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  • 1 Southgate property lawyers have a significant advantage when it comes to Southgate conveyancing as they have important local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other matters that can affect your conveyancing
  • 2 Our site is the first site offering you the facility to check that your property ownership legalities in Southgate will be conducted by a conveyancer on your lender’s authorised panel.
  • 3 The firms identified on our web pages have a variation of conveyancing lawyers, legal executives and support staff handling thousands of conveyancing matters each year.
  • 4 Cut price packages from online conveyancers might be tempting. However, these organisations are often located many kilometers away with limited appreciation of the factors that impact property transactions in Southgate
  • 5 Southgate conveyancers work in partnership with Southgate estate agents, house builders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is provided to buyers and sellers every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept up to date with progress all the way along

Examples of recent conveyancing in Southgate since March 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Southgate

I am considering applying for a HSBC mortgage for purchase of a new build (under development) in Southgate with 60% LTV. Is it compulsory to choose a solicitor on the conveyancing panel for HSBC ?

In theory, you could use a solicitor that is not on the HSBC conveyancing panel, but HSBC would require one of their panel solicitors to be instructed to act in their interests, and you'd have to pay for this - so most people instruct a panel solicitor. It's also easier, as otherwise you'd have to deal with two solicitors for the same conveyancing matter.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a property I have offered on last month in what was supposed to be a simple, chain free conveyancing. Southgate is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in Southgate are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Southgate you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Southgate may decide 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.

I was pointed in your direction by numerous estate agents in Southgate to get a quote from a solicitor using your seach tool. Is there a financial upside for Estate Agents to offer your site ahead of a competitor’s?

We refuse to make any commission for directing people in our direction. We thought it would be too underhand a fee as members of the public would think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.

We are 17 days into a leasehold purchase having been referred to solicitors by the high street agent to do our conveyancing in Southgate. I am am extremely dissatisfied with the level of service. Can you you assist me in finding new lawyers?

A solicitor would need to be very bad in order to consider changing them. Has the mortgage been generated? In the event that it has you must advise them of the replacement solicitor and have the loan are issued to the new lawyers. The conveyancer should be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid supplemental expenses and complications. That should be your first question of the new conveyancers. The search tool should assist you in finding a bank approved solicitor for your home move in Southgate

Do you have any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Southgate with the intention of speeding up the sale process?

  • A significant proportion of the delay in leasehold conveyancing in Southgate can be reduced where you get in touch lawyers the minute you market your property and request that they start to collate the leasehold documentation which will be required by the purchasers’ conveyancers.
  • If there is a history of any disputes with your freeholder or managing agents it is very important that these are settled before the property is marketed. The buyers and their solicitors will be reluctant to purchase a property where there is an ongoing dispute. You may need to swallow your pride and pay any arrears of service charge or resolve the dispute prior to completion of the sale. It is therefore preferable to have any dispute settled ahead of the contract papers being issued to the buyers’ solicitors. You are still duty bound to disclose details of the dispute to the buyers, but it is better to reveal the dispute as historic as opposed to ongoing. If you hold a share in a the freehold, you should ensure that you are holding the original share certificate. Arranging a new share certificate is often a lengthy formality and slows down many a Southgate home move. If a duplicate share is necessary, do contact the company director and secretary or managing agents (where applicable) for this as soon as possible. The majority of freeholders or managing agents in Southgate charge for supplying management packs for a leasehold home. You or your lawyers should enquire as to the fee that they propose to charge. The management pack can be applied for on or before finding a buyer, thus accelerating the process. The typical amount of time it takes to receive management information is three weeks. It is the most usual reason for frustration in leasehold conveyancing in Southgate.

Notwithstanding our best efforts, we have been unsuccessful in negotiating a lease extension in Southgate. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal adjudicate on premiums?

in cases where there is a absentee freeholder or if there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the LVT to assess the amount due.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Southgate premises is 23 Beaconsfield Road in July 2013. The Tribunals decided that the amount payable was £31,203 for the freehold. This case related to 2 flats. The remaining number of years on the lease was 70.31 years.

My sister completed her conveyancing in Southgate ten years ago. She has since got married, widowed and in recent months got remarried. She intends to sell the property in a couple of months. I suspect that she will simply be asked to provide a copy of the marriage certificates to the conveyancing practitioner but she is worried it could hold up the conveyancing. Should she instruct a conveyancing practitioner to update the title details for the house?

It is not absolutely necessary to bring up to date the register as long as you have the proof required to show how the change of name has come about.

Any buyer’s conveyancing practitioner will examine the title details and ask for evidence to establish the name change for example marriage documentation.

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Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Southgate regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Southgate specialising in commercial conveyancing in Southgate. This will likely include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Aspen Morris, 141 High Street, Southgate, London, London, N14 6BP
  • Meade & Co, Block D 1st Floor, Southgate Office Village, 286 Chase Road, London, N14 6HF
  • Millington Wallace & Co, Block D Ist Floor, 286 Chase Road, Southgate, London, Greater London, N14 6HF
  • Lewis Terrance Rose Solicitors, Southgate Office Village, Block F 2nd Floor, 288 Chase Road, London, N14 6HF
  • Petrou & Co, Block A, Southgate Office Village, 284 Chase Road, London, N14 6HF

Residential Licensed Conveyancers in Southgate regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Please be aware that the listed conveyancers do not limit their work for conveyancing in Southgate but also conveyancing across England and Wales.
  • Horizon Law Limited, 214 High Street, EN5 5SZ
  • House Owners Conveyancers Limited, Dephina House, N3 2JU
  • L B Property Lawyers, Imperial House, N17 0SP
  • House Owners Conveyancers Limited, 56 Windermere Avenue, N3 3RA

Planning law solicitors in Southgate regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The solicitors listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Southgate specialising in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including applications about listed buildings and conservation areas
  • Vanderpump & Sykes Llp, Lough Point, 2 Gladbeck Way, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 7JA
  • Stuart & Co, 285 Fore Street, London, London, N9 0PD
  • Sal & Co Solicitors Limited, 191 Angel Place, Fore Street, Edmonton, London, England, N18 2UD
  • Barnett Alexander Conway Ingram Llp, Sovereign House, 1 Albert Place, Ballards Lane, London, N3 1QB
  • Coldham Shield & Mace Solicitors Llp, 123-125 Station Road, Chingford, London, E4 6AG

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

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