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Reasons to use our Orpington conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Orpington conveyancing lawyers will acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and estate agents
  • 2 Low cost packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these organisations are often based many kilometers away with limited appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in Orpington
  • 3 Experience means that Orpington property lawyer have established excellent links with Orpington local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of undertaking your house sale or purchase in Orpington.
  • 4 The companies listed on our web pages have a mix of conveyancing solicitors, legal executives and support staff handling thousands of conveyancing matters each year.
  • 5 Orpington lawyers work in partnership with Orpington estate agents, property finders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to make sure that a quality service is offered to home movers every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept up to date with progress throughout

Examples of recent conveyancing in Orpington since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Orpington

The Orpington conveyancing firm handling our Orpington conveyancing has uncovered a difference between the surveyor’s assumptions in the home valuation report and what is in the title deeds. My lawyer says that he is duty bound to ensure that the lender is OK with this discrepancy and is content to go ahead. Is my conveyancer’s stance right?

Your conveyancing practitioner must comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.

As someone unfamiliar with the Orpington conveyancing process what is the number one tip you can impart concerning the legal transfer of property in Orpington

Not many law firms or advisers will tell you this but conveyancing in Orpington or throughout South East London is often a confrontational experience. In other words, when it comes to conveyancing there is plenty of room for confrontation between you and other parties involved in the ownership transfer. For example, the vendor, property agent and sometimes the bank. Choosing a law firm for your conveyancing in Orpington is a critical decision as your conveyancer is your adviser, and is the ONLY party in the transaction whose responsibility is to look after your legal interests and to protect you.

We are witnessing a definite ongoing adversarial element to conveyancing- someone must be blamed for the process taking so long. We recommend that you must always trust your solicitor ahead of the other parties in the conveyancing process.

My Conveyancer in Orpington has never been on on the Bank of Ireland Conveyancing Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my family solicitor notwithstanding that they are not on the Bank of Ireland approved list?

The limited options available to you here include:

  1. Complete the purchase with your preferred Orpington solicitors but Bank of Ireland will need to use a solicitor on their list of acceptable firms. This will result in additional total legal fees as well as cause delays.
  2. Get a new solicitor to to deal with the purchase, obviously checking they are Persuade your conveyancer to do everything within their powers to join the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel

We are buying a property and the solicitor has mentioned Chancel Repair to which the house could be liable as it falls into the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this really warranted for conveyancing in Orpington

Unless a previous purchase of the premises completed post 12 October 2013 you may take it that conveyancing practitioners delivering conveyancing in Orpington to continue to propose a a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a simple, chain free conveyancing. Orpington is where the house is located. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in Orpington are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Orpington you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Orpington may ascertain that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

We are 18 days into a leasehold purchase having been directed to solicitors by the high street agent to handle our conveyancing in Orpington. We are not happy. Could you you assist me in finding new solicitors?

A conveyancer would have to be very poor in order to consider diss instructing them. Has your mortgage offer been sent? In the event that it has you must advise them of the new conveyancer and get the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your conveyancer should be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid supplemental fees and delays. That should be your first question of the new solicitors. The find a solicitor tool will assist you in finding a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Orpington

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Orpington

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Orpington practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Terms and conditions of tenancy agreements

  • Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd, Valiant House, 12 Knoll Rise, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0PG
  • Thomas Dunton Solicitors, 217-219 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0NZ
  • Pumfrey & Lythaby, 155-159 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0LN
  • Cader Solicitors, Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6LH
  • Pishon Gold Limited, Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6LH

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Orpington regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Orpington with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Orpington. This may include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd, Valiant House, 12 Knoll Rise, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0PG
  • Thomas Dunton Solicitors, 217-219 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0NZ
  • Pumfrey & Lythaby, 155-159 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0LN
  • Preston Mellor Harrison, 30 High Street, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5AS
  • Braund & Fedrick, 13 Market Parade, High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6EP

Planning law solicitors in Orpington regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Orpington with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including compulsory purchases in Orpington
  • Batchelors, Charles House, 35 Widmore Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1RW
  • Wellers Law Group Llp, Tenison House, Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 3NF
  • A E Short, 144 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 6PG
  • Hadfield & Co, 1 Central Avenue, Welling, Kent, DA16 3AX

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