :

    Addressing conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Buckingham Supplying insurance information Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale
Your solicitor will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Buckingham leasehold premises is £350. For Buckingham 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 required to supply answers.

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

    The prefered form of lease structure is if the freehold reversion is owned by the leaseholders. In this situation the lessees have control and notwithstanding that a managing agent is frequently retained where the building is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent retained by the leaseholders. Are any of leasehold owners in arrears of their service charge payments? Generally speaking the cost for major works are not included within service charges, albeit that there some managing agents in Buckingham require tenants to contribute towards a reserve fund and this is used to offset against major repairs or maintenance.

I have checked your search tool I can't find the lawyer I was hoping to instruct as being on the mortgage company conveyancing panel. My lawyer has said that they are on the lender approved panel. How can I be sure given that they are not listed on your directory?

Not all firms are yet listed on our lender panel search tool which is still relatively new. Law firms are listing on a daily basis and it is probably the case that your lawyer is on the bank conveyancing lawyer and you should probably take them at their word. Please do feel free to suggest that they completing their listing on our site as it would only cost them £1 a month to list themselves as being on the mortgage company solicitor panel.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Buckingham regulated by the SRA

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

  • Lorimers, 25-26 West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HF
  • Archdeacon Russell & Co, Hampden House, 24a West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HE
  • Chandler Ray Limited, 22 West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HG
  • A.s.k. Legal Llp, 78 High Street, Winslow, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3DQ

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Buckingham

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Buckingham specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This should include advice on Leasehold Valuation Tribunal proceedings

  • Archdeacon Russell & Co, Hampden House, 24a West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HE
  • Chandler Ray Limited, 22 West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HG

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Buckingham regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Buckingham specialising in commercial conveyancing in Buckingham. This could include advice on buying and selling small and large scale commercial property and agricultural land
  • Chandler Ray Limited, 22 West Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1HG
  • A.s.k. Legal Llp, 78 High Street, Winslow, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3DQ

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

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