Having been recommended your service we were about to use a conveyancing solicitor in Swindon recommended by you but stumbled across alternative estimates on the internet look cheaper – how come?

You can find many firms of conveyancing outfits marketing at first sight what seems to be cut price. Our recommendation is to give due consideration as to how important this transaction is to you that want to take 'cheap' risks with regard to the quality of the legal work. Some hide extras well inside the terms of engagement. The law firms that we list for conveyancing in Swindon neverdo this.

I am buying a house without a mortgage in Swindon. I have been living for the previous Seventeen years in Swindon. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. As I have knowledge of the road and vicinity intimately must I have all the conveyancing searches?

Provided that you do not need a mortgage, then almost all of the Swindon conveyancing searches are at your discretion. Your solicitor will ’encourage you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches completed, but she is duty bound to take that path of guidance. One thing to consider; if you are going to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your prospective buyer what the searches determine. There are plenty of instances where houses with functional issues can still throw up unfavourable search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Swindon should provide you some practical guidance in this regard.

Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Swindon even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for example where I want to buy a shop in Swindon with a loan from Chelsea Building Society?

Our search tool is primarily used to help choose domestic conveyancing solicitors in Swindon but we have set out towards the end of this page a selection of Swindon commercial conveyancing firms. You should make contact with the solicitors directly to see if they are also authorised to represent Chelsea Building Society

Will my lawyer be making enquiries regarding flooding during the conveyancing in Swindon.

Flooding is a growing risk for solicitors dealing with homes in Swindon. There are those who acquire a property in Swindon, completely expectant that at some time, it may be flooded. However, leaving to one side the physical destruction, where a property is at risk of flooding, it may be difficult to get a mortgage, adequate building insurance, or dispose of the premises. There are steps that can be taken as part of the conveyancing process to forewarn the purchaser.

Lawyers are not best placed to offer advice on flood risk, however there are a various checks that can be carried out by the purchaser or on a buyer’s behalf which can figure out the risks in Swindon. The standard information sent to a buyer’s lawyer (where the Conveyancing Protocol is adopted) contains a standard question of the owner to determine if the premises has suffered from flooding. If the premises has been flooded in past and is not notified by the owner, then a buyer may issue a claim for damages as a result of such an misleading reply. A purchaser’s lawyers should also commission an enviro search. This will higlight whether there is a recorded flood risk. If so, additional inquiries should be carried out.

I am buying a new build apartment in Swindon. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Swindon

Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. Please supply a car parking plan. Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants.