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Selling property in Kentish Town
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Kentish Town, 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 Kentish Town conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Kentish Town?
Kentish Town is a district and area of North London (some would say North West London, but this would be splitting hairs) in the London Borough of Camden. It has a long history and, curiously, was the home of several piano and organ manufacturers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among various other idiosyncrasies of the area, a network of streets in the East of Kentish Town has streets named after places or people connected with Christ Church, Oxford, such as Oseney, Busby, Gaisford, and Caversham. Some of the freehold of these streets is still in the name of Christ Church Oxford and there's a similar story in a network of streets in the north of the area, which was part of a large estate owned by St John's College, Cambridge.
Regarding landmarks and attractions for this well-connected and desirable area, there is the Forum, a music venue open for decades and perennially relevant, showcasing many different styles of music; The Dandy Lion market, with its mix of independent vintage items and affordable arts and crafts objects (Kentish Town Road/Islip Street); the beautiful Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Andrew and, of course, Camden with its world-famous markets. Other attractions are within easy reach and Central London is but a bus ride or longer walk away.
Royal Free Hospital, Pond St, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG
The Whittington Hospital, Magdala Ave, London N19 5NF
St Pancras Hospital, 4 St. Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PE
Kentish Town has various train stations: the Northern Line Tube Station of the same name, which makes Central London only around 10 minutes away; Kentish Town Overland, which is on the Thameslink, connecting Bedford and Brighton; and Kentish Town West, which offers more overland services. The Kentish Town Road is the A400 and the A1 is within easy reach. It also connects to the A406 North Circular Road and the M1 for the motorway network. There are numerous red London buses for short hops.
Distance to Airports from Kentish Town
| Airport | Miles by car |
| London City Airport | 9.2 miles |
| Heathrow Airport | 14.5 miles |
| Luton Airport | 24.4 miles |
Acland Burghley School, 93 Burghley Rd, Tufnell Park, London NW5 1UJ
The Bridge Secondary School, 28 Carleton Rd, London N7 0EQ
Parliament Hill School, Highgate Rd, Highgate, London NW5 1RL
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Kentish Town
Our Kentish Town conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Primrose Hill, Camden, Holloway, Tufnell Park, Belsize Park, Barnsbury and Hampstead.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Crowndale Court NW1 1TY
- Rochester Road, NW1 9JH
- Gloucester Place, Marylebone NW1 6DX
- Camden Court, NW1 0SX
- Kiln Place NW5 4AL
- London Square (apartments, various sizes) – 423-425 Caledonian Rd, London N7 9BQ
Developed by London Square
Kentish Town Property Prices
| Average property price in Kentish Town | £963,826 |
| Population of Kentish Town | 13,417 (2011) |
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Should I use a Licensed Conveyancer or Conveyancing Solicitor near me?
Solicitors are usually more expensive than a conveyancer, which is fine as long as they specialise in property transactions. It can be beneficial to choose a property lawyer in case of any specialist legal complications with your property transaction, but the best-of-both approach is to instruct a licensed conveyancing solicitor who employs some other conveyancing professionals to complete the simpler parts of the work under their supervision, at a lower rate.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Kentish Town?
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 Kentish Town has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Kentish Town 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 Kentish Town 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 Kentish Town - speak to London Borough of Camden Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Kentish Town - check with London Borough of Camden Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Kentish Town conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Kentish Town Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Kentish Town 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 Kentish Town?
If there are 80 years or less on the Kentish Town 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 Kentish Town; 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 Kentish Town
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?
Kentish Town 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
How can you avoid being gazumped?
Gazumping is still a persistent problem in the England & Wales property market. It's pretty awful to have set your heart on a property you've had an offer accepted on, only for the seller to pull out before exchange of contracts. The question is, what can you do about it?
One possible solution is to get an Exclusivity Agreement with a non-refundable deposit. You agree one with your seller at the point you have your offer accepted, and then the seller can't accept higher offers.
These can slow down the conveyancing process, however, as both yours and the other side's solicitor will want to review exactly what's being agreed.
Call us on 0333 344 3234 if you'd like to discuss this option and read more about the 4 ways to protect yourself from being gazumped
You are also protected from the legal costs of your sale falling through by our No Sale No Fee Conveyancing.
