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Top 5 reasons to use our service to help you choose a high street conveyancing solicitor in Port Talbot

  • 1 Our site is the first site offering you the ability to check that your conveyancing in Port Talbot will be carried out by a property lawyer on your lender’s conveyancing panel.
  • 2 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Port Talbot is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by large estate agency chains) often falls short of the high standards of professionalism you will expect.
  • 3 Chances are that the the solicitors for the other party have offices in Port Talbot - if so both parties will be familiar
  • 4 Solicitors that specialise in conveyancing in Port Talbot have a grasp oflocal concerns peculiar to Port Talbot and therefore you may benefit from better advice and speedier conveyancing.
  • 5 Our site offers most comprehensive residential conveyancing directory listing bank approved property lawyers carrying out conveyancing in Port Talbot registered with the SRA or CLC.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Port Talbot since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Port Talbot

How do I search for the right lawyer who will give a 1st class service for our conveyancing in Port Talbot?

Option 1 is to ask the people you trust who they would recommend.

Option 2 is to look on the internet for conveyancing in Port Talbot. Ring a couple or more firms from the list and request that they email you their conveyancing estimate and discuss your needs with the solicitor who will conduct your conveyancing prior tomaking your decision.

Third is to use our search tool to help you find the right lawyers taking into account your unique requirements including area of the property,speed, complications and who your intended mortgage company is. Resist the temptation to go for ninety nine pound conveyancing in Port Talbot

We hope to to buy with Loughborough BS. We have called around locally but cant to find a Port Talbot conveyancing firm on the Loughborough BS panel. Could you help?

Feel free to take advantage of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this web page. Please choose the mortgage company and type Port Talbot or your location and you will discover numerous solicitors based in Port Talbot or by proximity to you.

Can you help - my lawyer advises that lack of planning permission insurance is needed on my purchase. What is the typical level of cover needed for conveyancing in Port Talbot?

The appropriate level of lack of planning permission indemnity insurance should be dictated by who who your lender is. It would differ for example between Santander and Barnsley Building Society. Conveyancing practitioners as opposed to members of the public take out such insurances.

I have paid off my mortgage with Coventry BS. I assume I don't need a Port Talbot solicitor on the Coventry BS panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your Coventry BS mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Coventry BS mortgage from the register. Coventry BS, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

  1. but are not moving to another property
  2. where Coventry BS has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Coventry BS has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Coventry BS mortgage has been paid off.

Intending to buy a maisonette in Port Talbot. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.

They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Port Talbot lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel.

My friend advised me that where I am purchasing in Port Talbot I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

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

In what way does the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 impact my commercial offices in Port Talbot and how can you help?

The particular law that you refer to gives a safeguard to commercial leaseholders, granting the a statutory right to make a request to court for a continuation of occupancy at the end of an expired lease. There are limited grounds that a landlord can refuse a lease renewal and the rules are complicated. Fees are different for commercial conveyancing. Port Talbot is one of the numerous areas of the UK in which our lawyers are located

My husband and I are novice buyers - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent has warned us that the owners will only go ahead if we use their preferred solicitors as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Port Talbot

It is improbable the vendors are behind this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', alienating a motivated purchaser is likely to cause more damage than good. Contact the sellers directly and make the point that (a)you are genuine purchasers (b)you are ready to progress, with finances arranged © you are unencumbered (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you will continue to appoint your preferred Port Talbot conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will provide the negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing thresholds pre-set by HQ.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Port Talbot regulated by the SRA

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

  • Howe & Spender, Courtland Chambers, 38-42 Station Road, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1JS
  • Aberavon Lawyers Limited, 11 Courtland Place, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1JJ
  • Cameron Jones Hussell & Howe Ltd, 1-5 Grove Place, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1HX
  • Bowermans, 1 Courtland Place, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1WR
  • Hutchinson Thomas, Pendrill Court, 119 London Road, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11 1LF

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Port Talbot regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Port Talbot practicing in commercial conveyancing in Port Talbot. This should include advice on commercial leases including all matters relating to landlord and tenant law
  • Howe & Spender, Courtland Chambers, 38-42 Station Road, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1JS
  • Aberavon Lawyers Limited, 11 Courtland Place, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA13 1JJ
  • Hutchinson Thomas, Pendrill Court, 119 London Road, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11 1LF
  • Jennifer Melly Law Limited, 45 Alfred Street, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11 1EH
  • T.l.j. Law Limited, Guildhall Chambers, 2 Church Place, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11 3LL

Planning law solicitors in Port Talbot regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Port Talbot with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including compulsory purchases in Port Talbot
  • Hutchinson Thomas, Pendrill Court, 119 London Road, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11 1LF

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

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