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Selling property in Lewisham
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Lewisham, 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 Lewisham conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Lewisham?
Lewisham is an area of south-east London in Lewisham Borough, about 6 miles south-east of Central London. It has a town centre with a large shopping area and a hospital. It also has a number of parks, such as Hilly Fields.
The Horniman Museum hosts a collection of Victorian curiosities and the Broadway Theatre in Catford, which has 800 seats in an art deco building, hosts some excellent performances.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Stadium Rd, London, SE18 4QH
University Hospital Lewisham, High Street, Lewisham, London, E13 6LH
Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough Common, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8ND
Lewisham Rail Station gives links to London, as well as Sidcup, Orpington, Hayes, Dartford, Bexleyheath, Gillingham and Woolwich Arsenal. Lewisham also hosts the Docklands Light Railway, with its links to Bank, Stratford and Canary Wharf.
For road travellers, the A406 South Circular Road runs right through the area and the A2 and A20 are easily accessible. There are numerous London buses in the locale.
Distance to Airports from Lewisham
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Heathrow | 22.7 miles |
| Gatwick | 26.7 miles |
| Stansted | 37.6 miles |
Forest Hill School, Dacres Rd, London, SE23 2XN
Sydenham School, Dartmouth Rd, London, SE26 4RD
Prendergast School, Adelaide Avenue, London, SE4 1LE
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Lewisham
Our Lewisham conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including London, Westminster, Greenwich, Peckham, Bermondsey, Beckenham and Bromley.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Silwood Street, Lewisham, London, SE16 2AX
- 35 Mount Pleasant Road, Lewisham, London, SE13 6RE
- Flat 3, 350 Lee High Road, Lewisham, London, SE12 8RS
- Flat 4, Walter Landgley Court, 14 Brunel Road, London, SE16 7HT
- 37 Webster Road, Lewisham, London, SE16 4DR
- Vale Apartments (apartments) – Loampit Vale, Lewisham.
Developed by Peabody; available under Shared Ownership.
Lewisham Property Prices
| Average property price in Lewisham | £595,529 |
| Population of Lewisham | 275,885 (2011) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
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 Lewisham?
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 Lewisham has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham - speak to Lewisham Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Lewisham - check with Lewisham Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Lewisham conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Lewisham Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham
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?
Lewisham 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
Do you have to pay Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property?
You are exempt from having to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) provided that the property you've sold is your primary/main residence.
If you do own more than one property, you'll have to pay CGT but you can choose which property carries the exemption.
