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Burntwood Conveyancing Statistics*

  • 1 Average time from start to completion was 85 days for conveyancing in Burntwood
  • 2 Percentage of cases in Burntwood that are buy to let is 12%
  • 3 80% freehold and 20% leasehold conveyancing in Burntwood for this year to date
  • 4 Average time frame of day for registration of title in Burntwood
  • 5 Average Land Registry Fee for this year to date was £270

Examples of recent conveyancing in Burntwood since January 2025*

Acquisition

of flat Galway Road WS7 2DT, sold for £290,000. Leasehold conveyancing due diligence included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, securing official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of terraced property, Cannock Road, WS7 0BP completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £380,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, preparing statement detailing charges, sending title deeds and executed transfer to purchaser’s solicitor

Disposal

of house property, Bampton Avenue, WS7 2EQ completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £270,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties, preparing statement detailing charges

Sale

of terraced premises, Ogley Hay Road, WS7 2HU completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £256,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and executed transfer to buyer’s conveyancer

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Burntwood

The Burntwood conveyancing firm handling our Burntwood conveyancing has identified a discrepancy between the information in the home valuation survey and what is in the legal papers for the property. My lawyer informs me that he is duty bound to ensure that the bank is OK with this discrepancy and is content to go ahead. Is my lawyer’s stance right?

Your solicitor must comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook specifications which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for both parties.

Is there a reason why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Burntwood costs more?

Burntwood leasehold properties involve far more paperwork than a freehold purchase, and therefore takes more time to examine and advise upon.Conveyancing will involve the lease having to be checked which is usually a lengthy document, queries raised to ensure that the covenants and conditions have been observed. If it is a flat there will be a management company in existence and the accounts of this will need to be checked and enquiries raised to ensure it is operating efficiently and that all monies due have been paid by the Seller to the company and if not ensuring that money is paid up to date or the appropriate undertakings obtained.

Is it necessary to pay for insurance to protect me from financial exposure to chancel repairs when acquiring a property in Burntwood?

Unless a previous acquisition of the house took place post 12 October 2013 you can assume that conveyancing practitioners handling conveyancing in Burntwood to remain recommending a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

About to purchase a new build apartment in Burntwood. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below are examples of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Burntwood

    Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Please supply a car parking plan. The Vendor must covenant to keep unoccupied units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision.

Am I best advised to instruct a Burntwood conveyancing lawyer who is local to the property I am buying? I have an old university friend who can perform the legal formalities however her office is approximately 350miles drive away.

The benefit of a local Burntwood conveyancing practice is that you can pop in to execute paperwork, deliver your ID and pester them if necessary. They will also have local intelligence which is a bonus. However it's more important to get someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If other friends have instructed your friend and they were content that must outweigh using an unfamiliar Burntwood conveyancing lawyer just because they are round the corner.

Should one as executor remove a deceased person's details from the title deeds for a property in Burntwood?

Where a Burntwood property is co-owned and one of the proprietors dies, their name will not immediately be removed from the Land Registry title. It is not necessary to remove their name as in the event of a sale your conveyancer would simply be asked to evidence as to the reason the other owner is not included in the conveyance, such as a grant of probate.

With a view to making things more straight forward in the future you may arrange to have the deceased person erased from the title register by submitting an application to HM Land Registry with proof of the death. There is no land registry fee payable.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Burntwood regulated by the SRA

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

  • Simon Stowe (solicitors) Limited, 92 Market Street, Hednesford, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS12 1AG
  • Burrell Jenkins, First Floor, Ridings House, Ridings Park, Eastern Way, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 7FH
  • Moseleys, Compton House, 18 Bore Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6LL
  • Keelys Llp, 28 Dam Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6AA
  • Supreme Law Solicitors, 37 High Street, Pelsall, Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, WS3 4LX

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Burntwood regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Burntwood specialising in commercial conveyancing in Burntwood. This will likely include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Simon Stowe (solicitors) Limited, 92 Market Street, Hednesford, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS12 1AG
  • Burrell Jenkins, First Floor, Ridings House, Ridings Park, Eastern Way, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 7FH
  • Moseleys, Compton House, 18 Bore Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6LL
  • Keelys Llp, 28 Dam Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6AA
  • Southwell Mott, 25 Lombard Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6DP

Typically, Burntwood conveyancing for a purchase has some of the following tasks

  • Lawyer instructed by the purchaser once the offer has been accepted
  • Investigating the title to the premises
  • Conducting Burntwood conveyancing searches for the property
  • Considering the draft contract and other documentation supplied by the owner’s conveyancer
  • Submitting queries with the seller’s conveyancer
  • Agreeing the wording of the sale agreement
  • Considering the replies provided by the owner to pre-contract enquiries
  • Agreeing the wording for a Transfer Deed for completion
  • Advising the buyer in respect of the loan offer: (if relevant)
  • Preparing and sending the purchaser a report on title (that is; summarising to the purchaser on the contents of the contract pack, preliminary enquiries and the result of the searches)
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion formalities
  • Completing and submitting to HMRC the correct stamp duty forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration formalities for the buyer and the home loan (where applicable) at the HMLR.

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

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