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Follow your intuition—you will have a better move where you instruct a high street solicitor in Covent Garden

Reasons to use our Covent Garden conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Covent Garden property lawyers are likely to acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and property agents
  • 2 Using a high street Solicitor usually means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a large conveyancing firm, your transaction is handled by a team of people who who update you by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.
  • 3 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Covent Garden 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.
  • 4 Firms that specialise in conveyancing in Covent Garden are familiar with the local issues peculiar to Covent Garden and therefore you may benefit from better advice and speedier conveyancing.
  • 5 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these firms are often based hundreds of kilometers away with limited appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in Covent Garden

Examples of recent conveyancing in Covent Garden since April 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Covent Garden

IfI was to buy a simple residential homein Covent Garden for cash and dispense with a survey and no conveyancing searches how much should I expect to to save on my conveyancing in Covent Garden?

Any savings you would achieve will be isolated to the costs for searches. Your property lawyer still be obliged to do everything else - money laundering, liaising with the vendors conveyancing practitioner, SDLT submission, register the property etc. You might save a bit for them not needing to register a charge but it will not be meaningful.

I am purchasing a house and need a conveyancing solicitor in Covent Garden who is on the Chelsea Building Society solicitor. Can you recommend a local firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Chelsea Building Society in certain locations such as Covent Garden. We dont recommend any particular firm.

My wife and I are buying a house in Covent Garden. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a conveyancer? On the day of competition we will need to deposit funds into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

My bid for a property was accepted at auction in Covent Garden. Conveyancing is required. What are my next steps?

Given that you have now for in every practical sense signed on the dotted line you now have to appoint a conveyancing solicitor quickly as you are faced with a fast approaching deadline in which to complete the property. An auction property should have a corresponding auction pack. This will include most,if not all of the paperwork that your conveyancer requires. Where you are dealing with leasehold property the auction papers may contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing paperwork relating to leasehold premises. You should hand this to your appointed conveyancing solicitor ASAP. Do make sure that you have funds in order to complete on the date specified in the contract.

When it comes to mortgage companies such as Coventry BS, do Covent Garden conveyancing practitioners have to pay an annual charge to be on the list of approved solicitors?

We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their list of approved firms, although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel submission.

I used Stirling Law several years past for my conveyancing in Covent Garden. I now require my papers but the law firm has closed. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Covent Garden of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I am purchasing a new build house in Covent Garden benefiting from help to buy. The builders would not move on the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of fixtures and fittings instead. The house builders rep suggested that I not inform my lawyer about the extras as it could adversely affect my mortgage 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.

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

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

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Covent Garden regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Covent Garden practicing in commercial conveyancing in Covent Garden. This may include advice on buying and selling small and large scale commercial property and agricultural land
  • Redfern Legal Llp, 7 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, London, WC2E 8PS
  • Redfern Law Limited, 7 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8PS
  • Mark Eisenthal & Co, 44 Wellington Street, London, WC2E 7BD
  • Kumari Palany & Co (london), 90 Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9RZ
  • Clintons, 55 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5RZ

Domestic Licensed Conveyancers in Covent Garden regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Covent Garden but also conveyancing throughout England and Wales.
  • Stratega Law Ltd, Sutherland House, W1F 7TE
  • Walter Saunders, 382 Brockley Road, SE4 2BY
  • R & C Property Lawyers Llp, 10A Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7PG
  • T J Ball & Company, 49 Leytonstone Road, E15 1JA

Planning law solicitors in Covent Garden regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The solicitors listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Covent Garden with expertise in planning law. This could include advice on compulsory purchases in Covent Garden
  • Gordon Dadds Llp, 6 Agar Street, London, Greater London, WC2N 4HN
  • Thomas And Thomas Partners Llp, 38a Monmouth Street, London, London, WC2H 9EP
  • Alun Thomas Limited, 38a Monmouth Street, London, WC2H 9EP
  • Mackrell Turner Garrett, Savoy Hill House, Savoy Hill, London, London, WC2R 0BU
  • Fladgate Llp, 16 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DG

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

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