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Top reasons to use our service to help you find a local conveyancing solicitor in Penshaw

  • 1 Experience means that Penshaw conveyancer have established very good links with Penshaw local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and house builders enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of dealing with your house sale or purchase in Penshaw.
  • 2 This site is the first site offering you the facility to check that your property ownership legalities in Penshaw will be conducted by a property lawyer on your mortgage lender’s member panel.
  • 3 The hallmark of our conveyancing solicitors in Penshaw is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by large estate agency chains) sometimes falls short of the high standards of professionalism you will expect.
  • 4 Using a local Solicitor on the whole means that you will receive a more personalised service. Online forums bear testimony to the idea that in selecting a an online conveyancing factory, your conveyancing is handled by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by determining whether the ‘computers says no’.
  • 5 Penshaw solicitors work in partnership with Penshaw estate agents, property finders, surveyors, banks and other professionals to ensure that the highest level of service is offered to home movers every step of the way, never losing sight of the time-critical nature behind your conveyancing transaction

Examples of recent conveyancing in Penshaw since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Penshaw

Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Penshaw even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance if I want to buy a shop in Penshaw with a loan from Bank of Ireland?

Our search tool is primarily utilised to get a quote from residential conveyancing solicitors in Penshaw but we have listed towards the bottom of this page some Penshaw commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to make contact with the firm directly to establish if they can also act for Bank of Ireland

My property lawyer in Penshaw is not on the Virgin Money Conveyancing Panel. Can I still retain my family solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the Virgin Money panel?

Your options are as follows:

  1. Complete the purchase with your preferred Penshaw solicitors but Virgin Money will need to use a conveyancer on their panel. This will inevitably rack up the total legal fees as well as result in delays.
  2. Choose an alternative practitioner to to deal with the conveyancing, not forgetting to check they are Virgin Money approved.
  3. Persuade your Virgin Money based solicitor to try to join the Virgin Money panel

My wife and I purchasing a 3 bedroom semi in Penshaw. Our aim is to an extension at the rear at the property.Will legal investigations on the property involve investigations to ascertain if these works are prohibited?

Your conveyancer should check the deeds as conveyancing in Penshaw will occasionally identify restrictions in the title documents which prevent certain alterations or need the consent of a 3rd party. Some additions need local authority planning permissions and approval under the building regulations. Some locations are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which frequently prevent or impact extensions. It would be prudent to check these issues with a surveyor ahead of any purchase.

Is there a list of Nationwide panel conveyancers in Penshaw on the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Website?

Unfortunately not yet. There is no such tool on the CML or Building Society Association websites. Very few mortgage companies make their panel listings available on the web. If you are seeking to appoint a Penshaw conveyancing practitioner on the Nationwide please use our tool.

We are getting a further advance on our mortgage from Bank of Ireland as we wish to carry out improvements to our house in Penshaw. Are we obliged to choose a nearby Penshaw solicitor on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel to handle the legals?

Bank of Ireland would not normally instruct firms on their conveyancing panel to deal with the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Bank of Ireland panel.

I understand that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Do I need chancel insurance when purchasing a house in Penshaw? or Apparently there is an ancient law that could mean that homeowners living in a parish church boundary may be liable to contribute towards repairs to the chancel within the church. Is this suitable for conveyancing in Penshaw?

Unless a prior acquisition of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you can take it that conveyancing practitioners handling conveyancing in Penshaw to continue to recommend a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified during conveyancing in Penshaw?

Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Penshaw. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’

I am looking for a ground for flat up to £305k and identified one round the corner in Penshaw I like with a park and station in the vicinity, the downside is that it's only got 51 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Penshaw suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error purchasing a short lease?

Should you need a mortgage the shortness of the lease may be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the premises for a minimum of 2 years you may ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing lawyer concerning this matter.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Penshaw regulated by the SRA

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

  • Cullen Hammond Limited, Regus House, 4 Admiral Way, Doxford International Business, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR3 3XW
  • Sherwood-smith Tilley & Co, Britannic Chambers, Po Box 4, 92/94 Newbottle Street, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 4AJ
  • K Boswell & Co, 15/16 Arndale House, Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear, NE37 2SW
  • Richmond Anderson Goudie Part Of The Richmond Partnership, Flake Cottages, Cone Terrace, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3TA
  • Nigel J Humes & Co, 3-5 High Chare, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3PX

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Penshaw

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Penshaw specialising in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This will likely include advice on Service charge disputes

  • Hodgson Coulthard & Co, Glendale House, 10 Church Street, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 4DN
  • Richmond Anderson Goudie Part Of The Richmond Partnership, Flake Cottages, Cone Terrace, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3TA
  • Gordon Brown Law Firm Llp, Mains House, 143 Front Street, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3AU
  • Sweeney Miller Llp, Mowbray Villas, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7EA
  • Red Chevron Legal Services Ltd, Mowbray Villas, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7EA

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Penshaw regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Penshaw but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Hastie Conveyancing, 33 Frederick Street, SR1 1LN
  • Robert Woods Conveyancing Services , 576a Durham Road, NE9 6HX

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

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