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Selling property in Bellingham
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Bellingham, will include:
- Draft contracts – Your conveyancing solicitor drafts the initial legal contract to be sent to the buyer's solicitor.
- Responding to enquiries – your solicitor responds to any questions the buyer's solicitor may have (this is where you'll find out if you are missing documents, which can cause delays to your sale).
- Investigating issues – your solicitor may need to complete further investigation to try and satisfy them.
- Exchange contracts – once the buyer's solicitor has satisfied their enquiries, contracts are finalised and exchanged
- On the day of completion – your solicitor receives the money for the sale, discharges the mortgage (if required), pays the estate agent, deducts their fee and then sends the net sale proceeds to you.
- Post completion – your solicitor receives the DS1 discharge documents and, when leasehold, settles your liabilities for ground rent and service charges.
Our Bellingham conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Bellingham?
Bellingham is an area in Lewisham Borough in South East London, 7 miles south-east of the centre of London. Randlesdown Road is the main hub with a large variety of shops for all needs.
Those who like laser quest-type games might wish to visit Quasar Elite in Bromley Hill (for those over 7 only). Family fun can be had at Kelsey Park and Minigolf Course in Kelsey Park, Beckenham - some holes have been reviewed as being reasonably challenging, even for the more experienced adult!
University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham High St, SE13 6LH
Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
East Dulwich Community Hospital, East Dulwich Grove, London, SE22 8PT
Bellingham Station is on the line between Kentish Town and Sevenoaks and has frequent trains to Central London. The A21 runs through Bellingham and connects Lewisham with Hastings. The A406 South Circular Road is also within easy reach.
Distance to Airports from Bellingham
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Gatwick | 25 miles |
| Heathrow | 27 miles |
| Luton | 40 miles |
Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Maberley Rd, London, SE19 2JH
Forest Hill School, Dacres Rd, London, SE23 2XN
Harris Academy Beckenham, Manor Way, Beckenham, BR3 3SJ
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Bellingham
Our Bellingham conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Sydenham, Catford, Honor Oak, Downham, Bromley, Lee and Lewisham.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Bellingham Road, London, SE6 2PT
- 7 Lutwyche Road, London, SE6 4EP
- 111 Sandhurst Road, Catford, London SE6 1UR
- 64 Hazelbank Road, Catford, SE6 1TQ
- 310 Flat C, Brownhill Road, Catford, London, SE6 1AX
- Lawrie Park Place (house) – Lawrie Park Crescent, Sydenham.
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Bellingham Property Prices
| Average property price in Bellingham | £502,176 |
| Population of Bellingham | 82,631 (2013) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
What are the Pros and Cons of using a licensed conveyancing solicitor in Bellingham?
The Pros of using property lawyers near me
- You may know your local conveyancing solicitors - this is a huge benefit if you know your solicitor already, especially if it is a small community where you live.
- You can drop your documents and ID off - losing your original ID and documents is always a worry, so being able pop in to your local conveyancing solicitors office helps alleviate this issue (although with scanned ID and online ID checks the worry of loss passport is a thing of the past).
The Cons of using property solicitors near me
- Not on your mortgage lender's panel - local law firms are often smaller with fewer principals which may exclude them from working with certain major high street solicitors.
- Taking time off from work - it isn't always easy to visit your solicitor and having to see them 2 or 3 times during the conveyancing process may add a strain onto your work life, or be unachievable if you live abroad.
- Locally inexperienced - your local solicitor may not specialise in conveyancing and may have more experience in other areas of law.
- Less competition, higher prices - with less competition your local solicitor's legal fees are most likely to cost more, especially if they have to keep premises in premium high-street real estate.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Bellingham?
Whether you're buying, selling, remortgaging, dealing with a lease, staircasing shared ownership, or paying offyour help to buy loan, you'll need a conveyancing specialist to handle the legal side of things. With SAM you get the benefit of dedicated conveyancing executive who'll guide you through the process, from start to finish, at no extra cost. Available Monday to Saturday to answer all your questions, we'll bridge the gap between you and your solicitor, with regular updates in plain English.
We have hand selected some of the best conveyancing solicitors Bellingham has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Bellingham conveyancing fee we quote is broken down so you can see exactly what your quote includes. What we quote you is the fixed price you will pay for the agreed work. No unpleasant surprises.
