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Reasons to use our Cambourne conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Cambourne lawyer are the key to a successful Cambourne conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 2 Using a local Solicitor generally means that you will receive a more personalised service. When using a large conveyancing firm, your conveyancing is handled by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by reading from their computer screens.
  • 3 Notwithstanding what alternative sites advise it may be important to pop into your lawyer to execute contracts. There are enough parties engaged in a conveyancing transaction without needing to include Royal Mail into the equation.
  • 4 The Cambourne conveyancing practitioners that we work with are dedicated to supplying the most cost, efficient and transparent conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and investors in Cambourne
  • 5 Cambourne property lawyers have a significant edge when it comes to Cambourne conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can impact your sale or purchase

Examples of recent conveyancing in Cambourne since January 2025*

Disposal

of detached residence premises, Windmill Place, CB23 3AE completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £298,500. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, ordering official copies of the title

Transfer

of terraced residence, Pettitts Lane, CB23 8BT completing on 14/01/2025 at a price of £657,500. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in preparation for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

Disposal

of detached residence premises, Foxs Way, CB23 7DL completing on 13/01/2025 at a price of £310,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s solicitor

Transfer

of detached residence residence, The Hawtreys, CB23 7EP completing on 29/01/2025 at a price of £470,000. 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 seller for signature in readiness for completion

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Cambourne

We have very pushy sellers who has suggested a preliminary contract with a non-refundable deposit two thousand pounds. Are such agreements generally advanced for Cambourne conveyancing transactions?

Exclusivity agreements are agreements between a home seller and purchaser giving the buyer the sole right to the sale of the property within a prescribed time frame. Essentially, an exclusivity agreement is a contract stating that you should have a contract at a later date which is the contract for the actual sale. It is generally used for buyer protection though in some cases, the proprietor may stand to benefit from such agreements as well. There are many positives and negatives to having them but you need to check with your solicitor but note that it may end up costing you extra in conveyancing charges. For this these contracts are avoided in relation to conveyancing in Cambourne.

We note that you have a search directory listing law firms on the Principality conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I appoint them for our conveyancing in Cambourne?

We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Principality conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Cambourne.

This question may be naive but I am wet behind the ears as a 1st time buyer of a ground floor flat in Cambourne. Do I pick up the keys to the premises on completion from my solicitor? If this is the case, I will find a local conveyancing solicitor in Cambourne?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will arrange to send the purchase money to the seller's lawyers, and once they have received this, you will be invited to receive the keys from the selling Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.

We have a mortgage agreed in principle with HSBC. Cambourne conveyancing lawyers were instructed. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from HSBC?

There is no definitive answer here. Have HSBC conducted the survey? Have you advised HSBC as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the HSBC conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.

Our offer on a semi in Cambourne has been agreed to, but there is a chain. The owners have offered on on an apartment, but it’s not yet agreed to, and have viewings of other properties booked. I have chosen a bricks and mortar conveyancing solicitor in Cambourne. What do I do now? At what point should I apply for the mortgage with Skipton?

It is normal to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to incur costs too early (home loan application is in the region of one thousand pounds, then valuation, Cambourne conveyancing search costs, etc). The first thing to do is check that your property lawyer is on the Skipton conveyancing panel. Concerning the next phase this very much dictated by the uniqueness of your transaction, motivation for the property and on the state of the market. In a buoyant market some purchasers would apply for a home loan with Skipton and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their lawyer to proceed with searches.

A friend recommended that where I am buying in Cambourne I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Cambourne conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Cambourne around the property and the people living there. It incorporates 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 House Prices, Crime statistics, Cambourne Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Cambourne.

I have recentlybecome aware that Wolstenholmes have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Cambourne for a purchase of a freehold house 10 months ago. How can I be sure that the property is registered correctly in the name of the former proprietor?

The quickest method to check if the property is registered to you, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Cambourne conveyancing specialists.

I am purchasing my first flat in Cambourne with the aid of help to buy. The builders refused to budge the amount so I negotiated £7000 of additionals instead. The property agent told me not reveal to my lawyer about the deal as it will adversely affect my loan with the lender. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Cambourne regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Cambourne specialising in commercial conveyancing in Cambourne. This should include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Shelbournes Solicitors, 1 Munro House, Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 8SQ

Home selling conveyancing in Cambourne normally comprises the following:

  • Property lawyer instructed by the vendor once the offer has been accepted
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Drawing up the contract and related documents
  • Submitting draft papers to the lawyer acting for the buyer
  • Negotiating contracts and responding to further queries from the buyer’s lawyer
  • Finalising the transfer document
  • Responding to requisitions submitted by the purchaser’s lawyer
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion of the sale
  • Receiving sale proceeds and wiring funds to the seller, the estate agent and redeeming the mortgage (if appropriate)

Cambourne commercial property solicitors draw on a wide range of commercial expertise offering advice on a variety of issues across all aspects of commercial property law

    Notices received in respect of alleged breaches of lease Telecommunications and broadcast mast sites Property finance for investment and development loans for mortgage companies and borrowers complex procedures concerning renewal, rent reviews, dilapidations and the many obligations encountered by Landlords and Tenants of commercial premises Compulsory land purchase Development, including options, overage agreements, JCT building contracts

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

© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO.