The lawyer who assisted with my previous purchase has sent a quote for just over a thousand pound for no sale no fee conveyancing in New Malden. I am hoping to downsize from a newly refurbished property for £125,000. This sounds over the top. Is it above what I should be paying for conveyancing in New Malden?
The costs illustration is slightly on the expensive side. If you shop around you may be able to get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps a hundred pounds. That being said, you mightlive to rue choosing an an unknown conveyancer. If is important to check that the firm can represent your bank. You can use our search tool to locate a New Malden conveyancing practice on the lender’s conveyancing panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in New Malden.
Our grandson is purchasing a new build apartment in New Malden with a home loan from Lloyds. His solicitor has said that there is a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the purchase. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Lloyds conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when asked. 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 Lloyds conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
I have 71 years left on my lease and require a lease extension for my apartment in New Malden. Conveyancing solicitors on the Accord Mortgages panel can deal with such extensions right?
Most leasehold conveyancing experts should be able to deal with a lease extension. if you are obtaining a mortgage then your lender may insist that the lease be extended before competition. Accord Mortgages have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook in relation to minimum unexpired lease terms. As of 15/11/2025 the requirements read as follows :
I know that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Do I need chancel insurance when purchasing a house in New Malden? or Apparently there is a law dating back centuries that means some owners of property living in a parish church boundary may be liable to pay for repairs to the chancel within the church. Is this a legitimate concern for conveyancing in New Malden?
Unless a previous purchase of the property completed post 12 October 2013 you could expect lawyers delivering conveyancing in New Malden to continue to suggest a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.
How do I use the search app to choose a conveyancing practitioner in New Malden on the approved list for my mortgage?
First choose a lender such as Birmingham Midshires, Chelsea Building Society or Platform Home Loans Ltd then choose your location e.g. New Malden. Conveyancing organisations in New Malden and beyond will then be shown.
Would local authority consent be necessary to change a house into multiple appartments in New Malden? This has taken place to a property adjacent to my house in New Malden and was not aware of it happening until after the works were finished.
Planning permission is needed for splitting a single house in New Malden into flats but probably not for converting back to single dwelling-house so, in answer to your query, yes,a it is needed.