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Selling property in Lee
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Lee, 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 Lee conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Lee?
Lee is a suburban district in South East London, within the Boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham, 8 miles south-east of London's centre. Eltham lies to its east and Lewisham lies to its north-west. St Margaret's Church is a prominent local landmark because it is the burial place of 3 Astronomer Royals: Edmond Halley, Nathaniel Bliss and John Pond. Pub fans might like to try the Lord Northbrook on Burnt Ash Road - it's a renovated Victorian pub with quiz nights, live acoustic sessions and DJs.
BMI The Blackheath Hospital, 40-42 Lee Terrace, London, SE3 9UD
University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham High St, SE13 6LH
Beckenham Hospital, 379-397 Croydon Rd, Beckenham, BR3 3QL
Lee Train Station provides links to Central London (London Bridge, London Charing Cross and London Cannon Street) and Gravesend. The A406 South Circular Road and A20 both run through the area.
Distance to Airports from Lee
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Heathrow | 28 miles |
| Luton | 34 miles |
| Gatwick | 37 miles |
Prendergast Vale School, Elmira St, Prendergast Vale, London, SE13 7BN
Colfe's School, Horn Park Ln, London, SE12 8AW
Prendergast - Hilly Fields College, Adelaide Ave, London, SE4 1LE
Fixed quote for our legal costs plus a budget-friendly breakdown of third-party disbursements.
Your sale or purchase is protected by our no sale, no fee guarantee.
Our panel solicitors are pre-approved to work with 99% of mortgage lenders in England & Wales.
Panel solicitors accredited by the Conveyancing Quality Scheme; regulated by the SRA.
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Lee
Our Lee conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Hither Green, Kidbrooke, Horn Park, Blackheath, Grove Park, Eltham and New Eltham.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Manor Lane, Lee, London, SE12 8LR
- flat 3, 350 Lee High Road, Lewisham, SE12 8RS
- 57 Chinbrook Road, London SE12 9TT
- 114 Manor Lane, Lee, London, SE12 8LR
- 32 Winn Road, SE12 9EX
- Ladybird (apartments) – off Eltham Road, Horn Park.
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Lee Property Prices
| Average property price in Lee | £512,387 |
| Population of Lee | 14,573 (2011) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
What are the Pros and Cons of using a licensed conveyancing solicitor in Lee?
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 Lee?
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 Lee has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Lee 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 Lee 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 Lee - speak to London Borough of Lewisham to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Lee - check with London Borough of Lewisham if they are running a DMS scheme
Lee conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Lee Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Lee 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 Lee?
If there are 80 years or less on the Lee 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 Lee; 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 Lee
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, right to buy, discount market sales, or purchase of land. The No Sale No fee only protects the main solicitor's fee. All Additional Fixed Fees are payable in full. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy.
What are the conveyancing costs?
Lee 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.
