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Top 5 reasons to use our service to help you select a local conveyancing solicitor in Wedmore

  • 1 Wedmore solicitors work in conjunction with Wedmore estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that a quality service is offered to home movers every step of the way, to ensure you’re kept informed as to progress all the way along
  • 2 Excellent communication and pure property experience are key benefits that you should look for when selecting conveyancing solicitors. Wedmore property deals can become significantly more stressful as a result of lack of transparency between all the parties. The lawyers listed ensure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments expeditiously.
  • 3 The Wedmore conveyancing firms that are listed are dedicated to providing the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to borrowers, sellers and investors in Wedmore
  • 4 Wedmore lawyer are the key to a successful Wedmore conveyancing experience, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your conveyancing
  • 5 Our site is the only site offering you the facility to ensure that your conveyancing in Wedmore will be carried out by a solicitor on your lender’s conveyancing panel.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Wedmore since May 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Wedmore

Would the conveyancing solicitors revealed via your search tool handle right to buy conveyancing in Wedmore?

We do have a variety of conveyancing lawyers carrying out right to buy conveyancing work You should e-mail us with a view to secure a costs illustration.

I am assisting my mother sell her flat in Wedmore. Will the conveyancer commission an energy assessment or it is for me to coordinate?

After the demise of Home Information Packs, energy assessments became a mandatory component of moving property. An energy performance certificate must be to hand prior to the property being marketed. This is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers ordinarily organise. Where you are using a Wedmore conveyancing practitioner they may be willing to arrange energy assessments given their relationships with long established local energy assessors

We have agreed to purchase a house in Wedmore. One unusual aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Solicitors conducting should look into this right? Will my lender Coventry BS be concerned?

Given that your lender is Coventry BS your lawyer must comply with the conveyancing requirements contained in Part 2 of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Coventry BS. The CML Handbook includes minimum requirements for solar panel roof-space leases, and solicitors are required to report to Coventry BS where a lease does not satisfy these conditions. The conditions relate to the installation of panels on properties nationwide and is not restricted to Wedmore.

My fiancee and I are spending time looking at houses in Wedmore and I am about to put in an offer. Is it premature to have a solicitor in place? I intend to finance via a home loan with Nottingham.

It would be prudent to instigate your search sooner rather than later. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their details on to the EA. Given that you are getting a mortgage with Nottingham, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel.

I used Arc property Solicitors several years ago for my conveyancing in Wedmore. Now, I need my files however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Wedmore 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.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £305k and found one round the corner in Wedmore I like with amenity areas and transport links in the vicinity, the downside is that it only has 51 years unexpired on the lease. There is not much else in Wedmore in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?

Should you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing owner has owned the premises for at least 2 years you could request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this matter.

I am looking for a conveyancing practitioner in Wedmore for my home move. Is it possible to review a solicitor's record with the profession’s regulator?

You may search for documented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations resulting from inquisitions from 2008 onwards. Visit Check a solicitor's record. For information about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a solicitors history, telephone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For callers outside the UK, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA may recorded call for training requirements.

I have just started marketing my 2 bed apartment in Wedmore. Conveyancing is yet to be initiated, however I have recently had a yearly service charge invoice – Do I pay up?

Your conveyancing lawyer is likely to suggest that you should pay the invoice as usual because all rents and maintenance payments will be allotted as part of the financial calculations for completion monies, so you will be reimbursed by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer unless the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process.

I inherited a leasehold flat in Wedmore, conveyancing formalities finalised 9 years ago. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Corresponding flats in Wedmore with a long lease are worth £165,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £50 per annum. The lease terminates on 21st October 2102

With just 77 years left to run the likely cost is going to be between £7,600 and £8,800 as well as professional fees.

The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure in the absence of comprehensive investigations. Do not use this information in tribunal or court proceedings. There are no doubt other issues that need to be taken into account and you obviously want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you take any other action based on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.

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What to expect from a Licensed Conveyancer for conveyancing in Wedmore?

Licensed Conveyancers specialise in the legalities surrounding purchasing and selling property and cover conveyancing countrywide as well as Wedmore. If using a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you can expect:
  • Be supplied with an honest and lawful conveyancing.
  • Enjoy the benefit of a high standard of legal services.
  • Enjoy the benefit of your matters dealt with using care, skill and diligence.
  • Receive a high quality of service due to your lawyer’s arrangements, resources, procedures, skills and commitment.
  • Receive a service which is accessible and responsive to your individual needs.
  • Not feel discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • Not receive a service which is below the level you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Ensure your specific needs taken into account should you make a complaint.
  • Be provided with a swift, independent and comprehensive service when if a complaint is made about your conveyancing in Wedmore.

Domestic conveyancing in Wedmore ordinarily consists of the following:

  • Obtaining instructions from the appropriate parties
  • Checking the title unregistered or registered
  • Carrying out Wedmore conveyancing searches for the property
  • Assessing draft contract pack and other papers prepared the owner’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Submitting enquiries with the owner’s conveyancing practitioner
  • Negotiating the sale contract
  • Considering the replies given by the seller to pre-exchange enquiries
  • Agreeing the wording for the Transfer Deed for completion
  • Guiding the buyer in respect of the loan offer: (if relevant)
  • Drafting and sending the buyer a report on title (that is; a breakdown of all findings on the property)
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then completion of the purchase
  • Completion of and submitting to HMRC the appropriate SDLT forms and payment
  • Registering the change in ownership and the mortgage (if relevant) at the Land Registry.

Typically, Wedmore conveyancing for a sale includes some of the following tasks

  • Conveyancer instructed by the vendor once the offer has been accepted
  • Investigating the title to the property
  • Preparing contract and associated papers
  • Supplying draft papers to the lawyer retained by the purchaser
  • Finalising the wording for contracts and replying to supplemental questions from the buyer’s lawyer
  • Finalising the transfer deed
  • Replying to requisitions raised by the purchaser’s lawyer
  • Carrying out the key stage of exchanging contracts and then preparing for completion
  • Receiving sale proceeds and sending funds to the seller, the estate agent and other relevant parties (if applicable)

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

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