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Main reasons to let us assist you find a high street conveyancing solicitor in Hersham

  • 1 Personal touch and a wealth of expertise are key benefits that you should seek when selecting conveyancing solicitors. Hersham home moves can be made a lot more protracted as a result of poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers listed ensure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments expeditiously.
  • 2 Experience means that Hersham property lawyer have established very good working relationships with Hersham local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of undertaking your house sale or purchase in Hersham.
  • 3 The Hersham conveyancing practitioners that we work with are committed to supplying the most cost, efficient and transparent conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and investors in Hersham
  • 4 Conveyancer conveyancing firms have very good personal connections with Hersham selling agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 5 Firms accustomed to conveyancing in Hersham have a grasp oflocal issues specific to Hersham and therefore you may benefit from better guidance and speedier conveyancing.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Hersham since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Hersham

Please could you vouch for a Accord Mortgages Ltd sanctioned Hersham conveyancing firm that can complete within a short deadline? Am I best advised to choose a local Hersham conveyancer or an internet conveyancer?

We can recommend some very good Hersham conveyancing firms. Another option is to visit the high street in Hersham. Visit some well established firms and request to see a conveyancing solicitor for a fee estimate. Mention your expectations together with your reasons and ask for a commitment on speed. Select the one that appears most efficient.

We're in Hersham, FTBs buying with a mortgage (lender is Kent Reliance , and our solicitor is on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no conveyancing practitioner should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.

Will our solicitor be raising questions about flooding as part of the conveyancing in Hersham.

The risk of flooding is if increasing concern for lawyers conducting conveyancing in Hersham. Plenty of people will purchase a property in Hersham, completely expectant that at some time, it may be flooded. However, aside from the physical destruction, if a property is at risk of flooding, it may be difficult to get a mortgage, adequate building insurance, or dispose of the property. There are steps that can be taken during the course of a house purchase to forewarn the purchaser.

Solicitors are not best placed to give advice on flood risk, however there are a various searches that may be undertaken by the buyer or by their conveyancers which will give them a better appreciation of the risks in Hersham. The conventional set of property information forms supplied to a purchaser’s lawyer (where the solicitors are adopting what is known as the Conveyancing Protocol) contains a usual inquiry of the owner to determine whether the premises has historically flooded. If the property has been flooded in past which is not notified by the seller, then a buyer may commence a compensation claim stemming from an incorrect reply. A purchaser’s conveyancers may also commission an environmental search. This will disclose if there is any known flood risk. If so, more detailed inquiries will need to be made.

five months have gone by following my purchase conveyancing in Hersham took place. I have checked the Land Registry site which shows that I paid £175,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?

The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the residence from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in two weeks back in what should have been a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. Hersham is where the house is located. Can you offer any assistance?

Flying freeholds in Hersham are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Hersham you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Hersham may determine 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 premises.

As co-executor for the estate of my father I am disposing of a house in Monmouth but reside in Hersham. My solicitor (approximately 235 miles from meneeds me to execute a statutory declaration ahead of the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Hersham to attest and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you should not need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are based in Hersham

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Hersham regulated by the SRA

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

  • Nichols Marcy Dawson, Portman House, Colby Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 2RN
  • Guillaumes Llp, The Bellbourne, 103 High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QE
  • Atkins & Co, Thames House, 77a High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QA
  • Galloway Hughes Llp, Aissela, 46 High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QY
  • Trevor Munn, Easterly Boathouse, The Towpath, Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 2PF

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Hersham

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Hersham specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This should include advice on service charge disputes and the right to manage

  • Guillaumes Llp, The Bellbourne, 103 High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QE
  • Galloway Hughes Llp, Aissela, 46 High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QY
  • Dixcart Legal Limited, Hillbrow House, Hillbrow Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9NW
  • Trevor Munn, Easterly Boathouse, The Towpath, Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 2PF
  • Hunter Peddell Property Law, Oak House, 39/41 The Parade, Claygate, Esher, Surrey, KT10 0PB

Planning law solicitors in Hersham regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Hersham specialising in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including compulsory purchases in Hersham
  • Galloway Hughes Llp, Aissela, 46 High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QY
  • Hunter Peddell Property Law, Oak House, 39/41 The Parade, Claygate, Esher, Surrey, KT10 0PB
  • Mundays Llp, Cedar House, 78 Portsmouth Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1AN

Neighboring Locations

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

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