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Reasons to use our Lickey End conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Lickey End solicitors will be familiar with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 2 Lickey End lawyer are the linchpin to a successful Lickey End conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your transaction
  • 3 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these companies are often based hundreds of miles away with limited appreciation of the factors that affect property transactions in Lickey End
  • 4 Peace of mind comes when you choose the very best, most recommended conveyancing solicitors. Lickey End has a number to select from, but for a truly professional and reliable service many local people have been use the endorsement of this site.
  • 5 Our site is the first site offering you the facility to check that your conveyancing in Lickey End will be carried out by a law firm on your lender’s approved panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Lickey End since August 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Lickey End

Willinstructing a Lickey End conveyancing solicitor make the legal transfer of property easier?

In the main conveyancing solicitors in your area will have strong connections with your local authority, which could assist with your Lickey End conveyancing searches that your conveyancer will require. It can only help if they enjoy good rapport with the Land Registry covering your area Lickey End, other conveyancers in the area and Lickey End Estate Agents.

Can you explain why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Lickey End costs more?

The conveyancing fees on a leasehold premises in Lickey End is inevitably more expensive when contrasted to a freehold acquisition or disposal. This is because there is an amount of additional time necessary in communicating with the landlord and managing agents to obtain evidence concerning whether the rent and maintenance charges have been cleared and whether there are any large sums expected to be spent in the near future on repairs or maintenance of the building.

I am purchasing a property and the conveyancer has raised the issue of Chancel Repair for which the house may be liable because it falls into the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this really required for conveyancing in Lickey End

Unless a prior purchase of the house completed post 12 October 2013 you could take it that solicitors delivering conveyancing in Lickey End to continue to recommend a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Lickey End. 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 conveyancing.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Lickey End

    Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme.

I decided to have a survey completed on a property in Lickey End prior to appointing lawyers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. My surveyor has said that some lenders may refuse to grant a mortgage on a flying freehold house.

It depends who your proposed lender is. Santander has different requirements for example to Halifax. Should you wish to call us we can check with the relevant bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Lickey End. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Lickey End to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

In relation to leasehold conveyancing in Lickey End what are the most frequent lease defects?

Leasehold conveyancing in Lickey End is not unique. Most leases are individual and legal mistakes in the legal wording can sometimes mean that certain clauses are missing. For example, if your lease is missing any of the following, it could be defective:

    Service charge per centages that don't add up correctly leaving a shortfall A duty to insure the building

You may encounter a problem when selling your property if you have a defective lease primarily because it impacts on the ability to obtain a mortgage on the property. Lloyds TSB Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclays Direct all have express conveyancing instructions when it comes to what is expected in a lease. Where a lender has been advised by their lawyers that the lease is problematic they may refuse to provide security, forcing the buyer to pull out.

Lickey End Leasehold Conveyancing - Sample of Questions you should ask Prior to Purchasing

    Who are the managing agents? The best form of lease structure is a share of the freehold. In this arrangement the tenants enjoy being in charge if their destiny and although a managing agent is usually employed if it is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves. Plenty Lickey End leasehold flats will be liable to pay a service charge for the upkeep of the block set on behalf of the landlord. Should you acquire the apartment you will have to meet this amount, normally quarterly throughout the year. This could be anything from two or three hundred pounds to thousands of pounds for large purpose-built blocks. There will also be a ground rent for you to pay annual, this is usually not a significant sum, say approximately £25-£75 but you should to enquire as on occasion it could be prohibitively expensive.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Lickey End regulated by the SRA

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

  • Thomas Horton Llp, Strand House, 70 The Strand, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B61 8DQ
  • Gordon Jones And Co Limited, 137 New Road, Rubery, Rednal, Birmingham, West Midlands, B45 9JR
  • Carvill & Johnson Llp, Victoria House, 966-972 Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, B31 2PE
  • Astwood Law, 39 Prospect Hill, Redditch, Worcestershire, B97 4BS
  • David Bunn & Co, 886 Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, B31 2NS

What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in Lickey End?

Licensed Conveyancers support the transfer of ownership of a property from one person to another and cover conveyancing throughout England and Wales not just Lickey End. If appointed a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you are entitled to:
  • Have an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Be supplied with a high standard of legal services.
  • Be supplied with your matters dealt with using care, skill and legal competence.
  • Be supplied with a high standard of service due to your conveyancer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Have a service which is accessible and responsive to your specific requirements.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • To receive the standard you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Ensure your specific needs taken into account should you make a complaint.
  • Have a speedy, impartial and comprehensive service where making a complaint about your conveyancing in Lickey End about your conveyancing in Lickey End.

Residential in Lickey End 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 the appropriate parties
  • Checking the title unregistered or registered
  • Undertaking Lickey End property searches for the title
  • Considering the draft contract pack and other documentation collated by the owner’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Raising enquiries with the owner’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Negotiating the sale agreement
  • Assessing replies given by the seller to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Negotiating the Transfer Deed for completion
  • Advising the purchasing in respect of the mortgage offer: (where applicable)
  • Preparing and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion of the purchase
  • Completion of and submitting to HMRC the correct stamp duty forms and payment
  • Registering the change in ownership and the home loan (if applicable) at the HMLR.

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