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Selling property in South Kensington
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in South Kensington, 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 South Kensington conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in South Kensington?
South Kensington is a particularly affluent district of West London and buildings increased greatly there in the mid-19th century.
It is an excellent mix of cosmopolitan shops and streets, well-known venues and organisations and beautiful Victorian residential properties and squares.
Landmarks and attractions around the locale include Hyde Park, the Science and Natural History Museums, Imperial College, the Brompton Oratory, Boujis night club (now closed) and the Royal Albert Hall.
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney St, Chelsea, London SW3 6NP
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Rd, Chelsea, London SW10 9NH
St Mary's Hospital, Praed St, Paddington, London W2 1NY
South Kensington has a tube station served by Piccadilly, District and Circle Lines. Long-distance coaches are available at nearby Victoria Coach Station. There are numerous London buses and London Victoria overland train terminus for travel to South England destinations. By road, the Cromwell Road (which leads variously to the A4 and M4 for motorway travel) is nearby and other large London thoroughfares.
Distance to Airports from South Kensington
| Airport | Miles by car |
| London City Airport | 9.88 miles |
| London Heathrow Airport | 12.53 miles |
| London Gatwick Airport | 24.19 miles |
Queen's Gate School, 131-133 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5LE
Kensington Park School, 59 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5JP
Holland Park School, Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill Rd, London W8 7AF
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around South Kensington
Our South Kensington conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including London, Westminster, Chelsea, Battersea, Fulham, Shepherd's Bush and Vauxhall.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Brunswick Gardens W8 4AL
- Palace Gate W8 5NF
- Palace Gardens Terrace W8 4SB
- North End House W14 0RS
- Masbro Road W14 0LS
- 100 Sydney Street (2 & 3 bedroom apartments) – Sydney Street, Chelsea, SW3.
Marketed by CDL Homes.
South Kensington Property Prices
| Average property price in South Kensington | £2,213,716 |
| Population of South Kensington | 19,725 (2001) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Are online licensed conveyancing solicitors better than property lawyers near me?
Before the internet, finding licensed conveyancing solicitors in South Kensington would have meant to consult your local phone book or just to take a walk down your local high street to find your conveyancer near me.
Before modern ID checking processes your local conveyancing solicitors would need to meet with you to confirm who you were as part of their money laundering and 'Know Your Client' checks. Solicitors previously used to use this time to talk through the transaction with you in person - a part of the service that was reflected within their conveyancing solicitors fees. Nowadays, the legal process can be completed without face to face meetings, using online ID checks and new ID process.
Although local knowledge becomes critical when choosing your RICS surveyor for a home buyers survey, your solicitor in all cases, whether they're a 'conveyancing solicitor near me' or based 200 miles away will carry out their work by processing documents and forms, virtually all of which can be obtained and/or transmitted electronically.
There is no need for them to be based locally and you'll usually find that conveyancer near me will charge extra for business conducted 'in person' - such as ID checking - and that their time is better spent focusing on the paperwork. We welcome queries from our clients and act as the vital link between you and your solicitor which means you're kept in the loop and your solicitor is fully engaged in getting your move completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in South Kensington?
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 South Kensington has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the South Kensington 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 South Kensington 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 South Kensington - speak to The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale South Kensington - check with The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea if they are running a DMS scheme
South Kensington conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our South Kensington Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in South Kensington 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 South Kensington 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 South Kensington 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 South Kensington
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?
South Kensington 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 long does it take to complete after exchange?
The average time between exchange and completion is a week. However, it can be as long as both you and the seller are happy with.
The completion can take place on the same day as exchange. Still, you should only do this in an emergency as timing drawing down mortgage funds, getting ready for completion and moving out all on the same day is incredibly difficult.
Find out more about - How long between exchange of contracts and completion
