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Logical reasons to use our service to help you select a local conveyancing solicitor in Colney Hatch

  • 1 Colney Hatch conveyancers will have connections at the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 2 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Colney Hatch is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) often falls short of the level of professionalism you will expect.
  • 3 This site is the first site that enables you the facility to check that your conveyancing in Colney Hatch will be carried out by a solicitor on your mortgage lender’s authorised panel.
  • 4 There is a better than average chance that the other side’s lawyers have offices in Colney Hatch - if so sets of lawyers are likely to be less confrontational
  • 5 Using a local Solicitor on the whole results in a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, your matter is dealt with by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Colney Hatch since October 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Colney Hatch

We are about to exchange contracts for a freehold house in Colney Hatch. We encountered a stumbling block. The loan offer with Santander runs out on 10/3/2025 but the vendors are suggesting a completion date of 12/3/2025. Is it possible to prolong the mortgage offer?

The best person to deal with your issue is your conveyancer who is in a position to assess whether they corresponding with the mortgage company, owner’s solicitors, property agents or indeed all parties given the circumstances your transaction to date.

Do I select a Licenced Conveyancer or Solicitor for conveyancing in Colney Hatch?

There are two types of lawyers who can conduct conveyancing in Colney Hatch namely CLC regulated conveyancers or solicitors. The two can handle conveyancing services that you need to complete the disposal or acquisition of property. Both are duty bound to carry out Colney Hatch conveyancing on similar quality and guidelines so you can be sure that your conveyancing will be professionally carried out and that all requisite procedures should be suitably followed.

I had a mortgage agreed in principle with UBS. Colney Hatch conveyancing solicitors are instructed. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from UBS?

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

I have paid off my mortgage with Santander. I assume I don't need a Colney Hatch lawyer on the Santander panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your Santander mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Santander mortgage from the register. Santander, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

  1. but are not moving to another property
  2. where Santander has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Santander has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Santander mortgage has been paid off.

We are buying a house and the lawyer has raised the issue of Chancel Repair for which the property could be obligated to pay given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. She has suggested insurance. Is this really necessary for conveyancing in Colney Hatch

Unless a previous purchase of the property took place after 12 October 2013 you may expect lawyers conducting conveyancing in Colney Hatch to continue to recommend a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

I was recommended by a number of estate agents in Colney Hatch to locate a conveyancer using your seach tool. Is there a financial upside for Estate Agents to market your lawyers ahead of another?

We don’t offer any referral fee for sending work to this site. We thought it would be too underhand a fee because home movers will think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.

Am I better off to appoint a Colney Hatch conveyancing solicitor based in the location that I am purchasing? We have a good friend who can execute the legal work however her office is 200miles away.

The benefit of a local Colney Hatch conveyancing practice is that you can visit the firm to sign paperwork, present your identification documents and apply pressure on them where appropriate. They will also have local insight which is a bonus. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will do a good and efficient job. If you know people who instructed your friend and on the whole were content that should trump using an unfamiliar Colney Hatch conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being round the corner.

If instructed can a conveyancer remove a person from the title of my property in Colney Hatch ?

Subtracting or adding someone to the title of your house is relatively straightforward. You’ll need to appoint a lawyer to discuss your legal rights before you can proceed with a transfer of property. Contact us to book a free consultation with one a conveyancer

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Colney Hatch regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Colney Hatch specialising in commercial conveyancing in Colney Hatch. This may include advice on granting a lease to a commercial tenant
  • Groom Halliday, 5 Sandringham Gardens, North Finchley, London, London, N12 0NY
  • Howard Hyman & Co, The Law Chambers, 1a Friern Park, North Finchley, London, Middlesex, N12 9DE
  • Perry Clements Solicitors, Rex House, 354 Ballards Lane, North Finchley, London, London, N12 0DD
  • Simons Levine & Co, 760 High Road, London, N12 9QH
  • Sylvester Amiel Lewin & Horne Llp, Pearl Assurance House, 319 Ballards Lane, London, N12 8LY

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Colney Hatch regulated by the CLC

Please note that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Colney Hatch but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • House Owners Conveyancers Limited, Dephina House, N3 2JU
  • House Owners Conveyancers Limited, 56 Windermere Avenue, N3 3RA
  • Horizon Law Limited, 214 High Street, EN5 5SZ
  • L B Property Lawyers, Imperial House, N17 0SP
  • Home 2 Home Property Lawyers Limited, 32 Millais Gardens, HA8 5SY

Planning law solicitors in Colney Hatch regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Colney Hatch with expertise in planning law. This could include advice on special planning controls
  • Barnett Alexander Conway Ingram Llp, Sovereign House, 1 Albert Place, Ballards Lane, London, N3 1QB
  • Sal & Co Solicitors Limited, 191 Angel Place, Fore Street, Edmonton, London, England, N18 2UD
  • Stuart & Co, 285 Fore Street, London, London, N9 0PD
  • Vanderpump & Sykes Llp, Lough Point, 2 Gladbeck Way, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 7JA
  • F S Garford, 26 Fairfax Place, London, NW6 4EH

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

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