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Logical reasons to let us help you find a local conveyancing solicitor in Grays

  • 1 Grays property lawyers have a crucial edge when it comes to Grays conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that can affect your conveyancing
  • 2 Over the years Grays lawyer have developed valuable working relationships with Grays local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and house builders enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of handling your house sale or purchase in Grays.
  • 3 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these organisations are often based hundreds of miles away with limited understanding of the factors that affect property transactions in Grays
  • 4 Personal touch and pure property expertise are key benefits that you should value when choosing conveyancing solicitors. Grays home moves can be made a lot more protracted because of poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers listed ensure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments instantly.
  • 5 Grays conveyancers work in conjunction with Grays estate agents, developers, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to make sure that the highest level of service is provided to home movers every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept up to date with progress throughout

Examples of recent conveyancing in Grays since January 2025*

Transfer

of house residence, Bruces Wharf Road, RM17 6PE completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £383,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

Conveyance

of flat Lewes Close RM17 6QG, acquired for £165,000. Leasehold conveyancing due diligence included: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in readiness for completion, agreeing completion date with parties

Disposal

of apartment Astley RM17 6UZ, at purchase amount of £213,305. Leasehold conveyancing included: obtaining official copies of the title, agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of terraced residence, Prior Chase, RM17 5HL completing on 20/01/2025 at a price of £355,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, agreeing completion date with parties

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Grays

Unfortunately I am unable to travel far from Grays. I would like to know the understand why all Grays conveyancers are not on all bank panels?

Mortgage Companies ordinarily impose restrictions on either the nature or the number of conveyancing solicitors on their panel. Frequent examples of such criteria being that a organisation is required to have at least two partners. As well as restricting the structure of firm, some lenders made a decision to restrict the size of their panel they allow to act for them. You should note that building societies have no liability for the standard of service provided by any Grays conveyancing practitioner on their panel. Property fraud was a key driver in the reduction of conveyancing panels in the last decade notwithstanding that there are contrary assessments about whether solicitors sat at the center of that fraud. Data from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law practices only transact one or two conveyances annually. Those vindicating conveyancing panel cuts question why conveyancing firms should have the right to be on a lender panel when it is apparent that conveyancing is not their primary expertise?

In the event thatI was to buy a freehold propertyin Grays mortgage fee and have no survey and no local authority searches how much could I expect to have to pay for conveyancing in Grays?

The sole saving you would make on is the disbursement for searches. The property lawyer is obliged to do the vast majority of work - money laundering, correspond with the sellers conveyancing practitioner, SDLT return, register the property etc. A marginal saving might be made by not having to register a mortgage however it will not be a lot.

Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unexperienced as a 1st time purchaser of a two bedroom flat in Grays. Do I pick up the keys to the house on completion from my solicitor? If so, I will instruct a local conveyancing solicitor in Grays?

On the day of completion you will not be required to attend the conveyancers office in Grays. Conveyancing lawyers for you will arrange to send the completion advance to the vendor’s lawyers, and once they have received this, you should be invited to pick up the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.

We expect to receive a OIP from UBS this week so we can work out what to offer on a property we like as otherwise we only have online calculators to go by (which aren't taking into account credit checks etc). Do UBS recommend any Grays solicitors on the UBS conveyancing panel, or is it better to find our own lawyer?

You will need to appoint Grays solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the UBS conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and UBS through the process.

My offer was accepted on an apartment in Grays on 20/2/2025, valuation was booked 3 days later, received a clean bill of health. Property lawyer appointed, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Nationwide and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?

Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Nationwide to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

I used Action Conveyancing several years ago for my conveyancing in Grays. I now require my file but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

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

Estate agents have just been given the go-ahead to market my 2 bed apartment in Grays. Conveyancing solicitors are to be appointed soon, but I have recently had a quarterly service charge demand – Do I pay up?

It best that you clear the invoice as you normally would as all ground rent and service payments should be apportioned on completion, so you will be reimbursed by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process.

I have tried to negotiate informally with with my landlord for a lease extension without any joy. Can a leaseholder make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal? Can you recommend a Grays conveyancing firm to help?

in cases where there is a missing freeholder or if there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to assess the price.

An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Grays premises is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case affected 13 flats. The unexpired term was 76 years.

We had our home loan approved on Monday with our lender. We are using a local conveyancer in Grays last week. Today, our financial adviser called to say that the bank said that we cannot use our solicitor as they aren't on their 'approved list'. As novices, we did not have a clue that the bank had a say Is this usual?

You can actually appoint any conveyancing solicitor you wish to instruct including the said conveyancer in Grays but if your lender aren't happy with them you must incur an extra fee so the mortgage company can instruct their own solicitors as well to protect their interest. On occasion it is possible your preferred conveyancing firm to get added to the lender panel. Do make the most of web-based tools such as lenderpanel.com to find a conveyancing solcitor in Grays on the mortgage company panel. You can go into your high street bank branch in Grays. They can recommend conveyancing solicitors in Grays on the panel for your bank.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Grays regulated by the SRA

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

  • Cumming & Riley, 11a High Street, Grays, Essex, RM17 6NB
  • M. Reynolds Partnership Solicitors, 24 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • Attwood & Co, 20 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • Hattens Solicitors, 90 Orsett Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5ER
  • Patrick Lawrence, 5 Railway Place, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 1AP

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Grays regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Grays with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Grays. This could include advice on granting a lease to a commercial tenant
  • Cumming & Riley, 11a High Street, Grays, Essex, RM17 6NB
  • Attwood & Co, 20 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • M. Reynolds Partnership Solicitors, 24 London Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5XY
  • Hattens Solicitors, 90 Orsett Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 5ER
  • Rex Cowells Solicitors Limited, Old Rectory Business Centre, Springhead Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8HN

Domestic conveyancing in Grays almost always consists of the following:

  • Conveyancer instructed by the purchaser once the offer has been accepted
  • Examining the title to the property
  • Ordering Grays searches with respect to the property
  • Reviewing draft contract pack and other documentation prepared the vendor’s solicitor
  • Submitting queries with the vendor’s solicitor
  • Negotiating the sale contract
  • Reviewing replies provided by the vendor to pre-contract enquiries
  • Negotiating a Transfer document
  • Guiding the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (if appropriate)
  • Drafting and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; reporting 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 completion of the purchase
  • Completing and submitting to HMRC the correct Land Tax forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration procedures for the new ownership and the home loan (if relevant) at the HM Land Registry.

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

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