Do the conveyancing solicitors identified through your search tool carry out auction conveyancing in Tooting?

We know of a few niche lawyers we can put you in touch with those specialising in auction conveyancing. Tooting is one of the many locations in which our lawyers have a presence.

I am told that my conveyancing solicitors will need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Tooting. My lender is Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 25/2/2025, the requirements read as follows :

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our home are lost. The lawyers who dealt with the conveyancing in Tooting 10 years ago are no longer around. What are my next steps?

You no longer need to have the physical deeds to prove you are the registered proprietor of land or premises, given that the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.

We're FTB’s - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent informed us that the vendor will only issue a contract if we use the agent's recommended lawyers as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local conveyancer who is familiar with conveyancing in Tooting

We suspect that the owner is unaware of this request. If they desire ‘a quick sale', turning down a genuine purchaser is likely to cause more damage than good. Contact the sellers directly and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you do not need to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to appoint your own,trusted Tooting conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will earn the estate agent a kickback or meet his conveyancing targets set by HQ.

If all goes to plan we aim to complete the sale of our £225,000 apartment in Tooting next Tuesday. The managing agents has quoted £420 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years service charge statements. Is the landlord entitled to charge an administration fee for a flat conveyance in Tooting?

Tooting conveyancing on leasehold maisonettes usually necessitates fees being levied by management companies :

Completing conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Tooting Supplying insurance information Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale

Your lawyer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Tooting leasehold property is £350. For Tooting conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are required to supply the information.

I have given up trying to purchase the freehold in Tooting. Can this matter be resolved via the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?

in cases where there is a absentee landlord or where there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to judgment on the price payable.

An example of a Lease Extension case for a Tooting residence is 14 Nutwell Street in January 2014. The premium payable for the acquisition of a new lease of the subject premises was in the sum of £30,523 This case was in relation to 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 62.94 years.