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Examples of recent conveyancing in Drakes Cross since January 2025*

Sale

of terraced premises, Links Road, B14 4TW completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £310,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, sending title deeds and signed transfer to purchaser’s lawyers

Disposal

of semi residence, Verstone Road, B90 3LA completing on 23/01/2025 at a price of £390,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, obtaining official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

Transfer

of semi property, Franklin Road, B30 2HE completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £440,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of detached residence property, Church Hill, B31 2JB completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £150,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, ordering official copies of the title, preparing statement detailing charges

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Drakes Cross

Having been suggested to visit your company we were about to appoint conveyancing solicitor in Drakes Cross listed by you but stumbled across alternative fee calculations on the internet seem cheaper – why is this?

There are plenty of solicitors marketing what appear to be very low prices. You should give due consideration as to how much you respect your own move to want to take 'cheap' risks concerning the standard of the conveyancing. Many of them list a bargain quote as a headline but bury supplemental charges in the small print..

My Drakes Cross solicitor has spotted a difference between the assumptions in the valuation survey and what is revealed within the title deeds. My lawyer informs me that he must ensure that the lender is OK with this discrepancy and is content to go ahead. Is my lawyer’s course or action right?

Your solicitor must comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for both parties.

I am buying a house and the conveyancer has identified Chancel Repair to which the property may be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has mentioned insurance. Is this really appropriate for conveyancing in Drakes Cross

Unless a previous purchase of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you may take it that conveyancing practitioners carrying out conveyancing in Drakes Cross to remain encouraging a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in last month in what should have been a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Drakes Cross is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can impart?

Flying freeholds in Drakes Cross are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Drakes Cross you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Drakes Cross may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

Taking into account that I am about to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a two bedroom apartment in Drakes Cross I wish to talk to a lawyer regarding thehome move ahead of instructing the firm. Can this be arranged?

This is something that we encourage - it is our preference to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you liaising with the lawyer who will be conducting your conveyancing in Drakes Cross.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - each client is unique individual, not a case reference. The practices that we put you in touch with believe that the figure you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Drakes Cross should be the figure that you are charged.

As co-executor for the estate of my aunt I am selling a house in Swansea but I am based in Drakes Cross. My lawyer (approximately 250 miles awayhas requested that I sign a statutory declaration before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing solicitor in Drakes Cross to attest this legal document for me?

Technically speaking you are unlikely to be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are Drakes Cross based

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Drakes Cross

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Drakes Cross specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Sydney Mitchell Llp, Chattock House, 346 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 3DN
  • Wadsworths Solicitors Limited, 325 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 3BL
  • Eric Bowes & Co, 139 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 3AY
  • Howell & Co, 1341, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 9HW
  • Ashley James Solicitors Limited, Centre Court 1301 Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 9HH

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Drakes Cross regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Drakes Cross specialising in commercial conveyancing in Drakes Cross. This should include advice on re-mortgaging commercial property
  • Sydney Mitchell Llp, Chattock House, 346 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 3DN
  • Howell & Co, 1341, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 9HW
  • Ashley James Solicitors Limited, Centre Court 1301 Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 9HH
  • Reilly & Co Solicitors Limited, Centre Court, 1301 Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 9HH
  • Glover Priest Solicitors Limited, 56 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7DY

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Drakes Cross regulated by the CLC

Please note that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Drakes Cross but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • John Wilson & Co, 31 Raddlebarn Road, B29 6HH
  • Northwood Banks & Co Ltd, 1600 Coventry Road, B26 1AL

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

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