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Reasons to use our Great Dunmow conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Using a a family Solicitor usually results in a more personal touch. Sometimes when dealing with a an online conveyancing factory, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who who update you by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.
  • 2 Conveyancer conveyancing firms have excellent personal links with Great Dunmow estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 3 Great Dunmow property lawyers have a significant edge when it comes to Great Dunmow conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that can impact your home move
  • 4 Our site is the first site that enables you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Great Dunmow will be conducted by a law firm on your bank conveyancing panel.
  • 5 Great Dunmow solicitors work in conjunction with Great Dunmow estate agents, property finders, surveyors, mortgage companies and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to buyers and sellers every step of the way, never losing sight of the time-critical nature behind your conveyancing transaction

Examples of recent conveyancing in Great Dunmow since March 2026*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Great Dunmow

My house in Great Dunmow is up for sale and I have a purchaser. Will the solicitor need to be on the Principality conveyancing panel in order to deal with the discharge of my mortgage?

Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Principality conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their specifications fairly frequently in recent years.

We are buying a house and the solicitor has identified Chancel Repair for which the property may be obligated to pay given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has mentioned insurance. Is this strictly appropriate for conveyancing in Great Dunmow

Unless a prior acquisition of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you may take it that lawyers handling conveyancing in Great Dunmow to continue to advocate a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

Me and my brother own a renovated Victorian property in Great Dunmow. Conveyancing practitioner represented me and Santander. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and I saw a couple of entries: the first freehold, another for leasehold under the matching property. I thought I was buying a freehold how can I check?

You should read the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Great Dunmow and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they mortgage they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also question the situation with the conveyancing lawyer who conducted the work.

I am buying my first flat in Great Dunmow with the aid of help to buy. The developers would not move on the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The estate agent told me not reveal to my conveyancer about the deal as it would impact my mortgage with the lender. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.

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 am looking into buying my first house which is in Great Dunmow and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Great Dunmow. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Great Dunmow area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Great Dunmow. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

Our bank agreed in principle to grant us a mortgage. We instructed a high street conveyancer in Great Dunmow yesterday. A couple of hours ago, our broker phoned to advise us that the bank said that we cannot use our solicitor as they aren't on their 'approved list'. As FTB's, we had no idea that the lender had a say Is this usual?

You are at liberty to use any property lawyer you want to select for your conveyancing in Great Dunmow but if your lender aren't happy with them you would have to fork out additional cost so your bank can instruct their own conveyancer too. sometimes it is conceivable that your solicitor may apply to get added to the bank list of approved firms. Do make the most of internet search facilities including lenderpanel.com to find a conveyancing solcitor in Great Dunmow on the mortgage company panel. You can go into your high street mortgage company branch in Great Dunmow. They can recommend conveyancing solicitors in Great Dunmow on the approved list.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Great Dunmow regulated by the SRA

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

  • Foort Tayler, 42 High Street, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH
  • Wade & Davies Limited, 28 High Street, Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH
  • Foort Tayler Limited, 42 High Street, Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Great Dunmow regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Great Dunmow practicing in commercial conveyancing in Great Dunmow. This may include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Foort Tayler, 42 High Street, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH
  • Wade & Davies Limited, 28 High Street, Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH
  • Foort Tayler Limited, 42 High Street, Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1AH

Domestic conveyancing in Great Dunmow ordinarily involves the following:

  • Lawyer instructed by the purchaser on acceptance of the offer
  • Investigating the title unregistered or registered
  • Undertaking Great Dunmow property searches for the title
  • Assessing draft sale agreement and other papers prepared the owner’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Raising enquiries with the seller’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Negotiating the purchase contract
  • Analysing replies given by the seller to pre-contract enquiries
  • Agreeing the wording for the Transfer Deed for completion
  • Guiding the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (where appropriate)
  • Drafting and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; summarising to the purchaser on the contents of the contract pack, preliminary enquiries and the result of the searches)
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion formalities
  • Preparing and submitting to HM Revenue and Customs the appropriate Land Tax forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration formalities for the transfer of ownership and the home loan (if applicable) at the HM Land Registry.

Neighboring Locations

Saffron Walden
Stansted
Great Dunmow
Ongar
Dunmow
Essex
Chelmsford
Great Baddow

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

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