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Reasons to use our South East London conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 The accumulation of transactions means that South East London lawyer have established very good working relationships with South East London local estate agents, banks, building societies, landlords and property developers enabling them to liaise at speed with all parties involved in the process of undertaking your conveyancing in South East London.
  • 2 This site is the only site offering you the facility to ensure that your property ownership legalities in South East London will be carried out by a law firm on your bank authorised panel.
  • 3 Regardless other companies advise it could be necessary to pop into your lawyer to sign contracts. There are enough parties with an interest in a homemove without having to include the postman into the mix.
  • 4 South East London conveyancers have a crucial advantage when it comes to South East London conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that can impact your conveyancing
  • 5 South East London property lawyers will be familiar with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and selling agents

Examples of recent conveyancing in South East London since June 2026*

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Sale

of detached residence premises, Fielding Street, SE17 3HD completing on 23/06/2026 at a price of £775,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, ordering official copies of the title, preparing statement detailing charges

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Transfer

of flat Palmer Road SW11 4FS, at sale amount of £555,000. Leasehold conveyancing included: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, securing official copies of the title, setting up the completion formalities

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Transfer

of semi residence, Regents Park Road, NW1 7TL completing on 26/06/2026 at a price of £4,900,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, agreeing completion date with parties, preparing statement detailing charges

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Transfer

of apartment Offenham Road SW9 7BN, at purchase amount of £537,500. Leasehold conveyancing included: sending the transfer to the seller for execution in preparation for completion, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in South East London

My husband and I are looking to buy a house in South East London and are in fact using a South East London conveyancing practice. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report with the expectation that exchange is imminent. Barnsley Building Society have this afternoon contacted us to inform me that there is now an issue as our South East London lawyer is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?

If you are buying a property with the assistance of a mortgage it is conventional for the purchasers' lawyers to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred South East London lawyers, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.

My solicitor has uncovered a defect with the lease for the flat we are buying in South East London. The seller’s lawyers have suggested title insurance as a workaround. We are happy with insurance and will cover the costs. Our lawyer has advised that he must ensure that the mortgage company is willing to move forward with this solution. Are we the client or is the mortgage company ?

Notwithstanding that you have a mortgage offer from the bank does not mean to say that the property will meet their specifications for the purposes of a mortgage. Your lawyer has to ensure that the lease has to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook specifications. You and the lender are the client. The appropriate lender specifications have to be complied with.

I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £245,000 and found one round the corner in South East London I like with a park and station in the vicinity, the downside is that it only has 51 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in South East London for this price, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a lease with such few years left?

Should you require a mortgage that many years will be a potential deal breaker. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current owner has owned the property for a minimum of 2 years you can request that they commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.

I was recommended by a couple of local estate agents in South East London to choose a solicitor on your site. What’s the financial inducement for Estate Agents to recommend your lawyers over and above another?

We refuse to give any financial incentive for pointing buyers and sellers our way. We thought it would be too underhand to pay a commission because home movers will think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.

I am a couple of weeks into a residential purchase having been directed to conveyancers by the high street agent to handle our conveyancing in South East London. I am not happy. Could you help me find new solicitors?

They would have to be very bad to suggest diss instructing them. Has the loan offer been issued? In the event that it has you must inform them of the replacement solicitor and have the offer are issued to the new lawyers. Your solicitor ideally needs to be on the mortgage company panel to avoid supplemental charges and delays. So that should be your first question of the new lawyers. The search tool will help you find a lender approved lawyer for your home move in South East London

Completion is due on the disposal of our £350,000 flat in South East London in just under a week. The landlords agents has quoted £336 for Certificate of Compliance, insurance certificate and previous years service charge statements. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge exorbitant fees for a leasehold conveyance in South East London?

South East London conveyancing on leasehold apartments nine out of ten times involves fees being invoiced by landlords agents :

    Answering conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in South East London Copies of the building insurance and schedule Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale
Your solicitor will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for South East London leasehold premises is £350. For South East London conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are obliged to supply answers.

We have reached the end of our tether in trying to reach an agreement for a lease extension in South East London. Can this matter be resolved via the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?

Absolutely. We can put you in touch with a South East London conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a South East London premises is 20 Avonwick Road in July 2013. The Tribunal was dealing with an application under Section 26 of the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 for a determination of the freehold value of the property. It was concluded that the price to be paid was Fifteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy (£15,970) divided as to £8,200 for Flat 20 and £7,770 for Flat 20A This case related to 1 flat. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 73.26 years.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in South East London

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in South East London practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on service charge disputes and the right to manage

  • Rubinstein Phillips Lewis Smith Limited, 13 Craven Street, London, WC2N 5PB
  • Hillary Cooper Law Limited, 53-59 Chandos Place, London, WC2N 4HS
  • Hempsons, 40 Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NJ
  • Gordon Dadds Llp, 6 Agar Street, London, Greater London, WC2N 4HN
  • Spring Law Limited, 65 Chandos Place, London, WC2N 4HG

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in South East London regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in South East London but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Stratega Law Ltd, Sutherland House, W1F 7TE
  • R & C Property Lawyers Llp, 10A Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7PG
  • Walter Saunders, 382 Brockley Road, SE4 2BY

Planning law solicitors in South East London regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The practices listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in South East London with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including development on contaminated land
  • Ahc Solicitors Limited, 1 Northumberland Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5BW
  • Fortune Green Legal Practice Limited, Golden Cross House, 8 Duncannon Street, London, WC2N 4JF
  • Hempsons, 40 Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NJ
  • Gordon Dadds Llp, 6 Agar Street, London, Greater London, WC2N 4HN
  • David Tang & Co, Suite 8 Nassau House, 122 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, London, W1D 5ER

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

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