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Logical reasons to let us help you select a high street conveyancing solicitor in Woolwich

  • 1 The companies identified on our directory have a mix of conveyancing solicitors, legal executives and support staff handling thousands of conveyancing matters annually.
  • 2 Woolwich property lawyers work in partnership with Woolwich estate agents, developers, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to make sure that a quality service is provided to home movers every step of the way, ensuring the smoothest, most stress-free process possible
  • 3 Notwithstanding what other solicitors may claim it may be important to visit your solicitor to sign contracts. Too many 3rd parties are already engaged in a house sale without needing to include Royal Mail into the equation.
  • 4 Woolwich solicitors will acquainted with the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and property agents
  • 5 Solicitors that specialise in conveyancing in Woolwich have a grasp oflocal concerns peculiar to Woolwich and therefore you may benefit from better advice and faster conveyancing.

Examples of recent conveyancing in Woolwich since July 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Woolwich

My wife and I are buying a new build flat in Woolwich and my lawyer is informing me that she is duty bound to the bank to reveal incentives from the developer. The Estate Agents are hassling me to exchange contracts and I have no desire to delay matters. Is my lawyer right?

You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on a mortgage company panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.

How up to date is your database of Woolwich solicitors on the Co-operative conveyancing panel? Do Co-operative send you an updated list?

Woolwich conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Co-operative directly.

I have been advised by a couple of local estate agents in Woolwich to locate a property lawyer using your seach tool. Is there a financial upside for Estate Agents to offer your lawyers over and above a competitor’s?

We don’t offer any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers in our direction. We thought it would be too underhand to pay a commission as 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 looking for a conveyancing lawyer in Woolwich for my house move. Is there any facility to review a solicitor's complaints history with the profession’s regulator?

You may read published Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations stemming from inquisitions from 2008 onwards. Visit Check a solicitor's record. For records Pre 2008, or to check a firm's record, 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, dial +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator may monitor call for training reasons.

I am a negotiator for a long established estate agency in Woolwich where we have witnessed a few leasehold sales derailed due to leases having less than 80 years remaining. I have been given contradictory information from local Woolwich conveyancing firms. Can you clarify whether the vendor of a flat can commence the lease extension process for the buyer?

Provided that the seller has owned the lease for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to kick-start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. This means that the proposed purchaser can avoid having to wait 2 years to extend their lease. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment needs to be completed before, or at the same time as completion of the disposal of the property.

Alternatively, it may be possible to extend the lease informally by agreement with the landlord either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the purchaser.

Following years of dialogue we cannot agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Woolwich. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

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

An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Woolwich property is 46 Credon Road in January 2014. On 11 September 2013 Deputy District Judge Price sitting at the Bow County Court made a vesting order that the freeholder surrender his lease and be granted a new lease of the Premises on such terms as may be determined by the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).The appropriate sum as concluded by the Tribunal was £7225 This case related to 1 flat. The remaining number of years on the lease was 69.77 years.

Do online conveyancing organisations undertake everything a local Woolwich solicitor does or must I employ a solicitor for the final stages for my conveyancing in Woolwich?

Where you use an online conveyancer they should cover all the things your Woolwich solicitor would cover.

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Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Woolwich regulated by the SRA

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

  • Hughes-narborough & Thomas, 83-85 Powis Street, London, SE18 6JX
  • Anaysse-jacobs Solicitors, First Floor Offices, 33-35 Powis Street, London, London, SE18 6HZ
  • H E Thomas & Co, 16 Beresford Square, London, SE18 6AY
  • Whitehorse Solicitors, Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF
  • Atlantic Solicitors, Suite 209 Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, London, SE18 6PF

Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Woolwich

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Woolwich practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This could include advice on Leasehold Valuation Tribunal proceedings

  • Powell & Co, Verbruggen's House, No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal Riverside, London, SE18 6GH
  • Saviours Solicitors, 1a Barnard Close, London, SE18 6JQ
  • Hughes-narborough & Thomas, 83-85 Powis Street, London, SE18 6JX
  • H E Thomas & Co, 16 Beresford Square, London, SE18 6AY
  • James Solicitors, Ground Floor, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Woolwich regulated by the SRA

The firms listed below are a small selection of solicitors in Woolwich specialising in commercial conveyancing in Woolwich. This could include advice on taking a commercial lease as a tenant
  • Anaysse-jacobs Solicitors, First Floor Offices, 33-35 Powis Street, London, London, SE18 6HZ
  • Whitehorse Solicitors, Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF
  • James Solicitors, Ground Floor, 18-36 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6PF
  • Atlantic Solicitors, Suite 209 Island Business Centre, 18-36 Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, London, SE18 6PF
  • Hudgell & Partners, 35-36 Market Street, London, SE18 6QP

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

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