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Reasons to use our Ferryhill conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 The accumulation of transactions means that Ferryhill lawyer have established very good connections with Ferryhill 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 conveyancing in Ferryhill.
  • 2 Lawyer conveyancing solicitors have extremely good personal links with Ferryhill estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 3 Chances are that the other side’s conveyancers are located in Ferryhill - if so sets of lawyers will be familiar
  • 4 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these organisations are often based hundreds of kilometers away with little understanding of the factors that affect property transactions in Ferryhill
  • 5 Ferryhill conveyancers will be familiar with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents

Examples of recent conveyancing in Ferryhill since May 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Ferryhill

I am purchasing a new build flat in Ferryhill. Can I do my own conveyancing?

Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing in Ferryhill you will have to appoint a solicitor on your bank's conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to be made in you doing conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on your lender panel in Ferryhill.

We are buying a house and the lawyer has identified Chancel Repair for which the property could be obligated to pay because it falls into the area of such a church. He has recommended insurance. Is this strictly warranted for conveyancing in Ferryhill

Unless a prior purchase of the house took place after 12 October 2013 you may take it that solicitors delivering conveyancing in Ferryhill to remain encouraging a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.

I am buying my first flat in Ferryhill with a loan from Bank of Ireland. The builders would not budge the price so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The property agent suggested that I not reveal to my conveyancer about the extras as it may jeopardize my mortgage with the lender. Is this normal?.

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've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a property I have offered on last month in what should have been a simple, chain free conveyancing. Ferryhill is where the house is located. Is there any advice you can impart?

Flying freeholds in Ferryhill are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Ferryhill you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Ferryhill may ascertain 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 property.

Is it possible to switch conveyancer as I have to instruct one who is on the Bank of Scotland conveyancing panel. I hired a high street conveyancing solicitor in Ferryhill round the corner but she is not approved by Bank of Scotland

We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Ferryhill on the Bank of Scotland panel. Please note that the solicitors that we work with do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the SRA who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Ferryhill. In making use of search facility on this page, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Ferryhill.

My husband and I are novice buyers - agreed a price, yet the selling agent has warned us that the owners will only go ahead if we use their preferred conveyancers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a high street solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Ferryhill

It is highly unlikely the owners are driving this. If they want ‘a quick sale', turning down a serious purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Try to communicate with the owners directly and make the point that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you have nothing to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to instruct your own,trusted Ferryhill conveyancing firm - rather thanthe ones that will provide the estate agent a kickback or achieve conveyancing targets demanded by HQ.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Ferryhill regulated by the SRA

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

  • Evans & Co, 33 Cheapside, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 6QF
  • Meikles Solicitors Llp, 2 Clyde Terrace, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 7SE
  • Riley Langdon Solicitors, Suite4 City West Business Park, St. Johns Road, Meadowfield, Durham, County Durham, DH7 8ER
  • The Barrington Law Partnership, Barrington Chambers, Victoria Avenue, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7JH
  • Smith Roddam, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7PG

Planning law solicitors in Ferryhill regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Ferryhill with expertise in planning law. This should include advice on planning applications and appeals
  • The Barrington Law Partnership, Barrington Chambers, Victoria Avenue, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7JH

Ferryhill commercial property solicitors draw on a wide range of commercial expertise offering advice on a variety of issues across all aspects of commercial property law

    General advice on title or other property issues Industrial and warehouse premises Dealing with notices received or to be served pursuant to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Telecommunications and broadcast mast sites Property finance transactions, including sale and leaseback

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