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Reasons to use our Lichfield conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Lichfield lawyers have a crucial edge when it comes to Lichfield conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can affect your sale or purchase
  • 2 The practices listed on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing practitioners, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases each year.
  • 3 The Lichfield conveyancing firms that we work with are committed to providing value for money, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Lichfield
  • 4 Our site is the first site that enables you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Lichfield will be carried out by a conveyancer on your lender’s approved panel.
  • 5 Lichfield solicitor are the key to a successful Lichfield conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your move

Examples of recent conveyancing in Lichfield since January 2025*

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Disposal

of flat Sandford Gate WS13 6FJ, at buying sum of £255,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries

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Sale

of terraced premises, Cairns Close, WS14 9TP completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £235,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, obtaining official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

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Transfer

of semi-detached residence, Beacon Street, WS13 7BG completing on 15/01/2025 at a price of £407,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s solicitor

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Sale

of semi-detached residence, Manor Rise, WS14 9RF completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £268,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, agreeing completion date with parties, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s conveyancer

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Lichfield

My wife and I are planning to purchase a flat in Lichfield and are in fact using a Lichfield conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our property lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Yorkshire Building Society have this morning contacted us to inform me that there is now an issue as our Lichfield lawyer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?

Where you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' lawyers to also act for the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your bank and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the bank's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Lichfield solicitors, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.

Me and my wife are purchasing our first property. Our property lawyer has messagedto see if we want to take out extra conveyancing searches. We are really unsure what's relevant for conveyancing in Lichfield

The scope of Lichfield conveyancing searches should be dictated entirely on the premises, the location, the possibility of any of these risks, your knowledge of the locality and risks, your overall appetite to risk. What is important is that you properly comprehend what information each search could supply. You may then decide if you personally think you need that search. If uncertain, ask your conveyancing practitioner to guide you.

I have just over seventy years left on my lease and need a lease extension for my apartment in Lichfield. Conveyancing solicitors on the Bank of Ireland panel can deal with such extensions right?

Most leasehold conveyancing experts should be able to deal with a lease extension. if you are getting a mortgage then your lender may insist that the lease be extended before competition. Bank of Ireland have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook in relation to minimum unexpired lease terms. As of 11/4/2025 the requirements read as follows :

Yes, subject to a minimum lease term of 85 years. The unexpired lease term must be at least the mortgage term plus 45 years. See also 5.14.9

I am buying a new build flat in Lichfield. Conveyancing is daunting 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.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Lichfield

    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. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. 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. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry.

Due to the input of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Lichfield ahead of appointing conveyancers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. My surveyor has said that some mortgage companies may refuse to give a mortgage on a flying freehold premises.

It depends who your proposed lender is. HSBC has different requirements for example to Halifax. If you contact us we can look into this further with the relevant mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Lichfield. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Lichfield to see if the conveyancing will be more expensive.

Having had my offer accepted I require leasehold conveyancing in Lichfield. Before I get started I require certainty as to the unexpired term of the lease.

If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and almost all are in Lichfield - 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.

Lichfield Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - Examples of Queries before Purchasing

    If a Lichfield lease has fewer than eighty years it will impact the marketability of the property. It is worth checking with your bank that they are content with residual term of the lease. Leases with fewer than 80 years remaining means that you will almost definitely have to extend the lease sooner rather than later and it is worth finding out how much this would cost. For most Lichfieldlease extensions you will be be obliged to have been the owner of the premises for 24 months in order to be eligible to exercise a lease extension. What prohibitions are contained in the Lichfield Lease? On the whole the outlay for major works tend not to be incorporated into the maintenance charges, albeit that some managing agents in Lichfield require tenants to pay into a sinking fund created for the specific purpose of building a fund for larger works.

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Lichfield regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Lichfield specialising in commercial conveyancing in Lichfield. This will likely include advice on granting a lease to a commercial tenant
  • Moseleys, Compton House, 18 Bore Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6LL
  • Keelys Llp, 28 Dam Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6AA
  • Southwell Mott, 25 Lombard Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6DP
  • Adcocks Solicitors Limited, Chancery House, 27 Lombard Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6DP
  • Nicholas Gee, 1 Loxton Close, Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B74 4HY

What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in Lichfield?

Licensed Conveyancers support the transfer of ownership of a property from one person to another and cover conveyancing nationwide not just Lichfield. If instructing a Licensed Conveyancer regulated by the CLC, you can expect:
  • Be supplied with an honest and lawful service.
  • Have a high standard of legal services.
  • Enjoy the benefit of your matters dealt with using care, skill and legal know-how.
  • Have a high standard of service due to your lawyer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Receive a service which is accessible and responsive to your individual needs.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • Not receive a service which is below the standard you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Ensure your individual needs taken into account should a complaint be necessary.
  • Have a swift, impartial and comprehensive service if if a complaint is made about your conveyancing in Lichfield.

Transfer of Equity conveyancing in Lichfield is a complex business, both legally and administratively. The exact order of events varies slightly, below are some of the tasks in the process:

  • Taking instructions from parties involved
  • Collating the documents evidencing the title to the property
  • Following instructions from the mortgage company (if appropriate)
  • Negotiating the terms of the transaction
  • Drawing up Transfer or approving draft Transfer
  • Agreeing adjustments to the draft Transfer
  • Communicating with parties concerning the Transfer
  • Agreeing and preparing for completion
  • Receiving and releasing funds to the appropriate parties
  • Preparing and submitting to HM Revenue and Customs the appropriate SDLT forms and payment
  • Registering the change in proprietorship and the home loan (where relevant) at the HMLR.

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

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