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Top 5 reasons to use our service to help you find a high street conveyancing solicitor in Sherborne

  • 1 Sherborne conveyancer are the key to a successful Sherborne home move, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your move
  • 2 There is a better than average chance that the the conveyancers for the other party are based in Sherborne - if so sets of solicitors are likely to have worked on conveyancing matters in the past
  • 3 The Sherborne conveyancing practitioners that are identified are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Sherborne
  • 4 Sherborne solicitors have a significant advantage when it comes to Sherborne conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that will affect your conveyancing
  • 5 You can rest easier when select the very best, most recommended conveyancing solicitors. Sherborne has a number to select from, but for a truly professional and dependable service many local people have been use the recommendation of this site.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Sherborne since June 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Sherborne

Due to move into my new home in Sherborne next Tuesday. I have now been asked to send a copy of my building insurance schedule by my solicitor as he says that he has to check this in his capacity as lawyer for the mortgage company. What does the insurance need to cover?

Any lawyer on acting for lenders would need to check that the following risks are covered fire; lightning; aircraft; explosion; earthquake; storm; flood; escape of water or oil; riot; malicious damage; theft or attempted theft; falling trees and branches and aerials; subsidence; heave;landslip;collision;accidental damage to underground services;professional fees, demolition and site clearance costs; and public liability to anyone else. There are some other issues such as the level of excess that are set out in a lender’s Part 2 instructions. These requirements are not limited to conveyancing in Sherborne.

Do conveyancers request money up-front when it comes to conveyancing in Sherborne?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Sherborne your solicitor will ask you place them with monies to cover the search fees. This will be the total of the cost of the Local Authority Search. When the deposit is payable against the total price then this should be required immediately in advance of contracts are exchanged. Any further balance that is needed should be transferred shortly before completion.

A relative advised me that where I am buying in Sherborne I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is sometimes included in the estimate for your Sherborne conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Sherborne around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Sherborne Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Sherborne.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what was supposed to be a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. Sherborne is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in Sherborne are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Sherborne you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds diligently. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Sherborne may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold property.

We are one month into a residential purchase having been referred to conveyancers by the local agent to carry out the conveyancing in Sherborne. I am not happy. Could you help me find new conveyancers?

A conveyancer would need to be really poor in order to consider changing them. Has the loan offer been generated? In the event that it has you need to advise them of the new lawyer and get the mortgage documents are re-sent. Your conveyancer needs to be on the banks panel to avoid added expenses and frustration. That should be your first question of the new lawyers. The find a solicitor tool can help you find a bank approved conveyancer for your home move in Sherborne

I note that you have a post code search directory listing law firms on the mortgage company conveyancing panel. Do Sherborne conveyancing companies pay you a referral fee if I instruct them for my house purchase?

We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the lender conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Sherborne.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Sherborne

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Sherborne practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on Terms and conditions of tenancy agreements

  • Bartlett Gooding & Weelen, Old Bank House, High Street, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7AW
  • Rutter & Rutter, St. Audreys, South Street, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9DR
  • Maclachlan Solicitors Limited, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3BS

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Sherborne regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Sherborne with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Sherborne. This will likely include advice on buying or selling a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit
  • Bartlett Gooding & Weelen, Old Bank House, High Street, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7AW
  • Rutter & Rutter, St. Audreys, South Street, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9DR
  • Maclachlan Solicitors Limited, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3BS

Sherborne commercial property solicitors provide expert offering advice on numerous issues across all aspects of commercial property law

    Acquisitions and disposals of property portfolios at commercial auctions Buying, selling and leasing land for registered charities Compulsory land purchase Commercial finance including remortgages Property realisations and advice for insolvency practitioners

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