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Reasons to use our Castle Vale conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Castle Vale solicitors work in conjunction with Castle Vale estate agents, developers, surveyors, mortgage companies and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to clients every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept informed as to progress all the way along
  • 2 The Castle Vale conveyancing practitioners that are identified are committed to supplying value for money, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Castle Vale
  • 3 Castle Vale property lawyers will acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 4 This site is the first site that enables you the ability to check that your property ownership legalities in Castle Vale will be carried out by a conveyancer on your mortgage lender’s conveyancing panel.
  • 5 There is a strong possibility the the conveyancers for the other party are located in Castle Vale - if so sets of solicitors are likely to be familiar

Examples of recent conveyancing in Castle Vale since October 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Castle Vale

A loan agreement from Santander for the refinancing of my 3 room maisonette is due any day now. Can you put forward a low cost conveyancing solicitor in Castle Vale?

You are on the wrong site if you are seeking cut-price fees for conveyancing solicitors in Castle Vale. We can offer you cost effective conveyancing but we do not aim to work with the cheapest lawyers. Do not be swayed by companies seducing you with £99 conveyancing in Castle Vale. The optimum outcome, in being led by low cost conveyancing, you will get your money’s worth and at worst it will result in you with a hefty uplift in additional fees and still not end up with the service you were looking for.

I am acquiring a house for cash in Castle Vale. I have been living for the previous Seventeen years in Castle Vale. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. As I have knowledge of the area and road very well should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?

Provided that you do not need a mortgage, then the vast majority of the Castle Vale conveyancing searches are optional. Your lawyer will try and sway you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches done, but he has a professional duty to do this. Do take into account; if you are likely to sell the house in the future, it could be of importance to your future buyer what the searches determine. On occasion premises with functional issues can still reveal negative search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Castle Vale should provide you some practical guidance concerning this.

My lender has recommended solicitors on their panel based in Castle Vale but I would rather instruct a conveyancing lawyer in Castle Vale local to me. Are you able to assist?

Not all Castle Vale conveyancing practices are approved and listed on all lender’s conveyancing panel. Do make the most of the above find an approved solicitor tool to choose a Castle Vale conveyancing firm on the on the lender panel.

A colleague suggested that if I am purchasing in Castle Vale I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Castle Vale conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Castle Vale around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Castle Vale Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Castle Vale Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Castle Vale.

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

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

Completion is due on the sale of our £325,000 apartment in Castle Vale in just under a week. The freeholder has quoted £360 for Landlord’s certificate, insurance certificate and 3 years service charge statements. Is the landlord entitled to charge exorbitant fees for a flat conveyance in Castle Vale?

For most leasehold sales in Castle Vale 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 pre-contract questions Where consent is required before sale in Castle Vale Copies of the building insurance and schedule Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale
Your conveyancer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Castle Vale leasehold premises is £350. For Castle Vale 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 obliged to provide the information.

I own a ground floor flat in Castle Vale, conveyancing formalities finalised half a dozen years ago. Can you work out an approximate cost of a lease extension? Comparable flats in Castle Vale with an extended lease are worth £190,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £45 per annum. The lease expires on 21st October 2087

With 62 years left to run the likely cost is going to span between £17,100 and £19,800 plus costs.

The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we are not able to provide the actual costs without more comprehensive investigations. You should not use this information in tribunal or court proceedings. There may be other concerns that need to be taken into account and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Please do not move forward placing reliance on this information without first getting professional advice.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Castle Vale regulated by the SRA

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

  • Keith Bright Solicitors, 30 Walmley Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B76 1QN
  • Ikon Law Ltd, 82 Stechford Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 2AN
  • I Will Solicitors Ltd, 209 Streetly Road, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, B23 7AH
  • Onyx Solicitors Limited, 209 Streetly Road, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, B23 7AH
  • Woollastons, 331 Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5XE

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Castle Vale

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Castle Vale specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Ikon Law Ltd, 82 Stechford Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 2AN
  • Onyx Solicitors Limited, 209 Streetly Road, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, B23 7AH
  • I Will Solicitors Ltd, 209 Streetly Road, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, B23 7AH
  • Powell & Co, 9-11 Coleshill Street, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1SD
  • Ahmad & Williams Solicitors Limited, The Rock, 201-203 Alum Rock Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 1EU

Planning law solicitors in Castle Vale regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The solicitors listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Castle Vale specialising in planning law. This will likely include advice on tree preservation orders
  • Shakespeare Martineau Llp, No 1, Colmore Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 6AA
  • The Wilkes Partnership Llp, 41 Church Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 2RT
  • Gateley Plc, 111 Edmund Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 2HJ
  • Anthony Collins Solicitors Llp, 134 Edmund Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 2ES
  • Clarke Willmott Llp, 138 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2ES

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

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