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If you have reached us by Googling ‘Conveyancing in Burghfield Common’ follow your intuition — you will have a better house move where you instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Burghfield Common.

Reasons to use our Burghfield Common conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Using a high street Solicitor generally results in a more personal touch. Sometimes when dealing with a large conveyancing firm, your transaction is dealt with by a team of people who who progress matters by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.
  • 2 Burghfield Common conveyancing lawyers are likely to acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 3 The hallmark of our conveyancing solicitors in Burghfield Common 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.
  • 4 Conveyancer conveyancing solicitors have extremely good personal links with Burghfield Common estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 5 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these firms are often based many kilometers away with little understanding of the factors that affect property transactions in Burghfield Common

Examples of recent conveyancing in Burghfield Common since November 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Burghfield Common

A loan offer from NatWest for the remortgage of my 3 bedroom garden flat is to be issued within the next few days. Can you recommend a cheap conveyancing solicitor in Burghfield Common?

This site is not designed to help those in pursuit of the cheapest conveyancing solicitors in Burghfield Common. Our aim is to provide affordable conveyancing but we do not aim to work with the cheapest lawyers. Resist the temptation to appoint organisations offering the bait of £100 conveyancing in Burghfield Common. In your best case scenario, in choosing a lawyer for low cost conveyancing, you will receive what you pay for and at worst you will end up being stung for extras and still not end up with the service expected.

Me and my partner are due to complete on the purchase of a house in Burghfield Common but as a consequence of wreckage from the recent storms I have managed to agree reparation from the vendor in the sum of £2k by way of a adjustment in the price. This was going to be addressed as part of amending the contract however Kent Reliance are not allowing this. Why were they notified?

Your conveyancer that is on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel is obliged to advise Kent Reliance of any amendments to the purchase price. If you prohibit your conveyancer to notify the price change to Kent Reliance then they would have to discontinue acting for you. In addition, Kent Reliance and you would have to appoint a new lawyer for your conveyancing in Burghfield Common.

I got the keys to my home on 12 January and my personal details is yet to be on the land registry website. Any reason for this? My conveyancing solicitor in Burghfield Common advises it will be registered inside ten days. Are titles in Burghfield Common particularly slow to register?

There is nothing unique about conveyancing in Burghfield Common registration formalities. Rather than based on location, timescales can differ subject to the party submitting the application, whether there are errors and whether the Land registry must send notices to any 3rd persons or bodies. As of today in the region of 80% of such applications are completed in less than three weeks but some can be subject to protracted delays. Registration is effected once the purchaser is living at the property therefore 'speed' is not typically an essential issue yet where there is a degree of urgency associated with the registration then you or your lawyers can contact the land registry and explain the circumstances.

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Burghfield Common and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Burghfield Common. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Burghfield Common area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Burghfield Common. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

I only have 62 years remaining on my flat in Burghfield Common. I now wish to extend my lease but my freeholder is missing. What options are available to me?

If you meet the appropriate requirements, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be granted an extra 90 years by the Court. You will be obliged to demonstrate that you or your lawyers have used your best endeavours to locate the landlord. For most situations an enquiry agent may be helpful to conduct investigations and prepare an expert document to be accepted by the court as proof that the freeholder can not be located. It is wise to seek advice from a solicitor in relation to proving the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court overseeing Burghfield Common.

Leasehold Conveyancing in Burghfield Common - Examples of Queries Prior to Purchasing

    What is the service charge and ground rent on the property? Who manages the building? How many years remain on the lease?

Are Burghfield Common conveyancing solicitors under an obligation to the Law Society to supply clear conveyancing costs?

Inbuilt into the Solicitors Code of Conduct are prescriptive rules and regulations as to how the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) allow solicitors to publicise their fees to clients.The Law Society have practice note giving advice on how to publicise transparent charges to avoid breaching any such rule. Practice notes are not legal advice issued by the Law Society and is not intended as the only standard of good practice a conveyancing solicitor should adhere to. The Practice Note does, nevertheless, constitute the Law Society’s view of acceptable practice for publicising conveyancing charges, and accordingly it’s a recommended read for any solicitor or conveyancer in Burghfield Common or across England and Wales.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Burghfield Common

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

  • John L Banky Solicitors, 18a High Street, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5AN
  • Dexter Montague Llp, 105 Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7UD
  • Pitmans Llp, 47 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SR
  • Johnsons Solicitors Limited, City Gate Business Centre, Southampton Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 2QW
  • Rowberry Morris Thames Valley Llp, 17 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SB

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Burghfield Common regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Burghfield Common with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Burghfield Common. This will likely include advice on re-mortgaging commercial property
  • John L Banky Solicitors, 18a High Street, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5AN
  • Dexter Montague Llp, 105 Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7UD
  • Pitmans Llp, 47 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SR
  • Congeries Llp, 47 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SR
  • Lamport Bassitt Llp, 39 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SL

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Burghfield Common regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Burghfield Common but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Pure Property Law Partners Limited, 33 Ashbury Drive, RG31 5LJ

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

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