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Top 5 reasons to use our service to assist you find a local conveyancing solicitor in Rainham Kent

  • 1 The firms identified on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing practitioners, legal executives and support staff handling thousands of conveyancing matters annually.
  • 2 Excellent communication together with a wealth of local knowledge are key benefits that you should value when choosing conveyancing solicitors. Rainham Kent home moves can become a lot more stressful because of lack of transparency between all the parties. The lawyers listed strive to make sure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments expeditiously.
  • 3 Conveyancer conveyancing firms have excellent personal links with Rainham Kent estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 4 The Rainham Kent conveyancing practitioners that are listed are dedicated to supplying the most cost, efficient and transparent conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and investors in Rainham Kent
  • 5 The hallmark of our conveyancing solicitors in Rainham Kent is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) often falls short of the level of professionalism you would hope for.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Rainham Kent since September 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Rainham Kent

Willretaining a Rainham Kent conveyancing practitioner make the ownership transfer easier?

Rainham Kent is a unique place, where regional insight is a significant benefit. The laid-back lifestyle has an upside – just not for your conveyancing. The solicitors that we endorse providing wide Rainham Kent insight with a professional, can doapproach that helps everything runs smoothly. It will certainly help where they can make use of good relationships with mortgage brokers, estate agents, valuers and other Rainham Kent conveyancing practices

When will exchange of contracts take place for residential conveyancing in Rainham Kent and am I required to be at the solicitors office?

If you are local to one of the conveyancing solicitors in Rainham Kent you are welcome to attend to sign documents. However, the law practices we recommend provide a national conveyancing service and provide as equally comprehensive and professional a job for you when communicating with you by post or email. The signing of the purchase agreement is not the point of no return. A signed contract is necessary for the solicitor to officially exchange at the appropriate time, which is ordinarily shortly after signing. The procedure is is usually a five minute process, although where a long "chain" is in play, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in Rainham Kent)to be in the office at the appropriate time.

I am due to move property in March. Does my conveyancing solicitor liaise with the removal company on the day of completion. On a separate note, can you put forward a removal company in Rainham Kent. Conveyancing solicitor was organised before I stumbled across this site.

On the afternoon of completion you can pick up the keys from your property agent but this can only occur once the vendors lawyers inform the agent that they acknowledge receipt of the completion payment and the keys can be handed over. After that you should inform the removal men that you are ready to move in. As a matter of policy we do not recommend a particular removal company but can help you choose a conveyancing in Rainham Kent or a firm that specialises in conveyancing in Rainham Kent.

Can you point me to a directory of Leeds Building Society panel conveyancers in Rainham Kent on the Building Society Association’s Website?

No. There is no such directory service on the CML or Building Society Association websites. Very few banks make their panel listings visible online. Where you are in need of a Rainham Kent lawyer on the Leeds Building Society please make the most of our tool.

I can not work out if my lender obliges me to make sure the lease term for the flat is extended prior to the completion date. I have telephoned my Rainham Kent building society branch on numerous occasions and was informed it wasn't a problem and they would lend. My Rainham Kent conveyancing solicitor - who is on the lender conveyancing panel- called to say that they refuse to lend based on their UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook minimum lease term requirements. Who do I believe?

Your property lawyer has to follow the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook Part 2 conditions for your bank. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that the mortgage company will go ahead, your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask the bank to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the number of years left on the lease.

I am buying my first flat in Rainham Kent with the aid of help to buy. The builders would not reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The house builders rep told me not to tell my conveyancer about this deal as it may impact my mortgage with the lender. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £195,000 and found one near me in Rainham Kent I like with open areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it's only got 49 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Rainham Kent in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you require a home loan that many years will likely be a potential deal breaker. Discount the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing proprietor has owned the premises for a minimum of twenty four months you could request that they start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this.

The lawyers undertaking our conveyancing in Rainham Kent has sent documents to review that show the property is unregistered with epitome documents. Surely all properties in Rainham Kent should be registered?

Although the vast majorities of properties in Rainham Kent are now registered with HM Land Registry there are still a few that are unregistered. Any property in Rainham Kent that has been remortgaged since the late 1980’s will have been registered at the HM Land Registry under the compulsory ‘first registration’ scheme. However, if a Rainham Kent property has not changed hands in that time then it’s likely the old fashioned title deeds will be the only evidence of ownership.Plenty of Rainham Kent conveyancing lawyers should be able to handle such matters but if any uncertainty reigns the prevailing advice nowadays appears to be for the current owners to undertake the registration formalities first and thereafter deal with the dispose of the property to the purchaser - this can though naturally result in a drawn-out conveyancing.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Rainham Kent regulated by the SRA

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

  • V. E. White & Co. Ltd, 10 Parkwood Green, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 9PN
  • Hawkridge & Company Llp, 39 Canterbury Street, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 5TR
  • Dgb Solicitors Llp, The Captains House, Pembroke, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4UF
  • Stephens & Son Llp, Rome House, 41 Railway Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4RP
  • Ratcliffes, 22 Park Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 1DR

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Rainham Kent

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Rainham Kent practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on service charge disputes and the right to manage

  • V. E. White & Co. Ltd, 10 Parkwood Green, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 9PN
  • Hawkridge & Company Llp, 39 Canterbury Street, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 5TR
  • Dgb Solicitors Llp, The Captains House, Pembroke, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4UF
  • Stephens & Son Llp, Rome House, 41 Railway Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4RP
  • Winch & Winch, 5 New Road Avenue, Chatham, Kent, ME4 6AR

Domestic Licensed Conveyancers in Rainham Kent regulated by the CLC

Please note that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Rainham Kent but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Raymond Beer & Co Ltd, 16 Manor Road, ME4 6AG

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

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