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If you have reached us by Googling ‘Conveyancing in Montacute’ follow your intuition — you will have a better house move where you instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Montacute.

Reasons to use our Montacute conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Retaining the services of a high street Solicitor usually means that you will receive a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, your matter is dealt with by a team of people who who progress matters by reading from their computer screens.
  • 2 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these organisations are often based hundreds of kilometers away with limited appreciation of the factors that affect property transactions in Montacute
  • 3 This site is the only site offering you the facility to ensure that your property ownership legalities in Montacute will be conducted by a solicitor on your lender’s approved panel.
  • 4 Montacute solicitor are the linchpin to a successful Montacute conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 5 Solicitor conveyancing lawyers have valuable personal connections with Montacute estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Montacute since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Montacute

My nephew is about to exchange on a newly built flat in Montacute with a mortgage from Skipton. His conveyancer has said that there is a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. Who needs to receive the form?

The form is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the purchase. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Skipton conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the valuer when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Skipton conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

Finally the sale completed on my house in Montacute last December but our buyer keeps whats apping every few hours to say her conveyancer is waiting to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?

Following your disposal your solicitor is obliged to forward the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Where appropriate, your conveyancer should also send confirmation that the home loan has been redeemed to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion steps peculiar conveyancing in Montacute.

This question may be naive but I am new to the home moving as a 1st time buyer of a garden flat in Montacute. Do I receive the keys to the premises on completion from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will appoint a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Montacute?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Conveyancing lawyers for you will transfer the completion advance to the seller's lawyers, and once they have received this, you will be called to receive the keys from the Estate Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this happens early afternoon.

Are all Montacute Conveyancing Quality Solicitors on the Principality conveyancing panel?

A selection of banks and building societies now use the accreditation scheme as the starting point for Panel approval such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS accreditation however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. That being said,the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for solicitor practices wishing to remain on their approved list of conveyancing solicitors.

I have paid off my mortgage with Nationwide. I assume I don't need a Montacute conveyancer on the Nationwide panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your Nationwide mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Nationwide mortgage from the register. Nationwide, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

  1. but are not moving to another property
  2. where Nationwide has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Nationwide has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Nationwide mortgage has been paid off.

I need some fast conveyancing in Montacute as I am under a deadline to exchange contracts within 2 weeks. Fortunately I do not require a mortgage. Is it possible to escape the need for conveyancing searches to save money and time?

If.Given you are not taking a mortgage you have the choice not to have searches carried out although no conveyancer would advise that you don't. With plenty of history conveyancing in Montacute the following are examples of issues that can be revealed and therefore affect the marketability of the property: Enforcement Actions, Outstanding Fees, Outstanding Grants, Unadopted Roads,...

How does conveyancing in Montacute differ for new build properties?

Most buyers of new build or newly converted property in Montacute approach us having been asked by the seller to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the residence is finished. This is because new home sellers in Montacute typically acquire the site, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct conveyancers as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are used to new build conveyancing in Montacute or who has acted in the same development.

My husband and I are 3 weeks into a residential purchase having been recommend to a firm by the selling agent to execute conveyancing in Montacute. I am am very disappointed with the quality of service. Can you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?

They would need to be very poor to suggest replacing them. Has the mortgage offer been issued? If so you need to advise them of the replacement lawyer and ensure the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your new solicitor ideally should be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid added expenses and complications. So that should be your first question of the new solicitors. The find a solicitor tool will help you find a bank approved lawyer for your home move in Montacute

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Montacute regulated by the SRA

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

  • Richard P Kemp, 31 North Street, Martock, Somerset, TA12 6DH
  • Bannister & Co, Tudor Chambers, Manor Road, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1UQ
  • Battens Solicitors Limited, Mansion House, 54-58 Princes Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1EP
  • Porter Dodson Llp, Central House, Church Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HH
  • Gareth Webb & Co Llp, 5-6 Church Terrace, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HX

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Montacute

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Montacute specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on wrongful eviction

  • Richard P Kemp, 31 North Street, Martock, Somerset, TA12 6DH
  • Battens Solicitors Limited, Mansion House, 54-58 Princes Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1EP
  • Porter Dodson Llp, Central House, Church Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HH
  • Gareth Webb & Co Llp, 5-6 Church Terrace, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HX
  • Stokes Partners Llp, Kingfisher House, Market Square, Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 7LH

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

Licensed Conveyancers assist with the transfer of ownership of a property from one person to another and cover conveyancing throughout England and Wales not just Montacute. When instructing a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you can expect:
  • Enjoy the benefit of an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Have a high standard of legal services.
  • Enjoy the benefit of your matters dealt with using care, skill and diligence.
  • Have a high quality of service due to your lawyer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Be supplied with a service which is accessible and responsive to your individual needs.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • To receive the level you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Have your individual needs taken into account should you make a complaint.
  • Have a speedy, objective and comprehensive service when if a complaint is made about your conveyancing in Montacute.

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

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