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Reasons to use our Eastbourne conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 We are the UKs largest residential conveyancing directory service identifying mortgage company approved property lawyers delivering conveyancing in Eastbourne who are regulated by the SRA or CLC.
  • 2 No matter what any other lawyers advise it may be important to attend your lawyer to sign contracts. Too many 3rd parties are already with an interest in a house sale without having to include the postman into the pot.
  • 3 Solicitors that specialise in conveyancing in Eastbourne are familiar with the local issues specific to Eastbourne and therefore you may benefit from better guidance and faster conveyancing.
  • 4 This site is the only site that enables you the facility to check that your property ownership legalities in Eastbourne will be carried out by a property lawyer on your lender’s member panel.
  • 5 Personal touch together with pure property experience are key benefits that you should value when selecting conveyancing solicitors. Eastbourne property deals can be made a lot more complicated as a result of poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers we work with ensure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments expeditiously.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Eastbourne since February 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Eastbourne

My partner and I are hoping to purchase a property in Eastbourne and are in fact using a Eastbourne conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. The Royal Bank of Scotland have this evening contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Eastbourne lawyer is not on their approved list of lawyers. Is this a problem?

If you are buying a property needing a mortgage it is standard for the purchasers' solicitors to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your mortgage company and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Eastbourne lawyers, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.

A relative suggested that where I am buying in Eastbourne I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

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

I used Arc property Solicitors several years ago for my conveyancing in Eastbourne. Now, I need the documents however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should 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 Eastbourne of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

About to purchase a new build apartment in Eastbourne. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Eastbourne

    If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £195,000 and found one close by in Eastbourne I like with amenity areas and station nearby, however it only has 61 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Eastbourne in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?

If you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing owner has owned the property for a minimum of twenty four months you may ask them to start the process of the extension and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor concerning this matter.

As co-executor for the will of my grandfather I am selling a house in Newport but live in Eastbourne. My solicitor (based 250 miles from mehas requested that I execute a statutory declaration prior to the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing lawyer in Eastbourne to witness and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are based in Eastbourne

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Eastbourne

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Eastbourne with expertise in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on Leasehold Valuation Tribunal proceedings

  • Cornfield Law Llp, 47 Cornfield Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4QN
  • Hart Reade, 104 South Street, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4LW
  • Stephen Rimmer Llp, 28-30 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PX
  • Barwells Legal Limited, 6 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PN
  • Mccarthy Webb Ltd, Wish Mews, 21 Wish Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4NX

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Eastbourne regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please note that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Eastbourne but also conveyancing throughout England and Wales.
  • Hobson & Latham Limited, 47 Gildredge Road, BN21 4RY

What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in Eastbourne?

Licensed Conveyancers specialise in the legalities surrounding acquiring and selling property and cover conveyancing nationwide not just Eastbourne. If instructing a Licensed Conveyancer regulated by the CLC, you can expect:
  • Receive an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Have a high standard of legal services.
  • Enjoy the benefit of your conveyancing dealt with using care, skill and diligence.
  • Have a high standard of service due to your lawyer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Have a service which is accessible and responsive to your specific requirements.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • To receive the level you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Have your individual needs taken into account should a complaint be made.
  • Have a timeous, independent and comprehensive service where making a complaint about your conveyancing in Eastbourne about your conveyancing in Eastbourne.

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

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