Residential conveyancing solicitors

The process of buying or selling a home is often financially and emotionally demanding and the timetable of a property transaction can sometimes feel beyond the buyer or seller’s control. Clarke Willmott provides a bespoke and flexible conveyancing service to ensure that your sale and/or purchase is completed as smoothly as possible.

What is conveyancing?

Conveyancing is the legal work involved in the sale or purchase of property or land. As well as agreeing conditions of your mortgage and reviewing your transfer of ownership contract, it also involves a variety of searches to minimise the risk of your transaction and ensure nothing important has been missed. These in-depth searches include, amongst other things, checking building plans for the area, the financial liability of previous tenants, and whether your property or land is in an area that is at risk of floods or other environmental damage.

Whilst it is not a legal requirement to use a conveyancing solicitor for your transaction, if anything is missed during these searches the consequences can be severe.

Our conveyancing services

Our conveyancing team acts for individuals, partnerships, trusts, companies, overseas investors and financial institutions. Whether you are buying a house for the first time, selling a grade two listed building or looking to remortgage your existing property, we understand that every transaction brings its own challenges and we do all we can to support our clients.

• Buying and selling a residential property, including property investments, new build, and buy to let transactions
• Joint ownership, transfer of ownership or equity and partition of ownership, including matrimonial transfers
• Rural property
• Freehold, leasehold and lease extensions
• Landed estates
• Re-financing / Re-mortgaging
• Stamp duty land tax (SDLT)
• Probate sales
• Auction sales
• Land registry applications

Our approach to working with you

Your matter will be dealt with by a qualified solicitor or a legal executive who will assess your needs and expectations at the outset and regularly communicate with you throughout the transaction to ensure you are always up to date. We will also give you full and clear details of the financial elements of the matter and advise you in good time when payments are required. It is important to us that we develop an excellent working relationship with our clients, as well as with the other parties, estate agents, legal advisers and mortgage brokers, and we endeavour to respond to all telephone and email communication on the same day.

We have the expertise and knowledge to deal with the most complex situations and can also draw on the support of the other services Clarke Willmott has to offer such as wills and tax planning, agricultural property advice and dispute resolution, including mediation.

Clarke Willmott is accredited by The Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme.

What our clients say about us

“Positive in his approach to things. He looks ahead to the complications and finds a solution.” Client of Rod Lloyd-Jones quoted in Chambers UK 2017

“Without question, I’ve never dealt with a better solicitor on a conveyancing transaction.” Client of Mark Buckerfield quoted in Chambers UK 2017

“Margaret Vining and her team have been excellent throughout. Good communication. Always reachable. Very efficient.” Client

“I’ve used a number of other firms before, but Ruth Morris and her team are just something else. I’m happy to pay more to know I won’t lose out on a deal because of complacency from solicitor’s side. I very much hope that the senior managers in your organisation also appreciate how good this team is.” Client

Contact a conveyancing solicitor

If you would like to find out more about how our conveyancing team can support you, you can contact Margaret Vining, Rod Lloyd Jones, Mark Buckerfield or Ruth Morris directly using the details given on their profile pages, or by calling 0800 652 8025.

Clarke Willmott has offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Taunton and we provide conveyancing advice to clients located within the UK and around the world.