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Reasons to use our Southwell conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Lawyer conveyancing firms have valuable personal connections with Southwell estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
  • 2 Personal touch and a wealth of expertise are key benefits that you should value when choosing conveyancing solicitors. Southwell conveyancing can be made a lot more complicated because of poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers listed strive to make sure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments instantly.
  • 3 Using a local Solicitor in the main results in a more personal touch. When using a an online conveyancing factory, your matter is handled by a team of people who check what is happening on the file by reading from their computer screens.
  • 4 Solicitors that specialise in conveyancing in Southwell have a grasp oflocal issues peculiar to Southwell and therefore you may benefit from better guidance and faster conveyancing.
  • 5 The Southwell conveyancing firms that are listed are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and investors in Southwell

Examples of recent conveyancing in Southwell since January 2025*

Disposal

of house property, Staythorpe Road, NG23 5SG completing on 23/01/2025 at a price of £195,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, sending conveyancing papers to buyers representatives, preparing statement detailing charges

Sale

of semi-detached premises, Orchard Drive, NG14 6GP completing on 17/01/2025 at a price of £285,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: drafting the sale agreement and Transfer, dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, setting up the completion formalities

Disposal

of terraced premises, Mansfield Lane, NG14 6HL completing on 21/01/2025 at a price of £400,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, agreeing completion date with parties, setting up the completion formalities

Transfer

of terraced property, Mill Gate, NG24 4TR completing on 23/01/2025 at a price of £175,000. The conveyancing process incorporates some of the following tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in readiness for completion, sending title deeds and executed transfer to buyer’s conveyancer

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Southwell

Our Southwell lawyer has identified a discrepancy between the assumptions in the valuation report and what is revealed within the legal papers for the property. My lawyer has advised that he is duty bound to check that the bank is happy with this discrepancy and is content to go ahead. Is my solicitor’s course or action right?

Your solicitor must comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook specifications which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for both parties.

I happen to be the single beneficiary of my late mum's estate and I have everything in my name now, including the house in Southwell. The Southwell property was put into my name in March. I want to move. I do know about the CML six month 'rule', meaning my proprietorship may be regarded the same way as though I had purchased the property in March. Will no one buy the property for half a year?

The CML handbook obliges solicitors to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." Technically you may be affected by that. How sensible a view mortgage companies take of it, depend on the mortgage company as this requirement principally exists to pick up on subsales or the wholesaling and assigning of properties.

Last month we had a mortgage agreed in principle with Skipton. Southwell conveyancing practitioners are instructed. How long does it take for Skipton to issue the offer to the conveyancing practitioner?

Some lenders take longer than others. Have Skipton done the survey? Have you informed Skipton as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Skipton conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.

I am selling my house. I had a double glazing fitted in February 2007, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My buyer's mortgage company, UBS are being pedantic. The Southwell solicitor who is on the UBS conveyancing panel is happy to accept ‘lack of building regulation’ insurance but UBS are requiring a building regulation certificate. Why do UBS have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?

It is probably the case that UBS have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why UBS may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.

I used Wolstenholmes a few years past for my conveyancing in Southwell. I now require my papers but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Southwell of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I decided to have a survey carried out on a property in Southwell before retaining solicitors. I have been informed that there is a flying freehold element to the house. Our surveyor has said that some mortgage companies will not grant a mortgage on such a premises.

It depends who your proposed lender is. HSBC has different requirements for example to Nationwide. Should you wish to call us we can check via the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Southwell. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Southwell to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

My step-father has suggested that I appoint his conveyancers in Southwell. Should I choose my own solicitor?

No doubt the best way to select a conveyancing practitioner is to have referrals from friends or relatives who have used the firm that you are are thinking of instructing.

Is it true that a Southwell conveyancing company taken to court by clients for not carrying out comprehensive conveyancing investigations?

Our attention has not be brought to such a Southwell conveyancing matter but according to a recent report, clients acquiring a home elsewhere in England successfully sued their solicitor as a consequence of development permission to build a wind farm failing to be picked up in conveyancing searches.

Where you are buying in Southwell It is essential that your conveyancing practitioner purchase all Southwell conveyancing searches needed making sure that you have accurate and up to date information ahead of purchasing a property.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Southwell regulated by the SRA

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

  • Kirkland & Lane Llp, North Muskham Prebend, Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, NG25 0HQ
  • Payne And Gamage Solicitors, 48 Lombard Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1XP

Home selling conveyancing in Southwell ordinarily includes the following:

  • Lawyer instructed by the vendor on acceptance of the offer
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Drafting contract and related papers
  • Forwarding draft papers to the conveyancing practitioner acting for the purchaser
  • Negotiating contracts and responding to supplemental questions from the buyer’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Negotiating the transfer deed
  • Responding to requisitions raised by the purchaser’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion of the sale
  • Receiving sale proceeds and sending funds to the seller, the estate agent and other relevant parties (where appropriate)

Southwell commercial property solicitors provide expert offering advice on a variety of aspects of commercial property law

    Property due diligence in connection with corporate acquisitions and disposals Subletting, licences and sharing occupation Industrial and warehouse premises Advice on commercial mortgages General advice on title or other property issues

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

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