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

Top 5 reasons to let us help you choose a high street conveyancing solicitor in Petts Wood

  • 1 Solicitor conveyancing solicitors have valuable personal links with Petts Wood estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 2 Petts Wood property lawyers are likely to have connections at the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and selling agents
  • 3 This site is the first site offering you the ability to check that your property ownership legalities in Petts Wood will be conducted by a law firm on your mortgage lender’s authorised panel.
  • 4 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might seem attractive. However, these organisations are often based many kilometers away with little understanding of the factors that impact property transactions in Petts Wood
  • 5 Experience means that Petts Wood conveyancer have established valuable working relationships with Petts Wood local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and house builders enabling them to liaise at speed with all concerned in the process of dealing with your conveyancing in Petts Wood.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Petts Wood since September 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Petts Wood

Can conveyancing in Petts Wood to be completed within 3 weeks?

In a situation where you are under pressure to sign contracts it is highly recommended that your lawyer is familiar with the area as they will have local relationships and intelligence. It is even conceivable that they may have handled previousproperties in the same neighbourhood. Therefore consider using a Petts Wood conveyancing lawyer. In addition, check that the lawyer is on the on the approved list for your mortgage company. It is believed that just under twenty per cent of Petts Wood conveyancing transactions are frustrated or derailed after discovering a buyer’s conveyancer was not on their mortgage lender’s panel. This can often result in the legal transfer of property being held up by an average of three weeks. It is believed that this issue impacts approximately one hundred thousand home sales every year. Most Petts Wood conveyancing firms can not represent certain banks so do check as early as possible.

Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Petts Wood even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance where I want to buy an office in Petts Wood with a mortgage from Halifax?

Our comparison service is mainly used to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in Petts Wood but we have set out at the bottom of this page some Petts Wood commercial conveyancing firms. You should speak with the solicitors directly to establish if they can also act for Halifax

I am buying a house and the lawyer has referenced Chancel Repair to which the property could be liable as it falls into the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this really warranted for conveyancing in Petts Wood

Unless a prior purchase of the premises completed after 12 October 2013 you could expect conveyancing practitioners handling conveyancing in Petts Wood to remain encouraging a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.

It has been five months following my purchase conveyancing in Petts Wood concluded. I have checked the Land Registry site which shows that I paid £150,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?

The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the premises from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.

How simple is it to use the search facility to get a costs illustration from a conveyancing lawyer in Petts Wood on the panel for my bank?

1st pick a lender such as Santander, Leeds Building Society or Clydesdale then choose your location such as Petts Wood. Conveyancing practices in Petts Wood and further afield should be listed.

Do online conveyancing companies cover everything a high street Petts Wood solicitor does or do I still need to use a solicitor for the final stages for my conveyancing in Petts Wood?

Where you instruct an online conveyancer they will undertake all the tasks your Petts Wood solicitor will cover.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Petts Wood regulated by the SRA

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

  • Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd, Valiant House, 12 Knoll Rise, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0PG
  • Pumfrey & Lythaby, 155-159 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0LN
  • Thomas Dunton Solicitors, 217-219 High Street, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0NZ
  • Pishon Gold Limited, Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6LH
  • Preston Mellor Harrison, 30 High Street, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5AS

Domestic Licensed Conveyancers in Petts Wood regulated by the CLC

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Petts Wood but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Ducat Law Ltd, TMS House, BR5 3QB
  • Peter W Stevens , 107 Maxwell Gardens, BR6 9QT
  • Cain Associates Llp, 297 The Broadway, DA6 8DG

Planning law solicitors in Petts Wood regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The solicitors listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Petts Wood specialising in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including development on contaminated land
  • 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
  • Beverley Morris & Co, 35 Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Villiage, London, SE3 0TJ

Neighboring Locations

Elmstead
Chislehurst
Petts Wood
Locksbottom
Green Street Green
Orpington

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

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