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Reasons to use our Hillingdon conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these firms are often located hundreds of miles away with limited appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in Hillingdon
  • 2 This site is the only site that enables you the ability to ensure that your property ownership legalities in Hillingdon will be carried out by a conveyancer on your bank conveyancing panel.
  • 3 Hillingdon solicitors are likely to acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 4 Solicitors accustomed to conveyancing in Hillingdon regularly deal withlocal issues peculiar to Hillingdon and therefore you may benefit from better guidance and faster conveyancing.
  • 5 Solicitor conveyancing solicitors have excellent personal connections with Hillingdon estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Hillingdon since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Hillingdon

Can the conveyancing solicitors that are recommend handle auction conveyancing in Hillingdon?

There are a few auction practitioners we can put you in touch with those who can conduct auction conveyancing. Hillingdon is one of the many areas of where our lawyers are based.

The Hillingdon conveyancing firm that I recently instructed on my purchase in Hillingdon have without warning closed. They were on acting for me because I needed a solicitor on the RBS conveyancing panel and my family Hillingdon lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take one hundred and fifty pounds for searches. What do I do now?

If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the RBS conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors should be in a position to assist.

I just bought a flat at auction in Hillingdon. Conveyancing is required. What are my next steps?

Now that you have for in every practical sense signed on the dotted line you now have to choose a conveyancing solicitor as a matter of priority as you are faced with a tight a drop dead date to complete the deal. An auction property will ordinarily have a bespoke legal pack. This will include most,if not all of the documents that your conveyancer will need. In the case of leasehold property the conveyancing papers should include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork pertinent to leasehold premises. You need to hand this to the solicitor instructed by you as soon as possible. Do make sure that you have funds in place to complete on the on the contractual date .

I had a mortgage agreed in principle with Lloyds. Hillingdon conveyancing solicitors are instructed. How long does it take for Lloyds to send the offer to the property lawyer?

There is no definitive answer here. Have Lloyds done the survey? Have you advised Lloyds as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Lloyds conveyancing panel? Sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued.

After weeks of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Hillingdon. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their property lawyer. I paid an advanced payment of £225. Soon after, the lawyer contacted me to say that they were not on the Skipton conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Skipton panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

I am purchasing a property and the solicitor has identified Chancel Repair to which the property could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. She has mentioned insurance. Is this really warranted for conveyancing in Hillingdon

Unless a previous purchase of the property took place post 12 October 2013 you can take it that solicitors conducting conveyancing in Hillingdon to continue to advocate a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

It has been three months following my purchase conveyancing in Hillingdon concluded. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £200,000 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 premises 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.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Hillingdon is where the house is located. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in Hillingdon are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Hillingdon 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 Hillingdon 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 residence.

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Hillingdon regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Hillingdon specialising in commercial conveyancing in Hillingdon. This should include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Bana Vaid & Associates, 5 Marlborough Parade, Uxbridge Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex, UB10 0LR
  • E D C Lord & Co, Link House, 1200 Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 8JD
  • Bird & Lovibond, 3 Vine Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1RP
  • Iliffes Booth Bennett, Capital Court, 30 Windsor Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1AB
  • Capital Legal Solicitors, Darren House, 65 High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1JP

Planning law solicitors in Hillingdon regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Hillingdon with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including development on contaminated land
  • Iliffes Booth Bennett, Capital Court, 30 Windsor Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1AB
  • Turbervilles, Hill House, 118 High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1JT
  • Jay Visva Solicitors, First Floor, 784 Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 0RS
  • Harold Benjamin, Hill House, 67-71 Lowlands Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3EQ

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

    Sale or acquisition of commercial property investments, including at auction Land use planning and environmental issues Development, including options, overage agreements, JCT building contracts Subletting, licences and sharing occupation Advice on commercial mortgages Formation of commercial management companies

Neighboring Locations

Denham
Ickenham
Cowley
Uxbridge
Hillingdon
Yiewsley
Sipson
West Drayton
Hayes
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*Source acknowledgement: House price data produced by Land Registry as well data supplied by Lexsure Ltd.

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