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  • 1 The Woldingham conveyancing practitioners that are listed are committed to supplying the most cost, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Woldingham
  • 2 Regardless other sites say it could be necessary to attend your conveyancer to execute legal papers. There are enough parties with an interest in a conveyancing transaction without having to include Royal Mail into the mix.
  • 3 On the balance of probabilities the the lawyers for the other party are located in Woldingham - if so sets of solicitors will have worked on conveyancing matters in the past
  • 4 Our site is the only site that enables you the ability to check that your conveyancing in Woldingham will be carried out by a property lawyer on your lender’s conveyancing panel.
  • 5 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Woldingham is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by national chain estate agents) often falls short of the level of professionalism you will expect.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Woldingham since January 2025*

Conveyance

of flat Farm Road CR6 9DH, acquired for £355,000. Leasehold conveyancing work included: sending the transfer to the vendor for signature in preparation for completion, taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, obtaining official copies of the title

Transfer

of house residence, Tillingdown Hill, CR3 6QN completing on 15/01/2025 at a price of £610,000. The legal transfer of property included amongst the various tasks: taking formal instructions from and updating the seller client, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

Sale

of semi-detached property, Landscape Road, CR6 9JB completing on 14/01/2025 at a price of £1,575,000. The conveyancing process included amongst the various tasks: dealing with appropriate requisitions and enquiries, sending the transfer to the seller for execution in preparation for completion, ordering official copies of the title

Transfer

of terraced residence, Stafford Road, CR3 6NP completing on 22/01/2025 at a price of £440,000. The legal transfer of property incorporates some of the following tasks: securing official copies of the title, preparing statement detailing charges, setting up the completion formalities

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Woldingham

Please help. My Woldingham lawyer is advising me that he has toconduct Woldingham conveyancing searches asthe firm are on the Santandersolicitor panel. These Woldingham searches cost a lot of money can this be avoided?

You have limited options available to you. As you are taking a home loan with a mortgage company your conveyancing practitioner has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your property lawyer would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of your lender’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook provisions . Even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out Woldingham conveyancing searches.

What is the best way to investigate if the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Woldingham is on the mortgage lender’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Clydesdale thus spending £175.00 in further conveyancing costs.

Feel free to make the most of the search tool on this page. Please choose the mortgage company and type ‘Woldingham’ or your location and you will discover a number of lawyer offices in Woldingham or near you.

We are purchasing a property in Woldingham. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a solicitor? At some point we have to put funds into their account. What is the protection we have from them run away with our deposit?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

I have paid off my mortgage with Coventry BS. I assume I don't need a Woldingham conveyancer on the Coventry BS panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your Coventry BS mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Coventry BS mortgage from the register. Coventry BS, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

  1. but are not moving to another property
  2. where Coventry BS has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
  3. Coventry BS has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Coventry BS mortgage has been paid off.

I was told two weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Clydesdale. Is it usual for Clydesdale to only issue the offer once my solicitor in Woldingham is approved on their conveyancing panel? Clydesdale have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their PI Insurance.

Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Clydesdale to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

I appreciate that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Am I compelled to take this when purchasing a property in Woldingham? or I am told that there is historic law that could mean that homeowners residing in a parish church boundary may be liable to contribute towards maintenance towards the chancel in proximity to the church. Is this applicable for conveyancing in Woldingham?

Unless a prior purchase of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you can take it that conveyancing practitioners delivering conveyancing in Woldingham to continue to advocate a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a simple, no chain conveyancing. Woldingham is the location of the property. Can you offer any opinion?

Flying freeholds in Woldingham are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Woldingham you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Woldingham 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 premises.

If all goes to plan we aim to complete the disposal of our £125,000 maisonette in Woldingham in nine days. The freeholder has quoted £348 for Certificate of Compliance, insurance certificate and previous years statements of service charge. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge exorbitant fees for a leasehold conveyance in Woldingham?

Woldingham conveyancing on leasehold flats typically involves fees being raised by management companies :

    Addressing pre-exchange enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Woldingham 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 Woldingham leasehold property is £350. For Woldingham 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 required to provide the information.

Having spent months of negotiations we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Woldingham. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

Most certainly. We can put you in touch with a Woldingham conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a Woldingham property is 223 Brighton Road in September 2013. The premium payable for the acquisition freehold of the properties should be £10,934 (Ten thousand,nine hundred and thirty four pounds) This case affected 3 flats. The unexpired term was 75 years.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Woldingham

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Woldingham practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on wrongful eviction

  • Dollman & Pritchard, 8 The Square, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 6XS
  • Baldwin & Robinson Limited, 4 Oxted Chambers, 185-187 Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0QE
  • Teresa M Cornwell, 37 Station Road West, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 9EE
  • H&h Lawyers Limited, 12 Station Road West, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 9ES
  • Awan Solicitors, 32 Pondfield Road, Kenley, Surrey, CR8 5JX

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Woldingham regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Woldingham practicing in commercial conveyancing in Woldingham. This may include advice on buying and selling small and large scale commercial property and agricultural land
  • Dollman & Pritchard, 8 The Square, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 6XS
  • Nichols & Nichols Solicitors, Suite 3, 157 Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0QE
  • Baldwin & Robinson Limited, 4 Oxted Chambers, 185-187 Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0QE
  • Teresa M Cornwell, 37 Station Road West, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 9EE
  • H&h Lawyers Limited, 12 Station Road West, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 9ES

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

Licensed Conveyancers deal with the transfer of the legal title of a property from one person to another and cover conveyancing nationwide as well as Woldingham. When appointed a Licensed Conveyancer governed by the CLC, you should:
  • Have an honest and lawful service.
  • Be supplied with a high standard of legal services.
  • Have your matters dealt with using care, skill and legal know-how.
  • Enjoy the benefit of 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.
  • You should not consider yourself discriminated against, victimised or harassed.
  • Not receive a service which is below the standard you could expect, however, if you do your lawyer accepts responsibility for this and provides you with any appropriate redress.
  • Have your specific needs taken into account should you make a complaint.
  • Receive a speedy, impartial and comprehensive service if making a complaint about your conveyancing in Woldingham about your conveyancing in Woldingham.

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

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