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Reasons to use our Keelby conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Keelby solicitors work in partnership with Keelby estate agents, house builders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to buyers and sellers every step of the way, ensuring the smoothest, most stress-free process possible
  • 2 Keelby property lawyers have a crucial edge when it comes to Keelby conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that will impact your sale or purchase
  • 3 Solicitors that specialise in conveyancing in Keelby are familiar with the local issues specific to Keelby and therefore you may benefit from better advice and faster conveyancing.
  • 4 The Keelby conveyancing firms that are identified are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and transparent conveyancing service to borrowers, sellers and investors in Keelby
  • 5 Retaining the services of a high street Solicitor on the whole means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a large conveyancing firm, 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.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Keelby since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Keelby

When does exchange of contracts occur in domestic conveyancing in Keelby and do I need to attend the solicitors office?

If you are near to one of the conveyancing solicitors in Keelby you are invited in to sign documents. However, the law practices we work with supply a countrywide conveyancing service and give as equally comprehensive and professional a job for you when communicating with you digitally. The executing of the purchase agreement is not when everything is set in stone. Signing on the dotted line is necessary for the firm to address the formalities at the suitable time, which is ordinarily shortly after signing. The exchange process is is usually a five minute process, although where an extended "chain" is in play, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in Keelby)to be in the office available at the end of the phone to exchange contracts.

We just had an offer accepted to buy with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. We have called around locally yet am unable to find a Keelby conveyancing firm on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel. Please you assist?

You should take advantage of the search tool on this web page. Please choose the building society and type Keelby or your location and you will be presented with numerous conveyancers offices in Keelby or by proximity to you.

My wife and I have arranged a further advance on our home loan from Kent Reliance as we intend to conduct alterations to our home in Keelby. Are we obliged to appoint a local Keelby solicitor on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel to deal with the paperwork?

Kent Reliance would not normally require firms on their conveyancing panel to deal with the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Kent Reliance panel.

I'm at the point of viewing houses in Keelby and I am now considering a potential offer. Should I already have a conveyancer appointed at this point? I intend to finance via a home loan with Leeds Building Society.

It would be advisable to commence your search sooner rather than later. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their details on to the estate agent. Given that you are taking out a mortgage with Leeds Building Society, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel.

After shopping around on the internet I have found a Keelby solicitor having made sure that they are on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Does my lawyer arrange the survey of the property?

Lloyds will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Lloyds will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own Keelby surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller.

Is it necessary to take out insurance to address the risk of chancel repairs when purchasing a house in Keelby?

Unless a previous purchase of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you could assume that lawyers handling conveyancing in Keelby to continue to suggest a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my home are lost. The solicitors who did the conveyancing in Keelby 4 years ago have long since closed. What are my next steps?

As long as you have a registered title the details of your proprietorship will be documented by the Land Registry under a Title Number. It is easy to execute a search at the Land Registry, find your house and secure up to date copies of the Registered Entries for a small fee. Where the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will usually retain a certified copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be retrieved for £20 inclusive of VAT.

I am buying a new build house in Keelby with a loan from Barclays Direct. The builders refused to move on the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The property agent advised me not inform my solicitor about the side-deal as it could put at risk my loan with the bank. Should I keep quiet?.

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.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Keelby regulated by the SRA

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

  • Keith R Thompson & Co, Craik Hill Chambers, Craik Hill Avenue, Immingham, South Humberside, DN40 1LP

Whether you are going through a divorce or separation or simply wish to transfer your property to someone else, transfer of equity conveyancing in Keelby includes some of the following tasks:

  • Taking instructions from parties involved
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Acting on behalf of the mortgage company (if appropriate)
  • Negotiating the terms of the transaction
  • Drawing up Transfer or approving the Transfer deed
  • Agreeing amendments to the draft Transfer
  • Communicating with parties with regards to the Transfer
  • Agreeing and preparing for completion
  • Receiving and transferring monies to relevant parties
  • Preparing and submitting to HMRC the correct Land Tax forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration procedures for the transfer of ownership and the mortgage (if relevant) at the HMLR.

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

    Offices, shops or industrial units complex procedures concerning renewal, rent reviews, dilapidations and the many obligations encountered by Landlords and Tenants of business premises Advice on commercial mortgages Property realisations and advice for insolvency practitioners Subletting, licences and sharing occupation

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

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