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Selling property in Sevenoaks
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Sevenoaks, 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 Sevenoaks conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Sevenoaks?
Sevenoaks is in western Kent, 21 miles south-east of London's centre, and is a town with rural aspects all around. It is the district's principal town of the same name, followed by Swanley and Edenbridge.
Ightham Mote in Mote Road is an excellent place to visit - it's a medieval moated manor house owned by the National Trust and is well-run, has fantastic gardens and brilliant guides to its history. Knole House, set in a 1,000-acre park and one of England's largest houses, is also worth a visit. Children can enjoy a hidden animal house trail there, while adults can enjoy the acclaimed collection of paintings.
Sevenoaks Hospital, Hospital Rd, Sevenoaks, TN13 3PG
Cygnet Hospital Godden Green, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, TN15 0JR
Sevenoaks Medical Centre, Beadle House, London Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 2JD
Sevenoaks has fast train links with Central London via Bromley and England's south coast via Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. The M25 is nearby for access to the motorway network.
Distance to Airports from Sevenoaks
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Gatwick | 23.3 miles |
| Heathrow | 44.7 miles |
| Stansted | 52.5 miles |
Sevenoaks School, High St, Sevenoaks, TN13 1HU
Walthamstow Hall, Holly Bush La, Sevenoaks, TN13 3UL
The Judd School, Brook Street, Tonbridge, TN9 2PN
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Sevenoaks
Our Sevenoaks conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including London, Croydon, Tonbridge, Orpington, Tunbridge Wells, Caterham and Bromley.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Birch Place, Oak Hill Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1AB
- 17 Redwood Place Morewood Close Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2BE
- Box Cottage, Badsell Road, Five Oak Green, Kent, TN12 6RB
- 2 Cryals Court, Cryals Road, Matfield, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 7HP
- Seal Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 5AR
- Prime Place (apartment) – Bourchier Cl, Sevenoaks.
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Sevenoaks Property Prices
| Average property price in Sevenoaks | £766,800 |
| Population of Sevenoaks | 18,588 (2001) |
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 Sevenoaks?
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 Sevenoaks has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks - speak to Sevenoaks District Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Sevenoaks - check with Sevenoaks District Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Sevenoaks conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Sevenoaks Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks?
We have specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors in Sevenoaks to handle your sale & purchase of a leasehold property, as well as lease extensions and creation, sale, or purchase of a Sevenoaks share of freehold property.
Due to the additional legal work surrounding the lease and terms, your quote will be calculated based on the tenure, so as long as you give us the correct details when getting your Sevenoaks leasehold inclusive, fixed fee, conveyancing quotes with the simple form above, this will be included in your initial quote, not a surprise addition later on. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Sevenoaks
Kent, romantically described as 'the garden of England', is a coastal county in England's south-eastern corner. Because it borders Greater London, it is classed as one of the home counties. It contains the Weald and the North Downs.
Kent's county town is Maidstone. Other large cities include Gillingham, Chatham, Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Margate, Dartford and Gravesend.
Kent has many port towns including Dover, Folkestone and Margate. Adjacent counties include East Sussex, Surrey, Essex (across the River Thames) and, as stated earlier, Greater London. Curiously, Kent used to contain an enclave north of the River Thames until 1965, which equates now to the E16 postcode area and which has been reclassified as part of the London Borough of Newham. JMW Turner, the great impressionist painter, spent part of his childhood in Margate and regularly returned there in later life. The coastline of East Kent is regarded as the inspiration for many of his works, particularly his fantastic seascapes.
**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?
Sevenoaks 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 you pull out after exchange of contracts?
In simple terms, you can pull out after exchange of contracts, whether you're a buyer or a seller, but the law in England and Wales treats these sides very differently.
As a buyer, you can only exchange if you've transferred your deposit monies into the seller's solicitor's account. This is normally 10% of the property's selling price, although a lower percentage can be agreed with the seller. If you pull out, you stand to lose 10% of the selling price under the law, even if you paid over an agreed deposit of less than 10%. The seller can also sue for losses resulting from the breach of contract.
As a seller, you could be sued for losses resulting from breach of contract. So, from a buyer's perspective, they might sue the seller for items like mortgage costs (product fee, valuation fee, etc.), survey costs and any deposit paid over for removals.
Therefore there are consequences for pulling out after exchange of contracts, however these clearly fall more heavily on the buyer pulling out rather than the seller.
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