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Reasons to use our Sherston conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Sherston lawyers work in partnership with Sherston estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to clients every step of the way, ensuring the smoothest, most stress-free process possible
  • 2 The practices identified on our directory have a mix of conveyancing solicitors, legal executives and support staff handling over one hundred thousand cases each year.
  • 3 Sherston conveyancers have a crucial edge when it comes to Sherston conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that will impact your sale or purchase
  • 4 Solicitor conveyancing firms have valuable personal links with Sherston estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 5 Our site is the first site that enables you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Sherston will be conducted by a property lawyer on your mortgage lender’s conveyancing panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Sherston since January 2025*

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of terraced premises, Gaston Lane, SN16 0LY completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £650,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending title deeds and signed transfer to buyer’s conveyancer

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of semi-detached residence, Chapel Corner, SN14 6RT completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £620,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, sending the transfer to the vendor for execution in readiness for completion, securing official copies of the title

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Transfer

of terraced premises, Hollybush Close, GL9 1JJ completing on 10/01/2025 at a price of £400,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, setting up the completion formalities

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of detached residence property, Common Road, SN16 0HN completing on 16/01/2025 at a price of £765,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending the transfer to the seller for signature in preparation for completion, preparing statement detailing charges

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Sherston

I am in need of a property lawyer. Should I go for for a web based conveyancer as opposed to a high street Sherston conveyancing lawyer?

In the main conveyancing solicitors in your neck of the woods will enjoy good alliances with your local authority, which could assist with the Sherston conveyancing searches that your conveyancer will require on your transaction. It also helps if they enjoy good relationships with the Local Land Registry Office your area Sherston, other lawyers in the area and Sherston selling agents.

We are a couple about to sign contracts for a semi detached house in Sherston. We encountered a stumbling block. Our mortgage offer with Britannia runs out on 5/6/2025 but the sellers are putting forward a completion date of 9/6/2025. Is it possible to prolong the mortgage expiry date?

The person best placed to deal with your concern is your lawyer who will assess whether he or she is should be discussing with the lender, owner’s representatives, selling agents or indeed all three given the circumstances your conveyancing as of today.

It is is a decade since I acquired my house in Sherston. Conveyancing lawyers have recently been instructed on the sale but I can't locate the deeds. Is this a major issue?

Don’t worry too much. First the deeds may be kept by the lender or they may be in the possession of the solicitor who oversaw your purchase. Secondly the likelihood is that the property will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you own the property by your conveyancing lawyers procuring up to date copy of the land registers. Nearly all conveyancing in Sherston relates to registered property but in the unlikely event that your property is not registered it is more of a problem but is not insurmountable.

I am assisting my sister sell her flat in Sherston. Will the conveyancing solicitor commission an EPC or should I organise this?

After the demise of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was kept a required element of moving property. An EPC needs to be to hand in advance of the property being placed on the market. This is not a task that lawyers ordinarily arrange. If you are instructing a Sherston conveyancing solicitor they might be able to arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with reputable local assessors

We expect to receive a DIP from HSBC this week so we can work out what to offer on a property we like as otherwise we are dependent on web based calculators (which aren't taking into account credit checks etc). Do HSBC recommend any Sherston solicitors on the HSBC conveyancing panel, or is it better to find our own lawyer?

You will need to appoint Sherston solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the HSBC conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and HSBC through the process.

My wife and I are spending time viewing houses in Sherston and I am about to put in an offer. Is it premature to have a solicitor in place? I am planning to take a home loan with HSBC.

You should start requesting conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. Given that you are seeking a mortgage with HSBC, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the HSBC conveyancing panel.

The deeds to my house are lost. The lawyers who dealt with the conveyancing in Sherston 5 years ago are no longer around. Will I be able to sell the house?

Gone are the days when you need to hold title original deeds to establish that you are the owner of your registered land or property, given that the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a property I have offered on a fortnight ago in what should have been a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Sherston is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in Sherston are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Sherston 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 Sherston 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 residence.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Sherston regulated by the SRA

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

  • Richard T Bate & Co, 20 Market Place, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8DD

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Sherston regulated by the SRA

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Sherston with expertise in commercial conveyancing in Sherston. This could include advice on commercial leases including all matters relating to landlord and tenant law
  • Richard T Bate & Co, 20 Market Place, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8DD

Typically, Sherston conveyancing for a purchase has some of the following tasks

  • Conveyancer instructed by the buyer on acceptance of the offer
  • Investigating the title to the premises
  • Ordering Sherston property searches with respect to the property
  • Considering the draft contract pack and other papers forwarded by the owner’s property lawyer
  • Raising enquiries with the vendor’s property lawyer
  • Agreeing the wording of the sale agreement
  • Assessing replies prepared by the vendor to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Negotiating the Transfer document
  • Guiding the buyer in respect of the mortgage offer: (where applicable)
  • Preparing and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Proceeding to exchange of contracts and then completion formalities
  • Completion of and submitting to HM Revenue and Customs the appropriate stamp duty forms and payment
  • Registering the buyer and the home loan (if relevant) at the HM Land Registry.

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

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