Would the conveyancing lawyers via your comparison service execute conveyancing in Ilford by way of an attended exchange?
There are a few conveyancing experts who can conduct 24hr exchanges. Please e-mail us to secure a fee calculation and details as to dates.
Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Ilford even if I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for example where I wish to buy a shop in Ilford with a mortgage from Birmingham Midshires?
The service is primarily utilised to select residential conveyancing solicitors in Ilford but we have listed at the bottom of this page a selection of Ilford commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to enquire with the solicitors directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Birmingham Midshires
I have a decision in principle. The lender mentioned the home loan came with free conveyancing. Does this mean I have to instruct their panel lawyer as I would prefer to appoint a Ilford based conveyancing firm?
Do check but the the probability is that allocate you one of their panel lawyers if you take up the "fee-free" deal. Contact the bank to check if they allow a monetary alternative. It is not unheard for a lender to give a £250 cashback as an alternative in which case you could put that amount towards your preferred conveyancing solicitor near Ilford.
I am the only recipient of my late grandmother’s estate and I have everything in my name now, including the my former home in Ilford. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in September. I now wish to sell up. I do know about the CML 6 month 'rule', meaning my proprietorship may be treated the same way as though I had purchased the property in September. Do I have to wait 6 months to sell?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ handbook requires conveyancers to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." Technically you may be caught by that. Most banks would take a pragmatic view as this obligation is chiefly there to pick up on subsales or the flipping of property.
Completion of my remortgage has taken place for my property in Ilford. Conveyancing was of an acceptable standard but I would like to complain about the lender. How does one go about formally complaining?
Almost all lenders have complaints procedures. Your first port of call should be one of the lender’s branches or the Customer Services Department at head office. We understand that complaints to a lender are resolved very quickly. However if you are not satisfied that the matter is not resolved you can write to Financial Ombudsman Service who will take matters further.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Ilford on 12/8/2025, valuation was booked 4 days later, all came back fine. Solicitor retained, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Virgin Money and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. Are Virgin Money entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Virgin Money to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I am looking into buying my first house which is in Ilford and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Ilford. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Ilford area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Ilford. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found
I am attracted to a couple of flats in Ilford which have approximately 50 years left on the leases. Should I regard a short lease as a deal breaker?
There are no two ways about it. A leasehold flat in Ilford is a wasting asset as a result of the shortening lease. The closer the lease gets to zero years unexpired, the more it reduces the value of the premises. The majority of buyers and banks, leases with less than eighty years become less and less attractive. On a more positive note, leaseholders can extend their leases by serving a Section 42 Notice. One stipulation is that they must have owned the property for two years (unlike a Section 13 notice for purchasing the freehold, when leaseholders can participate from day one of ownership). When successful, they will have the right to an extension of 90 years to the current term and ground rent is effectively reduced to zero. Before moving forward with a purchase of a property with a short lease term remaining you should talk to a solicitor specialising in lease extensions and leasehold enfranchisement. We are are happy to put you in touch with Ilford conveyancing experts who will explain the options available to you during an initial telephone conversation free of charge. A more straightforward and quicker method of extending would be to contact your landlord directly and sound him out on the prospect of extending the lease. They may agree to a smaller lump sum and an increase in the ground rent, but to shorter extension terms in return. You need to ensure that any new terms represent good long-term value compared with the standard benefits of the Section 42 Notice and that onerous clauses are not inserted into any redrafting of the lease.
I am the proprietor of a two-bedroom flat in Ilford. Given that I can not reach agreement with the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal make a decision on the sum due for a lease extension?
if there is a missing freeholder or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to determine the price payable.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Ilford premises is 49 Aldborough Road South in July 2012. The Tribunal decided that the premium payable for the grant of the new lease was £13,925 This case was in relation to 1 flat. The remaining number of years on the lease was 61.36 years.