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Reasons to use our Eaton Bray conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Our site is the first site offering you the ability to check that your conveyancing in Eaton Bray will be conducted by a law firm on your lender’s authorised panel.
  • 2 Property lawyer conveyancing lawyers have very good personal links with Eaton Bray estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 3 Retaining the services of a local Solicitor on the whole results in a more personal touch. Online forums often suggest that in choosing a large conveyancing firm, your transaction is handled by a team of people who who progress matters by reading from their computer screens.
  • 4 Our site offers most comprehensive domestic conveyancing directory service identifying mortgage company approved property lawyers conducting conveyancing in Eaton Bray governed by the SRA or CLC.
  • 5 Notwithstanding what other sites advise it could be important to attend your conveyancer to execute contracts. There are various parties with with an interest in a conveyancing transaction without needing to include Royal Mail into the mix.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Eaton Bray since December 2024*

Transfer

of terraced property, Park Lane, LU6 2BB completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £478,500. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, preparing statement detailing charges

Conveyance

of flat Wivelsfield LU6 2JQ, at a price of £250,000. Leasehold conveyancing legalities included: sending the transfer to the vendor for execution in readiness for completion, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of terraced premises, Moor End Close, LU6 2HP completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £415,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: sending the transfer to the vendor for execution in preparation for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of terraced premises, Castle Close, LU6 1QJ completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £465,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, preparing statement detailing charges

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Eaton Bray

Having been referred to your service we were about to use a conveyancing solicitor in Eaton Bray recommended on your site but stumbled across alternative quotes on the internet appear less pricey – how come?

There are a variety of conveyancing companies offering what appear to be very low prices. We would urge you to give due consideration as to how important this transaction is to you that you are willing to take 'cheap' risks with regard to the standard of the conveyancing. Some hide additional charges well inside the terms and conditions. The law firms that we put forward for conveyancing in Eaton Bray neverbehave this way.

My wife and I are approaching an exchange on a flat in Eaton Bray and my mum and dad have transferred the ten percent deposit to my conveyancing practitioner. I am now told that as the deposit has not come from me my property lawyer needs to make a notification to my bank. I am advised that, in also acting for the bank he must advise them that the balance of the purchase price is not just from me. I advised the lender regarding my parents' contribution when I applied for the home loan, so is it really necessary for this now to hold matters up?

The solicitor is legally required to clarify with mortgage company to ensure that they are aware that the balance of the purchase price is not from your own funds. Your solicitor can only disclose this to your bank if you agree, failing which, your lawyer must cease to continue acting.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Eaton Bray. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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.

Here is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Eaton Bray

    The Vendor must covenant to keep unoccupied units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. 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. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose?

We're new on the property ladder - agreed a price, but the estate agent has warned us that the vendor will only go ahead if we appoint their chosen conveyancers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. We would rather use a local solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Eaton Bray

We suspect that the owner is unaware of this ultimatum. Should the seller desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a serious buyer is counter productive. Avoid the agents and go straight to the sellers and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to use your own,trusted Eaton Bray conveyancing solicitors - rather thanthe ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a kickback or achieve conveyancing thresholds pre-set by head office.

Having checked my lease I have discovered that there are only 62 years remaining on my lease in Eaton Bray. I am keen to get lease extension but my landlord is can not be found. What options are available to me?

On the basis that you meet the appropriate requirements, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be lengthened by the magistrate. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you or your lawyers have used your best endeavours to locate the landlord. For most situations an enquiry agent should be helpful to try and locate and prepare an expert document to be accepted by the court as evidence that the freeholder can not be located. It is wise to seek advice from a conveyancer both on investigating the landlord’s disappearance and the vesting order request to the County Court covering Eaton Bray.

I own a garden flat in Eaton Bray, conveyancing having been completed in 2009. Can you let me have an estimate of the premium that my landlord can legally expect in return for granting a renewal of my lease? Similar flats in Eaton Bray with over 90 years remaining are worth £195,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £45 levied per year. The lease runs out on 21st October 2089

With only 64 years remaining on your lease we estimate the price of your lease extension to be between £14,300 and £16,400 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.

The suggested premium range that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure without more comprehensive due diligence. Do not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt other issues that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. You should not take any other action based on this information before getting professional advice.

My husband and I are purchasing a first floor flat in Eaton Bray. At the time of instructing our conveyancer, they assured us that they were on all major UK bank panels. Our financial adviser emailed yesterday to advise that they don't appear to be on the Clydesdale approved list. Should that be true, what should we do? Should we just find a different lawyer that is on their panel or do we pay for dual representation, with Clydesdale appointing their own approved conveyancing practitioner.

When buying a property with mortgage finance it is normal for the purchaser’s lawyers to also act for the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a property lawyer has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the property lawyer to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict conditions which the conveyancing practitioner has to satisfy. Some banks now insist their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your conveyancer should contact Clydesdale to discover 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 don't have to instruct a firm on Clydesdale's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Eaton Bray lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Eaton Bray regulated by the SRA

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

  • Knowles Benning Llp, 24 West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 1SN
  • Byron Fearn, Scotson Chambers, 80 High Street South, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 3HD
  • Ray Nixon Brown, 4-6 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1AE
  • Franklins Law, Church House, 11 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1AE
  • Austin & Carnley, Albion Chambers, High Street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1DP

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Eaton Bray regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Eaton Bray with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Eaton Bray. This should include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Knowles Benning Llp, 24 West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 1SN
  • Byron Fearn, Scotson Chambers, 80 High Street South, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 3HD
  • Ray Nixon Brown, 4-6 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1AE
  • Franklins Law, Church House, 11 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1AE
  • Austin & Carnley, Albion Chambers, High Street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1DP

Eaton Bray commercial property solicitors draw on a full range of commercial expertise offering advice on a number of aspects of commercial property law

    Granting a licence to assign, sublet or carry out works Telecommunications and broadcast mast sites Buying, selling and leasing land for registered charities Industrial and warehouse premises Advice on commercial mortgages

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

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