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Reasons to use our Honor Oak conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Honor Oak solicitors have a significant advantage when it comes to Honor Oak conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your sale or purchase
  • 2 Honor Oak conveyancers will have connections at the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and property agents
  • 3 Over the years Honor Oak lawyer have developed valuable working relationships with Honor Oak local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and house builders enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of undertaking your home move in Honor Oak.
  • 4 There is a strong possibility the the solicitors for the other party have offices in Honor Oak - if so both parties will be familiar
  • 5 Using a local Solicitor in the main means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, you tend to be looked after by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Honor Oak since August 2024*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Honor Oak

We see that you have a post code search directory identifying firms on the TSB conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I appoint them for our conveyancing in Honor Oak?

We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the TSB conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Honor Oak.

I am helping my aunt sell her property in Honor Oak. Does the conveyancer order an EPC or it is for the owner to see to?

After the demise of HIPs, EPC’s was maintained a compulsory component of moving property. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned in advance of the property being placed on the market. This is not something that solicitors normally arrange. If you are using a Honor Oak conveyancing solicitor they may be able to arrange energy assessments given their relationships with reputable Honor Oak energy assessors

My wife and I purchasing a victorian detached house in Honor Oak. We would like to convert the garage to a playroom at the property.Will legal due diligence on the property include enquiries to determine if these alterations are allowed?

Your property lawyer will review the registered title as conveyancing in Honor Oak will on occasion reveal restrictions in the title documents which prevent categories of changes or necessitated the consent of a 3rd party. Some extensions call for local authority planning consent and approval in accordance building regulations. Some areas are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or affect extensions. You should check these issues with a surveyor ahead of any purchase.

Our offer on a detached house in Honor Oak has been accepted, but there is a chain. The vendors have offered on a property, but it’s not yet tied up, and are looking at other apartments in the pipeline. I have instructed a local conveyancing solicitor in Honor Oak. What should be my next step? When should I get the mortgage application with Principality started?

It is usual to have apprehensions where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket prematurely (home loan application is in the region of £1k, then valuation, Honor Oak conveyancing search costs, etc). The first thing to do is check that your conveyancing practitioner is on the Principality conveyancing panel. Concerning the next phase this very much dictated by the circumstances of your transaction, motivation for the property and on the state of the market. In a buoyant market many home buyers would apply for the mortgage with Principality and arrange for the valuation and only if it was satisfactory would they ask their conveyancing practitioner to proceed with searches.

About to purchase a new build flat in Honor Oak. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Here is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Honor Oak

    The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. Please supply a car parking plan. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose?

I opted to have a survey carried out on a house in Honor Oak in advance of retaining solicitors. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. Our surveyor advised that some lenders may not grant a loan on such a home.

It depends who your proposed lender is. Lloyds has different instructions for example to Nationwide. Should you wish to telephone us we can investigate further via the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Honor Oak. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Honor Oak to see if the conveyancing will be more expensive.

My business partner and I are wishing to take over a lease of an office on the high street. Can you recommend conveyancers offering competitive costs for non-domestic conveyancing in Honor Oak for under 1500k?

We can recommend firms who host a wealth of experience of commercial conveyancing in Honor Oak, including the sale and purchase of businesses as well as simply property. Whether you are intending to acquire or dispose of a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit or a complete business we will put you in touch with the right firm. As for the fees this will depend on the structure and terms of the proposed transaction. Let us have your details or call so as to enable us to supply you with a fixed commercial conveyancing quote.

I am looking for a conveyancing solicitor in Honor Oak for my remortgage. Is it possible to check a solicitor's record with the profession’s regulator?

One may read documented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions arising from investigations from 2008 onwards. Visit Check a solicitor's record. To find information about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a solicitors history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. For callers outside the UK, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator may monitor call for training reasons.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Honor Oak regulated by the SRA

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

  • Frank Stimpson & Son, 179 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 1HR
  • Glazer Delmar, 27-31 North Cross Road, East Dulwich, London, SE22 9ET
  • Hall & Co, 399 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, SE22 8JN
  • Armstrong & Co, 2 Dartmouth Road, London, SE23 3XU
  • Gans & Co Solicitors Llp, 214-216 Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4NL

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Honor Oak

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Honor Oak specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Terms and conditions of tenancy agreements

  • Bridges Solicitors, 5 Turnham Road, Brockley, London, London, SE4 2HH
  • Waterdenes Solicitors, 367 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2AG
  • Frank Stimpson & Son, 179 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 1HR
  • May Morris & Co, 9b Perry Vale, London, SE23 2NE
  • Ineyab Solicitors, 20 - 22, Brockley Cross, Brockley, London, SE4 2AA

Planning law solicitors in Honor Oak regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Honor Oak practicing in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including tree preservation orders
  • Beverley Morris & Co Incorporating Peter Egan & Co, 62 Lewisham High Street, London, London, SE13 5JH
  • Beverley Morris & Co, 35 Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Villiage, London, SE3 0TJ
  • William Innes, 56 Crescent Lane, London, SW4 9PU
  • Streathers Clapham Llp, 53 Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7TG
  • A E Short, 144 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 6PG

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

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