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Choosing the right solicitor is the most important decision when it comes to your Peacehaven conveyancing

Reasons to use our Peacehaven conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 The Peacehaven conveyancing practitioners that we work with are dedicated to providing value for money, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Peacehaven
  • 2 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these firms are often located many kilometers away with little understanding of the factors that affect property transactions in Peacehaven
  • 3 Chances are that the other side’s conveyancers are located in Peacehaven - if so both parties will be less confrontational
  • 4 Peacehaven conveyancers work in partnership with Peacehaven estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to make sure that the highest level of service is provided to home movers every step of the way, with the aim of reducing administrative burdens and transaction times
  • 5 Our site is the only site offering you the ability to check that your property ownership legalities in Peacehaven will be conducted by a law firm on your bank member panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Peacehaven since January 2025*

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Sale

of terraced residence, Rowe Avenue North, BN10 7QR completing on 15/01/2025 at a price of £323,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: agreeing completion date with parties, preparing statement detailing charges, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s conveyancer

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Sale

of semi premises, Firle Road, BN10 8DD completing on 14/01/2025 at a price of £350,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, securing official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

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Sale

of semi-detached residence, Anderson Close, BN9 9XY completing on 14/01/2025 at a price of £315,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, preparing statement detailing charges

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Disposal

of terraced property, The Rose Walk, BN9 9NJ completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £344,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: obtaining official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s lawyers

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Peacehaven

What is the most effective way to search for the right solicitor who will give a quality service for my conveyancing in Peacehaven?

Option 1 is to ask your friends and family who they used in the past and if they were happy with the service.

Option 2 is to search the internet for conveyancing in Peacehaven. Call a couple or more firms from the list and invite them to email you their conveyancing fees and have a conversation with the lawyer who will handle the conveyancing ahead ofcommitting.

Option 3 is to make use of our search tool to assist you in finding the right lawyers for you based on your own factors including location,speed, complexity and who your intended lender is. Avoid the trap of appointing low cost conveyancing in Peacehaven

My wife and I are buying a apartment in Peacehaven. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a solicitor? On completion day we will need to put funds into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

This question may be naive but I am new to the house moving as a first time purchaser of a ground floor flat in Peacehaven. Do I receive the keys to the house on completion from my lawyer? If this is the case, I will appoint a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Peacehaven?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will electronically transfer the purchase money to the vendor’s lawyers, and once they have received this, you will be able to receive the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. Usually this occurs early afternoon.

We have a mortgage agreed in principle with TSB. Peacehaven conveyancing practitioners have been instructed. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from TSB?

There is no definitive answer here. Have TSB completed the survey? Have you informed TSB as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the TSB conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.

My relative advised me that where I am buying in Peacehaven I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Peacehaven conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Peacehaven around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Peacehaven Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Peacehaven Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Peacehaven.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build flat in Peacehaven. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Peacehaven

    The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

How do I use the search facility to locate a conveyancing practitioner in Peacehaven on the panel for my lender?

Step one is to pick a bank such as Nationwide Building Society, The Mortgage Works or Alliance & Leicester then choose your preferred area for example Peacehaven. Conveyancing organisations in Peacehaven and nationally will then be shown.

How much experience do your Peacehaven conveyancing solicitors have with Help To Buy, Shared Equity and similar schemes?

Peacehaven conveyancing lawyers help thousands of buyers move home every year and helped lots of clients through the Help To Buy scheme. The chances are that whatever makes your case unique Peacehaven conveyancers have worked on recent similar cases.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Peacehaven regulated by the SRA

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

  • Morgan Kelly Solicitors Limited, Castleworks, Westgate Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1YR
  • Chrismas Ogden Solicitors Limited, Howard Cottage, Broomans Lane, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2LT
  • Astburys, Lewes House, 32 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2LU
  • Lewes Smith, Albion House, Albion Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2NF
  • Adams & Remers Llp, Trinity House, School Hill, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2NN

Purchase conveyancing in Peacehaven usually comprises the following:

  • Taking instructions from parties involved
  • Investigating the title unregistered or registered
  • Conducting Peacehaven searches for the property
  • Assessing draft sale agreement and other documentation received from the vendor’s conveyancer
  • Submitting queries with the owner’s conveyancer
  • Negotiating the sale contract
  • Assessing replies supplied by the owner to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Negotiating a Transfer document
  • Guiding the buyer in respect of the mortgage offer: (where appropriate)
  • Preparing and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; summarising to the purchaser on the contents of the contract pack, preliminary enquiries and the result of the searches)
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion of the purchase
  • Completing and submitting to HMRC the correct Land Tax forms and payment
  • Dealing with the registration formalities for the change in ownership and the mortgage (if applicable) at the HM Land Registry.

Peacehaven commercial property solicitors provide expert offering advice on a number of aspects of commercial property law

    Granting a licence to assign, sublet or carry out works Lease renewals and variations Telecommunications and broadcast mast sites Property finance transactions, including sale and leaseback Land use planning and environmental matters Acquisitions and disposals of property portfolios at commercial auctions

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

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