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Top reasons to let us help you select a local conveyancing solicitor in Houghton Le Spring

  • 1 Houghton Le Spring solicitor are the key to a successful Houghton Le Spring conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your transaction
  • 2 Over the years Houghton Le Spring lawyer have developed excellent working relationships with Houghton Le Spring local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of handling your house sale or purchase in Houghton Le Spring.
  • 3 Retaining the services of a high street Solicitor generally means that you will receive 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 check what is happening on the file by reading from their computer screens.
  • 4 Notwithstanding what alternative sites tell you it could be important to pop into your conveyancer to sign documents. Too many 3rd parties are already involved in a house sale without needing to include the postman into the equation.
  • 5 This site is the first site offering you the facility to ensure that your property ownership legalities in Houghton Le Spring will be conducted by a solicitor on your lender’s conveyancing panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Houghton Le Spring since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Houghton Le Spring

I am searching for value for money property lawyer. Do I opt for a national conveyancer rather than a high street Houghton Le Spring conveyancing lawyer?

Houghton Le Spring is a unique place, where regional insight counts for a lot. The laid-back lifestyle is great – just not for your home move. The conveyancers that we recommend display wide Houghton Le Spring know how with a proactive, hands-onapproach that ensures everything runs smoothly. It will certainly help if they benefit from well established relationships with mortgage brokers, search providers, valuers and counterpart Houghton Le Spring conveyancing solicitors

I'm buying my first flat in Houghton Le Spring with a loan from Aldermore. The developers refused to budge the price so I negotiated 6k of extras instead. The sale representative advised me not reveal to my solicitor about the extras as it may put at risk my loan with the bank. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer 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 have been on the look out for a leasehold apartment up to £305k and identified one close by in Houghton Le Spring I like with open areas and railway links nearby, however it's only got 49 years unexpired on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Houghton Le Spring suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?

If you require a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be an issue. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the premises for at least 2 years you may request that they commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor regarding this matter.

What does commercial conveyancing in Houghton Le Spring cover?

Non domestic conveyancing in Houghton Le Spring covers a wide range of advice, offered by regulated solicitors, relating to business premises. By way of example, this type of conveyancing can cover the sale or purchase of freehold business premises or, more usually, the transfer of existing business tenancies or the drafting of new leasing arrangements. Commercial conveyancing solicitors can also offer advice on the sale of business assets, commercial loans and the termination of tenancies.

I am in need of some leasehold conveyancing in Houghton Le Spring. Before I set the wheels in motion I require certainty as to the number of years remaining on the lease.

If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and 99.9% are in Houghton Le Spring - then the leasehold title will always include the basic details of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.

I inherited a leasehold flat in Houghton Le Spring, conveyancing was carried out 10 years ago. Can you let me have an estimate of the premium that my landlord can legally expect in return for granting a renewal of my lease? Comparable flats in Houghton Le Spring with over 90 years remaining are worth £201,000. The ground rent is £45 invoiced annually. The lease finishes on 21st October 2090

You have 65 years left to run we estimate the price of your lease extension to range between £13,300 and £15,400 plus costs.

The suggested premium range above a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we are not able to supply a more accurate figure in the absence of comprehensive due diligence. You should not use the figures in tribunal or court proceedings. There are no doubt other concerns that need to be considered and you obviously should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.

After what seems like an age I have had an offer on an flat in Houghton Le Spring accepted, but there is a chain. The vendors have put an offer on somewhere, but it’s not been accepted yet, and has viewings of other flats in the pipeline. I have chosen a nearby conveyancing lawyer in Houghton Le Spring. What should be my next step? At what point should I apply for the mortgage with RBS?

It is usual to have anxieties where there is an associated chain as you are unlikely to want to incur expenses prematurely (home loan application is in the region of £1k, then survey, Houghton Le Spring conveyancing search costs, etc). The first thing to do is check that your lawyer is on the RBS approved list. Regarding the next steps this very much dictated by the uniqueness of your transaction, desire for the property and on the state of the market. During a hot market many home buyers would apply for the mortgage with RBS and pay for the survey and only if it comes back ok would they pay their conveyancer to press on with searches.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Houghton Le Spring regulated by the SRA

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

  • Sherwood-smith Tilley & Co, Britannic Chambers, Po Box 4, 92/94 Newbottle Street, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 4AJ
  • Cullen Hammond Limited, Regus House, 4 Admiral Way, Doxford International Business, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR3 3XW
  • Nigel J Humes & Co, 3-5 High Chare, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3PX
  • Gordon Brown Law Firm Llp, Mains House, 143 Front Street, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3AU
  • Richmond Anderson Goudie Part Of The Richmond Partnership, Flake Cottages, Cone Terrace, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3TA

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Houghton Le Spring

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Houghton Le Spring practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This should include advice on wrongful eviction

  • Hodgson Coulthard & Co, Glendale House, 10 Church Street, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 4DN
  • Gordon Brown Law Firm Llp, Mains House, 143 Front Street, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3AU
  • Richmond Anderson Goudie Part Of The Richmond Partnership, Flake Cottages, Cone Terrace, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3TA
  • Red Chevron Legal Services Ltd, Mowbray Villas, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7EA
  • Sweeney Miller Llp, Mowbray Villas, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7EA

Planning law solicitors in Houghton Le Spring regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Houghton Le Spring specialising in planning law. This will likely include advice on applications about listed buildings and conservation areas
  • Longden Walker And Renney (solicitors) Limited, 14 John Street, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1 1HZ
  • Swinburne Maddison Llp, Venture House, Aykley Heads Business Centre, Durham, County Durham, DH1 5TS

Neighboring Locations

Penshaw
Washington
South Hylton
Silsworth
Sunderland
Houghton Le Spring
Murton
Hetton Le Hole

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

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