Having sold my house in Shoreditch last October yet the purchaser is SMS messaging every few hours to say his lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?

Following your disposal your conveyancer is committed to forward the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. If applicable, your solicitor must also confirm that the home loan has been paid off to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures just for conveyancing in Shoreditch.

Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Shoreditch. My lender is Platform

Platform have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 20/12/2025, the requirements read as follows :

Will my solicitor be raising questions about flooding as part of the conveyancing in Shoreditch.

Flooding is a growing risk for solicitors dealing with homes in Shoreditch. There are those who buy a property in Shoreditch, completely expectant that at some time, it may suffer from flooding. However, leaving to one side the physical destruction, where a house is at risk of flooding, it may be difficult to obtain a mortgage, adequate building insurance, or sell the premises. Steps can be carried out during the course of a property purchase to forewarn the buyer.

Solicitors are not qualified to give advice on flood risk, however there are a numerous checks that may be carried out by the purchaser or on a buyer’s behalf which will give them a better appreciation of the risks in Shoreditch. The conventional set of information sent to a buyer’s solicitor (where the solicitors are adopting what is known as the Conveyancing Protocol) includes a standard question of the vendor to determine if the premises has suffered from flooding. If the property has been flooded in past which is not notified by the vendor, then a purchaser may commence a legal claim for losses resulting from an inaccurate answer. A buyer’s solicitors will also carry out an environmental search. This will indicate if there is a recorded flood risk. If so, further inquiries will need to be conducted.

I used Arc property Solicitors several years past for my conveyancing in Shoreditch. I now require my papers but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

Do contact 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 Shoreditch of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I'm purchasing my first flat in Shoreditch benefiting from help to buy. The developers would not reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of additionals instead. The property agent advised me not inform my solicitor about this deal as it may affect my mortgage with the lender. Is this normal?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.