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Selling property in Benfleet
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Benfleet, 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 Benfleet conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Benfleet?
Benfleet is a pleasant town in the Castle Point district of Essex County, around 30 miles east of Central London and is just north of Canvey Island.
Landmarks include St Mary Church (Church of England) and Benfleet Water Tower, which is 30 metres high. You can enjoy a great day out in Hadleigh Country Park, a rural expanse with an Iron Age roundhouse on Chapel Lane, and Hadleigh Castle on Castle Lane, which has ruined towers dating back to the 1200s overlooking marshes.
Southend Hospital, Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RY
Rochford Hospital, Union Lane, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1RB
Basildon University Hospital, Nethermayne, Basildon, Essex, SS16 5NL
Benfleet Station is on the line connecting London Fenchurch, Tilbury and Southend. By road, nearby trunk roads include A13, A12, A127 and A130 which all connect the town to London.
Distance to Airports from Benfleet
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Stansted | 32.5 miles |
| Gatwick | 50.6 miles |
| Heathrow | 59.6 miles |
The Deanes School, Daws Heath Rd, Thundersley, Benfleet SS7 2TD
The FitzWimarc School, 72 Hockley Rd, Rayleigh SS6 8EB
The Appleton School, Croft Road, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5RN
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Benfleet
Our Benfleet conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Southend on Sea, Chelmsford, Rayleigh, Basildon, Canvey Island, Billericay and Grays.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Stanley Road, Benfleet, SS7 3EL
- 81 Chesterfield Avenue, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 4AH
- 76 Thundersley Park Road, Benfleet, SS7 1ET
- 122 London Rd, Benfleet, Essex SS7 5SQ
- 410 Church Rd, Benfleet SS7 3HB
- Apartment 6 Highgrove (apartment) – High Road, Benfleet, SS7 5LA.
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Benfleet Property Prices
| Average property price in Benfleet | £435,491 |
| Population of Benfleet | 19,584 |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Are local, licensed conveyancing solicitors near me more expensive?
Buyers and sellers alike often start the process by searching online for conveyancing solicitors in Benfleet. You need to find a legally qualified person to handle the conveyancing for your sale or purchase. But, do you really need to use local property lawyers or can you find a better service, regardless of where they are based?
With technological progress, you are no longer restricted to having to work with a licenced conveyancer near you. Often an online conveyancing solicitor who specialises in property transactions will be preferable to a local one in Benfleet.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Benfleet?
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 Benfleet has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Benfleet 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 Benfleet 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 Benfleet - speak to Castle Point Borough Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Benfleet - check with Castle Point Borough Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Benfleet conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Benfleet Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Benfleet to a Sale and Purchase of a shared ownership property, executing a Deed of Trust simultaneously.
Are you buying or selling a short lease in Benfleet?
If there are 80 years or less on the Benfleet leasehold, it will be harder to mortgage. Whether you're buying or selling, you should consider extending the lease, which may be done before, during, or in some cases after the transaction.
Our specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors have vast experience handling the extension of a short lease for the buyer or the seller in Benfleet; speak to a SAM advisor for inclusive, fixed fee, conveyancing quotes for leasehold conveyancing or share of freehold conveyancing today. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Benfleet
Essex is not only a coastal county (the North Sea is to its east) but a home county too because it touches Greater London on its eastern borders. Its settlements vary from Colchester, which is very historical - used to be the capital of England as Camulodunum, to Southend - a seaside resort and Basildon, which is a comparatively modern urban development. The western side of Essex hosts many London workers and there are fast rail links to, for example, Shenfield from London Liverpool Street which aid many city workers.
Essex's county town is Chelmsford (and is the county's only city), where Essex County Cricket Club is based. Essex hosts Stansted Airport and various attractions such as the Lakeside Shopping Centre near Thurrock and the Epping Forest, a popular forest for camping and other activities. A large proportion of Essex's boundaries are bodies of water (the River Thames and the North Sea), with the remainder including Greater London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Kent is across the River Thames to the south.
**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?
Benfleet 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
Which Property Searches Do You Need?
Property is the largest investment most people ever make. Make sure you know if there are any issues or defects which could reduce its value.
Searches flag any risks or threats to the property and its surrounding area for further investigation. These include subsidence, flood risks, radon gas seepage, planning permissions and preservation orders.
Book at least the four main searches from the Castle Point Borough Council; these are local authority, environmental, drainage, and chancel repair. These may suggest getting further searches such as Flood Risk, Mining or an HS2 Report. Your licensed conveyancing solicitor can advise you on this.
