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Hinckley Conveyancing Statistics*

  • 1 The most common indemnity insurance policies for Hinckley conveyancing is Restrictive Covenant
  • 2 Percentage of cases in Hinckley that are buy to let is 20%
  • 3 Average Land Registry Fee for this year to date was £270
  • 4 100% freehold and 0% leasehold conveyancing in Hinckley for this year to date
  • 5 Average time frame of 504 days for registration of title in Hinckley

Examples of recent conveyancing in Hinckley since January 2025*

Disposal

of house residence, Highfields Road, LE10 1UU completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £192,500. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, preparing statement detailing charges, sending title deeds and executed transfer to purchaser’s conveyancer

Disposal

of semi premises, Eastwoods Road, LE10 1LH completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £411,500. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of semi-detached property, Indigo Drive, LE10 2QJ completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £290,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and signed transfer to purchaser’s conveyancer

Sale

of detached residence premises, Squires Green, LE10 2SY completing on 24/01/2025 at a price of £282,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Hinckley

We are about to exchange contracts for a leasehold flat in Hinckley. We have hit a problem. Our loan offer with The Royal Bank of Scotland expires on 24/6/2025 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 26/6/2025. Is it possible to prolong the mortgage expiry date?

The best person to address this issue is your solicitors who will hopefully assess whether they better off negotiating with the bank, owner’s lawyers, estate agents or indeed all parties taking into account what has gone on in your house move as of today.

We wanted to use a conveyancing solicitor in Hinckley for our house purchase. Our broker has since notified us that our bank National Westminster Bank won't deal with them. Surely this is unduly restrictive?

A bank can require an approved conveyancer act for it. You would be liable to meet the cost of this. Please make use of our database to choose a solicitor to conduct conveyancing in Hinckley on the National Westminster Bank approved list of solicitors.

My relative suggested that if I am buying in Hinckley I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Hinckley conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Hinckley around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Hinckley Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Hinckley Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Hinckley.

I moved into my house on 16 April and the transaction details is yet to be on the land registry website. Any reason for this? My conveyancing solicitor in Hinckley expressed confidence that it would be formalised inside ten days. Are titles in Hinckley particularly slow to register?

As far as conveyancing in Hinckley registration is no faster or slower than the rest of the country. As opposed to being determined by geographic area, timescales can adjust subject to who lodges the application, whether it is in order and whether the Land registry communicate with any third parties. At present roughly three quarters of such applications are fully dealt with within 12 days but occasionally there can be longer hold-ups. Registration occurs after the purchaser is living at the property thus 'speed' is not usually primary concern yet where it is urgent that the the registration takes place urgently then you or your lawyers can communicate with the Registry to express the reasoning for an expedited registration.

I am buying a new build flat in Hinckley. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Here are examples of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Hinckley

    Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Hinckley regulated by the SRA

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

  • Green & Olive Legal Limited, Hollybush Inn, Upper Bond Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1RH
  • Thomas Flavell & Sons Limited, Church Walk, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1DN
  • David Bendell & Co, Catherine House, 10 Coventry Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0JT
  • K A Mccole Limited, 15 Station Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1AW
  • Geoffrey Hill & Co, 11 Station Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1AW

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Hinckley

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Hinckley specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on wrongful eviction

  • Green & Olive Legal Limited, Hollybush Inn, Upper Bond Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1RH
  • Thomas Flavell & Sons Limited, Church Walk, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1DN
  • Geoffrey Hill & Co, 11 Station Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1AW
  • Tustain Jones & Co, 18 Ptarmigan Place, Off Townsend Drive, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 6RX
  • Cocks Lloyd, Riversley House, Coton Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 5TX

Typically, Hinckley conveyancing for a sale includes some of the following tasks

  • Taking instructions from parties involved
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Drawing up the contract and associated papers
  • Supplying draft papers to the solicitor retained by the purchaser
  • Finalising the wording for contracts and replying to supplemental queries from the purchaser’s solicitor
  • Finalising the transfer deed
  • Replying to requisitions raised by the purchaser’s solicitor
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion of the sale
  • Receiving sale proceeds and transferring funds to the vendor, the estate agent and other relevant parties (if applicable)

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

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