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Reasons to use our Devizes conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Retaining the services of a local Solicitor generally results in a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who who progress matters by reading from their computer screens.
  • 2 Over the years Devizes lawyer have established excellent working relationships with Devizes local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of undertaking your house sale or purchase in Devizes.
  • 3 Peace of mind comes when you choose the very best, most recommended conveyancing solicitors. Devizes has a number to pick from, but for a truly dependable and dependable service many local people have been use the endorsement of this site.
  • 4 This site is the only site that enables you the ability to check that your conveyancing in Devizes will be conducted by a property lawyer on your mortgage lender’s authorised panel.
  • 5 The firms identified on our directory have a variation of conveyancing practitioners, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases each year.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Devizes since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Devizes

My financial adviser has requested my Devizes lawyer’ panel reference for the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Can you suggest how I discover this. I have e-mailed my local Devizes branch but they don't know it.

Have you tried contacting your Devizes property lawyer about this?. They maintain a central record lender panel numbers.

I sincerely hope you can help me. My Devizes lawyer is advising me that he is legally obliged toconduct Devizes conveyancing searches resulting from the fact thatthe firm are on the Lloydssolicitor panel. Is my solicitor correct?

You have limited options available to you. Given that you are taking out a loan with a lender your solicitor has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your lawyer would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of your bank’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to comply with the CML Handbook requirements . Even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out Devizes conveyancing searches.

Having sold my house in Devizes last September yet the purchaser is whats apping every few hours to moan that their lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?

Following your sale your solicitor is duty bound to forward the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer should also evidence that the mortgage has been paid off to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in Devizes.

My friend recommended that where I am purchasing in Devizes I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

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

The deeds to our house are lost. The conveyancers who conducted the conveyancing in Devizes 4 years ago no longer exist. Will I be able to sell the house?

Gone are the days when you need to hold title official documentation to prove you are the owner of your registered land or premises, given that the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.

I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing solicitor in Devizes for my house move. Is there any facility to check a solicitor's complaints history with the legal regulator?

You can read presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations stemming from investigations started on or after 1 January 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. For information Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors record, ring 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. International callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator sometimes recorded call for training requirements.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Devizes regulated by the SRA

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

  • Awdry Bailey & Douglas, 33 St. Johns Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1BW
  • Wansbroughs, Northgate House, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1JX

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Devizes regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Devizes with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Devizes. This could include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Awdry Bailey & Douglas, 33 St. Johns Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1BW
  • Wansbroughs, Northgate House, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1JX

Residential in Devizes is a complex business, both legally and administratively. The exact order of events varies slightly, below are some of the tasks in the process.

  • Obtaining instructions from the appropriate parties
  • Examining the title to the property
  • Conducting Devizes searches with respect to the title
  • Reviewing draft contract pack and other documentation collated by the owner’s conveyancer
  • Submitting questions with the owner’s conveyancer
  • Agreeing the wording of the sale agreement
  • Analysing replies given by the owner to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Negotiating a Transfer document
  • Advising the buyer in respect of the mortgage offer: (where applicable)
  • Preparing and sending the purchaser a report on title (that is; summarising to the buyer on the contents of the contract pack, pre-contract enquiries and the result of the searches)
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then preparing for completion
  • Completion of and submitting to HM Revenue and Customs the correct stamp duty forms and payment
  • Registering the new ownership and the mortgage (if relevant) at the HMLR.

Neighboring Locations

Chippenham
Lacock
 Calne
Lyneham
Melksham
Devizes
Shrewton

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

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