You'll also benefit form our state of the art Online Conveyancing Process to track your progress and next steps along the way.
Affordable Housing Schemes
Several affordable housing schemes in Bellingham help make buying a property more achievable. The work is more complex, and we have specialist conveyancing solicitors to handle the following:
- Shared Ownership Solicitors
- Right to Buy Solicitors Bellingham - speak to London Borough of Lewisham to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Bellingham - check with London Borough of Lewisham if they are running a DMS scheme
Bellingham conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Bellingham Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Bellingham to a Sale and Purchase of a shared ownership property, executing a Deed of Trust simultaneously.
Is the property over 5 storeys (11m)?
Many leasehold properties in Bellingham are in large buildings which now require an EWS1 certificate to confirm if the cladding is fire safe. Thankfully 2022's leaseholder protections mean that most leaseholders are not burdened with the cost of remediation of any defective cladding, but you will need to see the seller's Deed of Certificate to prove that the lease doesn't come with a nasty (and expensive) surprise.
Be particularly wary of purchasing a share of freehold as the freeholders may become liable for the cost of remedying defective cladding. Our specialist leasehold solicitors Bellingham are well experienced with handling all of these added complications, so you will be in safe hands with SAM. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Bellingham
Greater London is an area which contains London, the capital of the United Kingdom (which itself centres on the Cities of London and Westminster) and a number of surrounding boroughs which are administered as London boroughs and which are the overall executive responsibility of the Mayor of London. It contains a large number of constituencies, each represented by an MP and it should be noted that these are not the same as, nor even always contiguous with the borders of the boroughs.
Many parts of Greater London were originally administered by the counties which surround London and these counties are often called the home counties. Enfield, for example, used to be classed as being part of Middlesex, but is now near the northern border of Greater London. Greater London's borders often coincide with a zone of 'green belt': areas where it has been decided that open spaces, parks, forests and wildlife reserves should act as a buffer against urban sprawl. London has numerous landmarks, anything from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament to Karl Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery.
Greater London contains more than 9 million inhabitants, a number growing daily, and as this is approximately 1/7 of the population of the UK. It can be seen that Greater Londoners have a large influence on the rest of the country politically and this is enhanced by the concentration of skilled workers gravitating towards the capital.
London Property Market Reports
- April 2024 - London house prices 5% below their August peak
- Aug 2023 - Growth & Demand Falling under high interest rates
- Feb 2022 - London's housing volume hits record low
- Jan 2020 - London's Luxury Market Takes A Hit
- Sept 2019 - London house prices rise
- May 2019 - London's Housing Sales on Par with Last Crash
- March 2019 - London’s housing woes spread countrywide
- Aug 2018 - London's Sales Volumes on Life Support
- Nov 2018 - London On Its Knees
**Our panel of solicitors are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and conveyancing work is accredited with the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme.
***No Sale No Fee applies to any sale or purchase quote except auction and right to buy. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy.
What are the conveyancing costs?
Bellingham Conveyancing Solicitor fees vary between online conveyancing solicitors, high street conveyancers or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.
The actual conveyancing costs, outside of the legal work, should be fixed, including:
For buyers: stamp duty, land registration, property searches, ID searches and leasehold charges (if buying a leasehold property).
For sellers: office copies, title plan and management information (if selling a leasehold property).
Make sure to budget for all of the above conveyancing costs and to get a fixed fee conveyancing quote from several firms, to compare value.
Making the right choice of solicitor is key to the whole process:
- Cheap Conveyancing
- Fast Conveyancing
- Best Conveyancing Service
Can your parents sell you a property at a discount?
It's perfectly legal for your parents or a close relative to sell you a property at a discount and if your mortgage lender is happy with the arrangement, they can regard the discount as effectively making up the deposit. This is called a concessionary purchase.
You need to be quite clear with your mortgage lender about your intentions and you should also be aware that the more distant the relationship with the seller, the more of a challenge you'll find it is to recruit a lender: you should consider hiring a mortgage broker to help you.
Additionally there may be restrictions regarding matters such as if you intend that the seller should continue living in the property – many lenders will not allow this.
